Lois Quam (CEO and President of Pathfinder International) visited the James P Grant School of Public Health on 6 June to conduct a seminar on “Gender Equality and Family Planning”. Speaking to keen practitioners and students of MPH, Ms Quam talked about advancing women's health globally. For 60 years, Pathfinder has changed the course of history for millions of women around the world. In her talk, Ms. Quam reflected on what is happening with women's health, family planning, and gender equality in Bangladesh and other countries where Pathfinder operates. Diving further, she reflected that lack of access to proper maternal health services takes away a woman’s reproductive choices, thus hampering her potential and development as an individual.
Named three times to FORTUNE’s list of the most influential women leaders in business, Lois Quam is an associate on the faculty at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management.