Malcolm Potts

David Malcolm Potts (8 January 1935 – 25 April 2025) was a British human reproductive scientist and professor of public health at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Potts was the first holder of the Fred H. Bixby-endowed chair in Population and Family Planning and founding director of the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability at the School of Public Health.

Life and career Potts was born in Sunderland, England on 8 January 1935. and Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World (co-written with Thomas Hayden, 2008). He worked as a consultant to the World Bank and the British, American, Canadian and Egyptian governments.

He served as: Founding Director, The Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability, 1992–2013. Board member, Population Services International, Washington, DC. Board Member, Venture Strategies for Health and Development, Berkeley, CA. Chair, Division of Community Health and Human Development, School of Public Health. Chair, Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, University of California, Berkeley. Head, Global Health Specialty Area, School of Public Health. Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, and had four children. He died from Alzheimer's disease in Berkeley, California on 25 April 2025, at the age of 90.