Fellowship

The RSE Fellowship comprises around 1,800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland. This range of expertise within the Fellowship places us in a unique position to provide an informed, interdisciplinary response to issues facing Scotland and internationally.

Our Fellows from academia, business and public service are among the most distinguished in their fields. We engage and connect nationally and internationally to share knowledge and tackle the most pressing challenges of the modern world.

Elected: 2014
Discipline: Clinical Sciences
Professor Anna Glasier
Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh
Professor Anna Glasier was Director of Family Planning & Well Woman Services and Lead Clinician for Sexual Health in Lothian. Her research career is in reproductive health, particularly contraception. Anna is a world expert on emergency contraception and her work was instrumental in making it available in the UK and other countries without medical prescription. She works on developing new contraceptives and on better ways to deliver women’s healthcare, including contraception and abortion. She is an advisor to the Scottish Government, the pharmaceutical industry and a number of international organisations, including the Population Council in New York and the World Health Organisation.
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