Belle Taylor-McGhee

Name: Belle Taylor-McGhee

Organization / Company: Pacific Institute for Women’s Health (PIWH)

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Belle
Taylor-McGhee is the President and CEO of the Pacific Institute for Women’s
Health (PIWH).  PIWH works to
promote women’s access to safe and effective contraception and other
reproductive technologies, including medical abortion.  Additionally, PIWH promotes access to
sexuality education that includes contraception information, as well as
supports women’s and girls’ leadership in protecting their sexual and
reproductive health.

In
May 2008, PIWH merged with Pharmacy Access Partnership, an Oakland,
California-based center of the independent non-profit Public Health Institute.
Prior to the merger, Ms. Taylor-McGhee served as executive director of Pharmacy
Access Partnership. Under the newly merged organization, Pharmacy Access
Partnership is a center of PIWH.  

Ms.
Taylor-McGhee is recognized as a national leader in women’s health and
reproductive rights. She has led many state and national initiatives to secure
women’s autonomy in private medical decisions and currently serves as the
president of the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom (CCRF).  CCRF is a statewide coalition of more
than 60 organizations dedicated to ensuring that every woman has community
support and access to make informed personal decisions about her physical and
sexual health. Additionally, Ms. Taylor-McGhee serves on the Board of Directors
for EngenderHealth, an international NGO that works to improve sexual and
reproductive healthcare for women and men worldwide. She is a member of the
Dean’s Board of Advisors at the School of Pharmacy, University of California,
San Francisco.

Prior
to her role at Pharmacy Access Partnership, Ms. Taylor-McGhee served as
executive director of the Department on the Status of Women for the City and
County of San Francisco – appointed by former San Francisco Mayor Willie L.
Brown, Jr.  Before this
appointment, she served as executive director of CARAL Pro-Choice America; and
as director of communications for NARAL Pro-Choice America in Washington,
D.C.  Ms. Taylor-McGhee is a former
investigative television news reporter with more than a dozen years of
broadcast news experience in Seattle, Tampa/St. Petersburg, and Alabama news markets.  

Ms. Taylor-McGhee’s work and
insights have been profiled in countless newspapers and national publications
throughout the United States.  She
has been an invited lecturer on women’s reproductive health issues at Stanford
University School of Medicine and the Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program.  Ms. Taylor-McGhee completed the 2004
“Women and Power: Leadership in a New World” executive program at Harvard
University at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in
journalism and broadcasting from the University of Alabama.