2006 MAQie Awards

Maximizing Access and Quality (MAQie) Awards are presented annually at the Global Health Mini-University for Outstanding Contributions to Make the World a Better Place.

MAQie Award for Field-based Leadership

This year's MAQie Award for Field-based Leadership was given to Dr. Binta Keita: "For her enthusiastic and unflagging dedication to improving the quality of and extending access to family planning and reproductive health services in Mali, including the creation of a national reproductive health working group and annual family planning action plan, the institutionalization of an annual nationwide family planning campaign, support for community mobilization and training, and the introduction of new and innovative tools and ideas."

Pictured at left, Madame Fatou Camara Keita accepts the MAQie Award for Dr. Keita.

MAQie Award for Global Technical Leadership

Mihira Karra accepts the MAQie Award for Global Technical Leadership on Roberto Rivera's behalf, presented by Jim Shelton. Photo by David Alexander/CCP

This year's winner of the MAQie Award for Global Technical Leadership was Dr. Roberta Rivera: "For more than four decades of dedicated and productive work to improve access to and the quality of family planning, including: research on new and existing contraceptive methods; significant contributions to WHO's Medical Eligibility Criteria and Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, and the International Family Planning Clinical Handbook; as well as notable contributions to revitalization of the IUD, development of LAM, and high quality protection of human research subjects."

Pictured at right, Mihira Karra accepts the MAQie Award for Dr. Rivera.


	Supporting research and evidence-based interventions to promote access and quality of reproductive health and family planning services