Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection

Rose E. Frisch is an associate professor of population sciences emerita at the Harvard School of Public Health and a member of the research faculty of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation. She is the editor of Adipose Tissue and Reproduction and has written widely on female fertility and on the natural fertility of populations.