When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

If we succeed in learning more about how to expand program innovations from pilot projects so that they have broader program impact, this should be very relevant for public health initiatives in Michigan and elsewhere in the US.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't ever be a fantastic leader. You have to take risks, and you also have to go against conventional wisdom, because conventional wisdom doesn't make for startling advances in society.

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.

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 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.