American non-profit research organisation with its headquarters in New York, founded in 1952 by John D. Rockefeller III and working in reproductive health, family planning, HIV, gender and adolescent wellbeing in more than forty countries. Runs social science and public health research programmes and a biomedical research centre that has developed contraceptive technologies, among them the copper intrauterine device, the Norplant and Jadelle implants and the Annovera contraceptive vaginal system, and works on microbicides and multipurpose prevention technologies with partners in industry and government.
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