About the Author

Warren Martin Hern is a physician, epidemiologist, and photographer living in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and son, who is thinking seriously about becoming a pirate. Warren has lived in Colorado since he was brought here by his parents at the age of three and has lived here mostly since then. He is a 1956 graduate of Englewood High School, a 1961 graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder (speech, anthropology, and chemistry), and a 1965 graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He received his Master of Public Health and Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in 1971 and 1988, respectively. Hern has worked, traveled, taught, and done epidemiologic research in various countries in Latin America since 1962, and he served as a Peace Corps physician in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from 1966 to 1968.

Dr. Hern practices medicine in Boulder, where his clinical specialty is abortion services, and is he is professor adjunct in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He also holds an appointment as assistant clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. He is the author of numerous scientific and professional publications, including a medical textbook, Abortion Practice. His photographs have been published in and on the covers of Sierra Club publications; National Geographic books; Natural History magazine; a collection of top wildlife photographs, Celebration of Life (Mexico City: Agrupacion Sierra Nevada, 1997); and others.