Family planning and reproductive health have been global health priorities for decades. New products and innovative methods for reaching couples and women who want to plan when and how many children they have are changing the family planning landscape. This month on A Deeper Look, Patrick Fine talks with Ann Starrs, Director of Family Planning at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, about the ways she and the Foundation are promoting policies, partnerships and products to increase access to contraceptives and improve the user experience. Starrs discusses the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's new family planning strategy.

The future of family planning and reproductive health

There are two essential ingredients to effective collaboration on human development challenges: trust and humility. In this final episode of A Deeper Look podcast, Patrick Fine takes the interviewee seat, and Dr. Otto Chabikuli, FHI 360’s Director of Global Health, Population and Nutrition, asks for Patrick’s reflections on what constitutes good practice in human development. They discuss the evolution of development, the crosscutting challenges ahead and the need to approach development work collaboratively and with respect.

FHI 360's Chief Executive Officer Patrick Fine hosts conversations with creative thinkers, respected leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.

A perspective on “good” development

Pakachere Institute of Health and Development Communications (IHDC) and FHI 360 have been partners since 2015, working to expand access to HIV services among key populations in Malawi. In 2019, Pakachere began receiving direct funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Since then, the organizations have continued to partner and FHI 360 has supported Pakachere IHDC as it grows. 

In this conversation, Amita Mehrotra and David Chilongozi (of FHI 360’s Meeting Targets and Achieving Epidemic Control, or EpiC, project) and Simon Sikwese and Grace Kumwenda (of Pakachere IHDC) discuss the partnership and explore the importance of locally led development.

Partnering for growth

A Deeper Look podcast explores what works and what doesn’t in global development.

FHI 360's CEO, Patrick Fine, hosts conversations with creative thinkers, respected leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.

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The future of family planning and reproductive health

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