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• International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers. When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

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  Agency, Roots, Innovation

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• 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.

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  Real, Team, Assessment

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• In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

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  Effort, Intellectual, World

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• We are trying to discover where this approach could have the greatest possibility of large-scale impact. We have to choose wisely and see where there is greatest interest and need.

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  Impact, Trying, Needs

  "An Interview with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grantee Ruth Simmons". The Journal of International Institute Interview, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2001.

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• We felt that the Gates Foundation looked at our track record and our publications and decided that "this is persuasive; this needs to be done. Let's see what they can do."

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  Track, Done, Records

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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

  Ruth Simmons

  Roots, Innovation, Working Together

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• It all started in India in the late 60s when I began helping my husband George, who was in the population field, evaluate the introduction of the intrauterine contraceptive device. At that time the IUD was considered to be the panacea for India's population problem. George's dissertation was focused on population and he became interested in the question of this new technology and how people were responding to it.

  Ruth Simmons

  Husband, Technology, Population Problem

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.

  Ruth Simmons

  Government, Growth, Littles

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• 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.

  Ruth Simmons

  Opportunity, Organization, People

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of reproductive health care. We are very grateful to have received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue our work.

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  Grateful, Support, Innovation

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• In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between applied research and policy and program development. Recently there has been less interest in these issues and we feel that this interest must be rekindled.

  Ruth Simmons

  Issues, Innovation, Development

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• 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.

  Ruth Simmons

  Latin, Winning, Men

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• 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.

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  Successful, Giving, Innovation

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• Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.

  Ruth Simmons

  Husband, Ideas, Social Taboos

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• We hope to organize team residencies and a conference bringing together professionals from Latin America and from other groups around the world who are also focusing on this issue. We want to bring them together so we can learn from each other, and then widely publicize our conclusions.

  Ruth Simmons

  Latin, Team, America

  "An Interview with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grantee Ruth Simmons". The Journal of International Institute Interview, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2001.

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• High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program managers when they make decisions about contraceptive introduction or other aspects of program development in reproductive health.

  Ruth Simmons

  Voice, People, Decision

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that 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.

  Ruth Simmons

  Successful, Agency, Giving

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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

  Ruth Simmons

  Trust, Corporations, Responsible

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• Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

  Ruth Simmons

  School, California, Boss

  "I Was Impossible, but Then I Saw How to Lead". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. December 3, 2011.

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• I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

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  Children, My Family, Disputes

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

  Ruth Simmons

  Education, Pain, Priorities

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