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

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.

Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no support from the health clinics with their problems. Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

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.

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

I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has given me the opportunity to insist that 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.