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Cat McKaig

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Dr. Catharine McKaig provides overall leadership and supervision for MCHIP's integrated family planning programming in more than 14 countries worldwide. Dr. McKaig is recognized as a global leader in family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH), bringing 20 years of experience to the field and vast technical expertise and depth of knowledge in FP/RH best practices and evidence base. With a doctoral degree in maternal and child health from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Dr. McKaig has demonstrated her capacity to lead a global FP/RH project since being named Project Director for Jhpiego’s $20M ACCESS-FP associate award in 2006.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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