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Mary Beth Powers
December 3, 2001
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Organizations:
Save
the Children
Mary Beth Powers
is Save the Children's Senior Reproductive Health
and Policy Advisor. In this capacity, she
plays a key role in developing programs that
address community level reproductive health
needs, including family planning, safe motherhood
and adolescent sexual and reproductive
health. She oversees a team of clinicians
and professionals who provide technical advice to
reproductive health programs for women and
adolescents in over twenty-five countries and seh
lead policy and planning efforts on women's
health for Save the Children. Ms. Powers
has had a distinguished career with
non-governmental organizations (including CARE
and Catholic Relief Services) and organized the
NGO Forum at the UN's International Conference on
Population and Development in Cairo in
1994. Ms. Powers has a B.S. in Foreign
Service from Georgetown University and a Masters
in Publish Health from the University of
Michigan. Besides her work with Save the
Children, she is the mother of three sons and a
daughter.
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