If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

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.

I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much.

Major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action.

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

If policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.

It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.