I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

Women are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.

Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn't die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.