Sharon Camp

Sharon Lee Camp (November 7, 1943 – October 25, 2025) was an American policy expert and women's reproductive health activist. She served as the CEO and president of the Guttmacher Institute for ten years until her retirement in 2013. A women's reproductive health campaigner, she was the force behind making the Plan B Contraceptive Pill available in the United States.

Early life and education Sharon Camp was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, on November 7, 1943 to June (née Stout) and Albert Camp, which was the nearest hospital to her parents’ house across the Delaware river in New Jersey. She was on the yearbook staff, was a tour guide and played badminton as well as taking part in Model United Nations. Whilst undertaking her Ph.D, Camp was elected to serve on the Democratic State Central Committee for Charles County, which included sitting on the Drug Abuse Committee and the local Mental Health Advisory Committee. She later credited this experience as getting her interested in state health activities. Camp ultimately became Senior Vice President. Half of the proceeds from the emergency contraceptive was reinvested in the nonprofits which had financed the development, with the other fifty percent directed into a charitable trust.

In 2003, Camp moved to the Guttmacher Institute as president and CEO. She led the global reproductive health research and policy organization for a decade.

Camp chaired the boards of Family Health International, the National Council for International Health (now the Global Health Council), and the International Center for Research on Women, and was founding Chair of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project.

Legacy Camp gave Pomona college an unrestricted bequest sixty years after she graduated.