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Gary Darmstadt

Title Director of Family Health
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Dr. Gary L. Darmstadt leads the Family Health Division of the foundation, comprising the Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH), Family Planning, and Nutrition strategic project teams.

He joined the Global Health Program at the foundation as Senior Program Officer for Newborn Health in February 2008 and became Team Lead for Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH) and Interim Deputy Director of Integrated Health Solution Development in October 2008. He is also an active member of the Global Health India team.

Posts By Gary Darmstadt

Family Health "Check Up" 2013: Lessons Learned

As we prepared for our annual strategy reviews in Family Health, we took the time to reflect on what we’ve learned over the past year.

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Family Health "Check Up": Looking Forward

This year’s strategy review process provided an opportunity to look back and reflect on successes and failures in an effort to improve our performance and increase our impact in Family Health. As a result, our outlook includes two cross-cutting areas that we found critical for achieving lasting impact at scale.

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Family Planning Taking Its Place on the Global Stage

Our collective intention is to cultivate and promote a global movement for family planning. It is through partnership, collaboration, and the participation of diverse stakeholders that we, as a community, can transform family planning.

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Hope for Women in a Remote Village in India

Imagining a future for you children should not be an amazing, surprising idea. But three years ago, on a similar visit to Bihar, I didn’t see hope. I saw extreme poverty, people living a daily existence, striving to survive that day. Now, there is hope. Mothers have embraced the expectation that things will get better.

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Family Health Check Up: Nutrition for a Healthy Start to Life

In partnership with organizations which work to improve nutrition for children in the poorest countries, we have seen some exciting achievements. Though many challenges remain, these events (and many others over the course of the year) reaffirm our strategic direction to focus our investments on healthy growth, breastfeeding and complementary feeding, and control of selected micronutrient deficiencies.

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