Our Economies Are Built On The Backs

Birth Control Has Almost Completely And Totally Disappeared From The Global Health Agenda, And The Victims Of This Paralysis Are The People Of Sub-saharan Africa And South Asia.

When I Look At 225 Million Women Who Want Contraceptives, And Then I Look At The 52 Million Unintended Pregnancies That Could Be Avoided By Addressing This Unmet Need, Where Can We Have The Biggest Impact With Our Voice, Our Dollars, Our Partners? It's On Contraceptives. I Would Rather Address The Problem Upstream.

Human-centered Design. Meeting People Where They Are And Really Taking Their Needs And Feedback Into Account. When You Let People Participate In The Design Process, You Find That They Often Have Ingenious Ideas About What Would Really Help Them. And It’s Not A Onetime Thing; It’s An Iterative Process.

I've Travelled Extensively In The Last 16 Years - To Slums In Bangladesh, To Townships In South Africa, To All Kinds Of Places In India, Etc. When I Would Go And Talk To Villagers About Something Like Vaccines, If I Stayed Long Enough, The Women Would Bring The Conversation Around And Say: "what About This Family Planning Tool? We Can't Keep Having The Number Of Children We're Having."

I Realized That The Only Way To Get Into A Good College Was To Be Valedictorian Or Salutatorian. So That Was My Goal.