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We are excited to announce a new guest blogger joining us from Management Sciences in Health - Sylvia Vriesendorp. We are lucky to have someone with a wealth of experience and expertise in the area of leadership and management. In addition Sylvia will certainly add diversity to the thought on this blog and challenge our own thinking in terms of where management fits into the picture (along side and versus other things like technology or technical solutions). So I am looking forward to her posts.

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Introductory post by Sylvia Vriesendorp, our new guest blogger:

“We want better leadership!” It is an often heard call in health programs around the world. Yet when asking those who make this call what exactly they’d like to see done or changed that would produce the missing leadership, the voices stop. Let’s look at reproductive health: one woman dies every minute in pregnancy and childbirth; 99% of these women live in developing countries (UNFPA).These women are not dying of medical mysteries; they are dying because they do not have access to simple, inexpensive, life saving interventions.They are dying because they do not have access to modern contraception methods, even when there are supplies in the country and trained staff to dispense them.

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