One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

There are hundreds, even thousands of remarkable pilot or experimental projects in all fields - in agriculture, health, education. But where do these pilots take us? Do they lead to change on a broader scale? If not, how can we ensure that they have broader impact?

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.