Podcasts about population services international

“I was instilled with this idea that I come from a lot of privilege and lot of ease in my own life, and to use that as power to clear the barriers for others to exercise their own privilege and power.” Rena Greifinger has used her power and privilege to help some of the most underrepresented and marginalized people in the world. Director of Individual Philanthropy and Managing Director of the Maverick Collective by Population Services International or PSI, Rena joined PSI twelve years ago with a mission of working for the dignity of people affected by stigmatized issues. Whether that's HIV/AIDS or helping women get access to contraception and family planning or helping communities upgrade sanitation, Rena puts people at the center. What you'll hear in this episode: 00:00 Rena's background and passion for social justice 08:00 Introduction to Population Services International (PSI) 13:27 The Maverick Collective: investing in women and girls 18:21 Addressing gender-based violence 23:03 Including men and boys in the conversation for gender equality 24:56 Challenges and rewards of working in different countries and cultures 25:37 The power of individual philanthropy and innovation 28:40 Engaging high-net-worth women donors through Maverick Collective 45:18 The interconnectedness of social issues 49:04 Taking action and recognizing privilege in living a moral life Find out more about the Maverick Collective and PSI on their websites: www.psi.org and maverickcollective.org. Get to know Rena Greifinger on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/renagreifinger. Musings About Ourselves and Other Strangers is the podcast for the non-profit organization The Life You Can Save and is hosted by co-founder Charlie Bresler. Please check out other episodes as well as our website for ideas on how you too can extend your impact for good in the world: www.thelifeyoucansave.org.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: #GivingTuesday: My Giving Story and Some of My Favorite Charities, published by Kyle J. Lucchese on November 29, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Happy Giving Tuesday! A friend inspired me to share my giving story and some of my favorite charities. I was raised to love all and to give generously with my time, money, and spirit, aspirations I strive to live up to. When I first read The Life You Can Save in 2009, I realized that I could and should be doing more to help others wherever they are. It wasn't until 2011 when I came across GiveWell and Giving What We Can that I really put these ideas into action. I pledged to donate at least 10% of my income to effective charities and was driven to study business in hopes that I could earn to give more (I still don't make "make much" but it is a lot from a global perspective). Though I believe significant systemic reforms are needed to create a more sustainable and equitable world, I continue to donate at least 10% of my income and use my career to support better todays and tomorrows for all beings. Between now and the end of the year, I will allocate my donations as follows: 20% - The Life You Can Save's Helping Women & Girls Fund: This fund is for donors who seek to address the disproportionate burden on women and girls among people living in extreme poverty. Donations to the fund are split evenly between Breakthrough Trust, CEDOVIP, Educate Girls, Fistula Foundation, and Population Services International. 20% - Animal Charity Evaluators' Recommended Charity Fund: This fund supports 11 of the most impactful charities working to reduce animal suffering around the globe. The organizations supported by the fund include: Çiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma Derneği, Dansk Vegetarisk Forening, Faunalytics, Fish Welfare Initiative, The Good Food Institute, The Humane League, Legal Impact for Chickens, New Roots Institute, Shrimp Welfare Project, Sinergia Animal, and the Wild Animal Initiative. 20% - Spiro: a new charity focused on preventing childhood deaths from Tuberculosis, fundraising for their first year. Donation details on Spiro's website here. Donations are tax-deductible in the US, UK, and the Netherlands. 15% - Giving What We Can's Risks and Resilience Fund: This fund allocates donations to highly effective organizations working to reduce global catastrophic risks. Funds are allocated evenly between the Long-Term Future Fund and the Emerging Challenges Fund. 10% - Founders Pledge's Climate Change Fund: This fund supports highly impactful, evidence-based solutions to the "triple challenge" of carbon emissions, air pollution, and energy poverty. Recent past recipients of grants from the Climate Change Fund include: Carbon180, Clean Air Task Force, TerraPraxis, and UN High Level Climate Champions. 10% - GiveDirectly: GiveDirectly provides unconditional cash transfers using cell phone technology to some of the world's poorest people, as well as refugees, urban youth, and disaster victims. According to more than 300 independent reviews, cash is an effective way to help people living in poverty, yet people living in extreme poverty rarely get to decide how aid money intended to help them gets spent. 5% - Anima International: Anima aims to improve animal welfare standards via corporate outreach and policy change. They also engage in media outreach and institutional vegan outreach to decrease animal product consumption and increase the availability of plant-based options. Other organizations whose work I have supported throughout the year include: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation EA Funds' Animal Welfare Fund, Global Health and Development Fund, Infrastructure Fund, and Long-Term Future Fund FairVote GiveWell's Top Charities Fund, All Grants Fund, and Unrestricted Fund Project on Government Oversight The Life You Can Save...

“It's a greater level of equal opportunity and respect that you are giving to the candidate when you keep your hiring process open to the candidate and tell them everything about the organisation as well.”Welcome to another episode of Shape of Work. In today's episode, our guest talks about Hiring the right people for the right job and the importance of diversity and inclusion. Our guest today is Devi Maheshwari, Chief Human Resources Officer at Pepper Money India, a consumer finance brand with a mission to serve the underserved. It is part of Pepper Financial Services Group, which has offices in India, Singapore, South Korea, Australia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.Devi has an overall work experience of fifteen years. She has worked at various organisations at Human resource roles such as Population Services International, Magic Bus India Foundation, FlexiLoans, Disprz, etc. She did her BA at Delhi University, her Master's Degree from Amity University, and her Executive Program in Human Resources Management from the Indian Institute of Management.Episode HighlightsHiring the right people for the right jobReducing subjectivity in the hiring processThe importance of diversity and inclusionWhat are the areas that don't need innovation?Follow Devi on LinkedinProduced by: Priya BhattPodcast Host: Archit SethiAbout Springworks:Springworks is a fully-distributed HR technology organisation building tools and products to simplify recruitment, onboarding, employee engagement, and retention. The product stack from Springworks includes:SpringVerify— B2B verification platformEngageWith— employee recognition and rewards platform that enriches company cultureTrivia — a suite of real-time, fun, and interactive games platforms for remote/hybrid team-buildingSpringRole — verified professional-profile platform backed by blockchain, andSpringRecruit — a forever-free applicant tracking system.Springworks prides itself on being an organisation focused on employee well-being and workplace culture, leading to a 4.8 rating on Glassdoor for the 200+ employee strength company.

When it goes well, giving birth can be a wonderful experience, but, when it goes wrong, it can be deadly for mother and child alike. Too often, where you live, your access to quality care, and in some places the color of your skin determines whether or not you live or die during birth.This episode features Jen Hatmaker, an American author, speaker, blogger, and television presenter, in conversation with Eva Lathrop, Global Medical Director for Population Services International, and Elaine Welteroth, an award-winning journalist, TV host, and author. Eva shares how almost 300,000 women die every year from childbirth and pregnancy, and almost all of them are preventable. Maternal deaths have been increasing in the United States and are high in low and middle income countries around the world, with Black and native women in the US (along with women who are pregnant and delivering over 40 and women who have preexisting medical conditions) being most at risk for complications and death during pregnancy. Better investments in quality antenatal care, prenatal care, interpartum care, and postpartum care can help prevent both maternal and neonatal deaths. Elaine shares how inequity in maternal deaths can be addressed by changing policy and improving the medical and insurance system (including supporting health workers) to deliver accessible and affordable quality care. Midwives provide unique support, respect, and care to their patients and are a promising solution.Make Me Care About is produced by Magnificent Noise in partnership with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.To learn more about our show: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/podcast/make-me-care-aboutFor more on The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's work: https://www.gatesfoundation.orgTo learn more about maternal mortality:Gender Equality Strategy: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/gender-equality/gender-equalityMaternal, Infant and Child Health: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/gender-equality/maternal-newborn-and-child-healthFor more on the work of our guest, Elaine Welteroth: https://www.elainewelteroth.com/Learn more about our host, Jen Hatmaker: https://jenhatmaker.comOur production staff includes Sabrina Farhi, Hiwote Getaneh, Julia Natt, and our sound designer Kristin Mueller. Our Executive Producer is Eric Nuzum and the host is Jen Hatmaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why is depression on the rise globally? We've all heard that social media is a big cause of depression, but what other factors might we have overlooked? Why are anxiety and depression so closely linked? What is group interpersonal therapy? How does it differ from cognitive behavioral therapy and other treatment modalities? Which languages lack an equivalent to the word "depression"?Sean Mayberry is a former diplomat and social marketer who believes that treating depression in women in Africa is the most simple and cost-effective way to address systemic poverty. Sean is the founder of StrongMinds, a social enterprise with the mission of improving women's mental health in Africa; and has served as a SOCAP Fellow, a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a Cordes Foundation Fellow, and a GLG Fellow. In addition to that, in 2020, he won the Humanitarian Award from the Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health. Prior to founding StrongMinds, Sean was the CEO of FXB International, an anti-poverty team active in Africa, and the COO for VisionSpring, which provides eyeglasses to low-income populations. Sean also worked for Population Services International as their Country Director in India and the Congo. For interest in partnering with StrongMinds or learning more, email Sean at sean@strongminds.org.

Why is depression on the rise globally? We've all heard that social media is a big cause of depression, but what other factors might we have overlooked? Why are anxiety and depression so closely linked? What is group interpersonal therapy? How does it differ from cognitive behavioral therapy and other treatment modalities? Which languages lack an equivalent to the word "depression"?Sean Mayberry is a former diplomat and social marketer who believes that treating depression in women in Africa is the most simple and cost-effective way to address systemic poverty. Sean is the founder of StrongMinds, a social enterprise with the mission of improving women's mental health in Africa; and has served as a SOCAP Fellow, a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a Cordes Foundation Fellow, and a GLG Fellow. In addition to that, in 2020, he won the Humanitarian Award from the Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health. Prior to founding StrongMinds, Sean was the CEO of FXB International, an anti-poverty team active in Africa, and the COO for VisionSpring, which provides eyeglasses to low-income populations. Sean also worked for Population Services International as their Country Director in India and the Congo. For interest in partnering with StrongMinds or learning more, email Sean at sean@strongminds.org.[Read more]

Christine Sow PhD MPH MA joined Humentum as CEO in 2019 following a 25-year career in international development. A seasoned convener and coalition-builder, Dr. Sow brings deep experience in leading member organizations, having relaunched the Global Health Council in 2013. Prior to joining Humentum, Dr. Sow led Palladium's development impact bond work in addition to providing oversight to their USAID-funded health portfolio; she also served as Chief Operating Officer of Population Services International, where she led global operations across more than 60 countries. Over the span of her career, Dr. Sow spent more than 14 years in West Africa with organizations including UNICEF and USAID. She holds a PhD in epidemiology from Tulane University and two Masters Degrees from the University of Michigan; she is fluent in French and English.   In the episode of Walk Talk Listen, Christine shares especially how her organization Humentum is trying to navigate in the changing NGO landscape while we also touch upon the usual typical WTL questions. I also talk with her about ESG (Environmental Social and Governance), and refers to the three key factors when measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a business or company.   Humentum can be found on twitter and instagram and they are also on LinkedIn and Facebook. Christine herself is on LinkedIn and Twitter.   The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here.    Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you. Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow @mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time! We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.

Ep: 146 Cary Alan Johnson discusses with Brad his premier novel, Desire Lines. The story of a black man coming of age in 1982 just as the AIDS crisis was on the rise. Podcast Website:   www.queerwritersofcrime.comCheck out Queer Writers of Crime Guest's blog.To cover the cost of producing Queer Writers of Crime, some of the links below are affiliate links. At zero cost to you, Brad will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.Get a Kindle Paperwhite:https://amzn.to/3KCfUuOCatch Cary's interesting blog post on the Queer Writers of Crime websitehttps://www.queerwritersofcrime.com/blog/mourning-in-america-cary-alan-johnson/Desire Lines by Cary Alan Johnsonhttps://amzn.to/3CA5Fa5Cary's Websitecaryalanjohnson.comCary Alan Johnson is an author, activist and Africanist raised in Brooklyn and currently living in Central Africa.  He studied writing with Wesley Brown, Jane Copper Alexis DeVeaux, Randall Kenan, Louise Meriwether, and Susan Scarf-Merrell.  He has a Bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.  A long-time innovator in national and international queer politics and cultural activism, he was involved in several ground-breaking organizations, including the Blackheart Collective, Gay Men of African Descent, and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Cary was a founding member of Other Countries, the Black gay arts collective that published 3 volumes of poetry, prose and visual art by Black gay men in the 80s and 90s.  His short stories, poetry and essays have appeared in anthologies and literary journals including Agni, RFD, Joseph Beam's Brother to Brother and E. Lynn Harris' Freedom in this Village.  A public health and HIV specialist with experience living and working in Guinea, Haiti, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe, Cary is currently the director for Population Services International in Burundi.  Desire Lines (Querelle Press, 2022) is his debut novel. Brad's Website: bradshreve.comSupport Requeered Tales  re-publishing award-winning, post-Stonewall gay and lesbian fiction — with a focus on mystery, literary and horror/sci-fi genres.requeeredtales.comKindly give to The Trevor Project, a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome two executive directors from the California Caregiver Resource Centers to share and discuss the tremendous work that the California Caregiver Resource Centers are doing to help support families and caregivers. The California Caregiver Resource Centers (CRCs) are a network of 11 centers throughout California which annually serve over 18,000 family caregivers, who are caring for adults affected by chronic and debilitating health conditions, degenerative diseases, or traumatic brain injury. Combined, the CRCs serve every county in California. Each CRC tailors its services to its geographic area, and offers family caregivers a range of core programs from counseling and care planning, to legal/financial consulting and respite, at low to no cost. John Beleutz, Executive Director of Del Mar Caregiver Resource Center and Michelle DiBuduo, Executive Director of Valley Caregiver Resource Center, are here to represent the CRCs. John, Executive Director of Del Mar CRC since 2006, has dedicated his career to delivering quality health and social services for vulnerable people. His work experience includes: Director of the Health Education and Training Center for the Community Health Partnership, Director of US Programs and Romania Country Representative for Population Services International, and Executive Director of the Pitt County AIDS Service Organization. Michelle, Executive Director of Valley CRC since 2011, has been involved with Valley CRC in many various capacities. In 2000, Michelle was introduced to Valley CRC through her mother's illness, and then she became a volunteer. From 2000-2011 she was involved in caregiver education, outreach and fundraising. Her background includes accounting for her families' companies for over 35 years.

Jeff Morrill co-founded Planet Subaru, “your undealership,” in 1998, and built it into one of the most successful privately-held car dealerships in the United States. He later started other businesses in automotive retail, real estate, telecommunications, and insurance that generate over $100,000,000 in annual revenue. Jeff is the author of Profit Wise: How to Make More Money in Business by Doing the Right Thing. He donates all income from the book to Population Services International, a global health organization with programs targeting malaria, child survival, HIV, and reproductive health. Jeff is a strict vegetarian, even though people tell him it's a big missed steak to eat that way. However, he does like his puns well done. Jeff lives with his wife, Julie, outside Charlottesville, Virginia, on a mountain he refers to as “The Morrill High Ground.” www.jeffmorrill.comwww.planetsubaru.com

How does US foreign policy impact women's reproductive health and rights around the world? How does America import its domestic abortion politics by creating foreign policies that deny women access to safe abortion and a full-range of reproductive healthcare? Those are the questions Anushay asks this week's guests who have taken the fight for safe abortion global with their work for Population Services International.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Phil Harvey (1938 - 2021), published by Gavin on March 4, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. An interesting philanthropist died late last year. He founded Population Services International and DKT, two massive global health charities (combined annual revenue now around $800m). To fund PSI, he started a for-profit condom company. (When the company started out, it was still illegal to sell condoms via mail order in the US, but they did it anyway as profitable civil disobedience.) They later expanded into sex toys and "erotica". I take it that his chosen industry is one reason he's not famous. Harvey used profits from Adam & Eve [the largest sex toy company in the US] to supplement support from international donors to protect millions of poor couples from unwanted pregnancies and HIV infections. In 2019, DKT International provided contraceptive protection to 49 million couples. "We tried to get our customers to buy leisure wear, shipbuilding kits, belt buckles, model airplanes, but they just yawned at that stuff. Every time we put something with erotic appeal in the catalog, the [phone] bells would ring." In 1986, Adam & Eve's offices in Carrboro, North Carolina were raided by 37 armed local law enforcement agents. For the next six years, Harvey defended himself against multiple indictments for obscenity... PSI were one of Givewell's initial top charities, for their very early and wide distribution of oral rehydration therapy (though GW's cost-benefit process was notably weak at that point). The Life You Can Save still has an (uncritical?) active page for them. They also provide other interventions which are often great (voluntary male circumcision for HIV prevention, malaria nets, maybe radio education). They have a homegrown evaluation method which I find kinda empty. An interesting angle is their many legal challenges. Their successes include opening up the contraception market and guaranteeing access for American young people; briefly having the global gag order on promoting abortion removed; and an eventually successful fight to allow NGOs to be neutral on sex work. Law is a giant slow steamroller, but it is involved in many lasting improvements to society, and these victories in particular seem well worth the cost. DKT were briefly considered by Givewell in 2008 but didn't stand out. Their own numbers put some emphasis on inputs (# condoms and kits sold), and I'm not sure where their output estimates come from (last year, "11 million pregnancies averted" and "49,000 maternal deaths averted"). They use an interesting narrow unit, the Couple-Year of Protection (contraceptive bang for your buck). This was probably an advanced method when it was developed in the 70s. Both organisations are notable for selling their products at cost rather than distributing them for free, under the assumption of inelastic demand, that recipients get to vote with their wallets, plus maybe increased use for things they themselves pay for. Clearly it also produces short-term cost savings. I think this idea was in favour in development economics in the 2000s but haven't heard much about it since. The obvious objection is that they're crowding out local production and sales. (But this wouldn't have been true in the 1970s.) I don't hear much about social enterprises in EA, possibly for good reasons. Overall I don't know about family planning as a cause. But it's a perennial top-10 cause in ordinary international development, and after more than a decade in the shade it has returned to EA attention. Regardless, PSI was an early adopter of many of the most effective global health interventions. (This was mostly after Harvey's tenure as president, so model his Shapley contribution as you will.) I'm not going to estimate Harvey's lifetime impact, but I hope someone does. Harvey's path - from ...

Rena Greifinger is an award-winning social entrepreneur, philanthropy leader, and advocate for women and girls. She leads Experiential Philanthropy at Population Services International and is Managing Director of the Maverick Collective, founded by Melinda Gates, Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Norway and PSI. In 2018, Rena founded Maverick Next, an immersive, two-year fellowship for emerging, women leaders. Rena joins Stef to talk about what it means to choose to give boldly. Produced by LegRoom CreativeEngineered by www.podcaststudioservices.com

It's been called "The Philanthropist's Dilemma" and the "Now or Forever" question: Do I spend down or form a foundation in perpetuity?This question of course comes with many others: is this really a binary decision? How should I find my own path? How do I take into account the size of my giving, my philanthropic strategy, my co-decision makers and my life plans?Join us in conversation with Peter Smitham, Chair of Atlantic Philanthropies, to learn how philanthropists can approach decision-making around whether to spend down or to give in perpetuity. The session will last 60 minutes.Peter Smitham was a founder of Permira (formerly Schroder Ventures), a global private equity firm where he fulfilled different roles for 30 years until 2015, including managing partner and chairman. Previously he had worked in the electronics industry, including a successful start-up in the 1970s. In 2000 Peter decided to “go plural” and include strategic philanthropy, social impact investing and emerging market private equity to his developed market private equity career with Permira. Since then he has served on the boards of MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes), New Philanthropy Capital, and Population Services International. In 2004 he joined the Board of Atlantic Philanthropies - a multibillion-dollar organisation with a limited life spend down philosophy created and funded by Chuck Feeney. Peter served as the Board Chair of Atlantic Philanthropies from 2011-2020. In 2004 Peter and wife Lynne founded their family foundation, The Kiawah Trust, which focuses on improving the lives of disadvantaged adolescent girls in India.

Debra and Mandana sit down with co-founder of The Maverick Collective and former SVP of Population Services International to discuss how Kate Roberts turned her career as a marketing and advertising executive into an opportunity to end extreme poverty. They also discuss how she built Youth AIDS and her trips with Debra to Africa.   Sakara is offering our listeners 20% off their first order when they go to Sakara.com/dissenters or enter code dissenters at checkout.   Produced by Dear Media. 

Phil founded DKT International in 1989 and served as its president through 2013. He is chairman of the DKT Board of Directors. He was co-founder (with Dr. Tim Black, CBE) of Population Services International and served as PSI president before founding DKT. Phil has been championing the benefits of social marketing for over four decades. Earlier he served as deputy director of CARE’s program in India. He is author of Let Every Child Be Wanted: How Social Marketing is Revolutionizing Contraceptive Use Around the World (1999) and of more than 20 published articles on international development, family planning and the use of social marketing techniques to promote family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention programs.

United in Hope: Tim Shriver + Population Services International

The following is a conversation between Karl Hofmann, President and CEO of PSI (Population Services International), and Denver Frederick, the host of The Business of Giving. In this interview, Karl Hofmann, President and CEO of PSI (Population Services International), shares the following: • How self-care can reduce the burden on fragile healthcare systems • The potential devastating impact that COVID-19 will have only the Global South • The importance of leaders showing empathy, flexibility, and optimism during a crisis

Gabriel Sebastian, Program Manager and Advisor to the Maverick Next Board at Population Services International (PSI) was born in South America, raised in Africa and educated in two different European nations. Pretty impressive, huh? He now lives in Mexico where he holds his current position at Population Services International (PSI).  In this short and sweet episode of T4C, he shares essential information on how to break into the field of global health and what to have under your belt before you start applying for larger and more serious positions. His parents are what got him interested in this career track. While you’ll need to make time for the longer interview with Gabriel -- T4C episode #17 -- to find out more about his personal career journey, this quick fix is perfect to find out how you can make your mark in this field. From college classes to little known facts, Gabriel Sebastian has you covered! Press Play on this episode of T4C Espresso Shots to get the details! The post 135: How to Break Into the Global Health Field w/ Gabriel Sebastian, Population Services International [Espresso Shots] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Michael Melcher is one of America’s leading executive coaches and is an expert on leadership and career development. He is currently a partner at Next Step Partners, a firm based in New York and San Francisco. He is also the host of the podcast, “Meanwhile: A Podcast to Improve Your Life.” He previously held positions in business, law and the U.S. Foreign Service. His clients have included Google, Goldman Sachs, Doctors Without Borders, Ford Foundation, Population Services International, National Resources Defense Council, and many others.

Rena Greifinger is the Senior Project Lead on MaverickNext and advises on Population Services International's (PSI) global youth strategy. Over the last five years as Youth & Girls Advisor, Rena helped establish PSI as a technical expert and thought-leader in private sector approaches to improving sexual and reproductive health systems for adolescents and young people. She spearheaded the organization's work in design-thinking, playing a lead role in its flagship project Adolescents 360. Rena has published and presented extensively on adolescent health globally. In 2009, she published a World Health Organization report on the psychosocial needs of adolescents living with HIV, inspiring her to start an award-winning program that builds leadership, life-skills and mentoring support for young people living with HIV in the U.S. She has served as Chair of the Youth, Health and Rights Coalition and the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, and currently sits on the board of Next Step. Rena holds a Master’s of Science from the Harvard School of Public Health where she was presented the Albert Schweitzer award which is given to the graduating students whose past work and current activities have been marked by a “reverence for life.”  If you’re interested in public health or international development or just how to be a maverick in your life press play and enjoy! The post 74: What It’s Like to Be in Global Health Focused on Youth & Girls w/ Rena Greifinger, Population Services International [Main T4C episode] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Gabriel (Gabe) Sebastian is a Program Manager in Mexico at Population Services International (PSI), a global health organization who has spent his entire life surrounded by philanthropists and social entrepreneurs all over the globe. He was born in Bolivia, and spent much of his childhood in Mozambique.  His parents were involved in philanthropy and founded a large social enterprise in Bolivia. So when it came time to go to college, Gabe thought nothing of traveling to the Netherlands to study International Business at Maastricht University. The post 17: How to Be a Real Maverick w/ Gabriel Sebastian, Population Services International (PSI) appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Jen Haile is the Senior Manager of Corporate Partnerships & Philanthropy at Population Services International. She manages a new philanthropic initiative aimed at catalyzing the next wave of social investors interested in improving the health and rights of girls and women worldwide.  Prior to joining PSI, Jen spent almost ten years in philanthropy at National Public Radio. She has been committed to international development since college, working in youth camps in Ukraine, volunteering with the IRC to resettle Sudanese refugees, and serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia.   Jen has an MBA in international business and nonprofit management from George Washington University.