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Helene D. Gayle

Helene D. Gayle (born August 16, 1955), is an American doctor who is the CEO of The Chicago Community Trust. She was president and CEO of McKinsey Social Initiative and the humanitarian organization CARE from 2006 to 2015. Gayle previously directed the HIV, TB, and Reproductive Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and spent 20 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), focusing primarily on HIV/AIDS.

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No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.

Brunt, Care, Community, Girl, Long, Matter

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

Educate, Girl, Nation, Nations

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

Half, Inspirational, Meaningful, Motivational, Population, World

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Becoming, Differences, Education, Income, Rich, Wealth

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

Discussion, Environment, Investment, Population, Putting, Rely

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

Children, Damage, Ecosystems, Think, Thinking

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

Community, Create, Environmental, Issues, Opportunity, Partnerships

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgiving, Learn, Move, Moving

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.

Connections, Degradation, Environmental, Jobs, Level, Poverty

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

Care, Ifs, Love, See, Work

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

Becoming, Children, Differences, Girl, Half, Starting

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

Community, Deep, Early, Poverty, Prevalent, Suffering

There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people (who are often marginalized and have less power) are sidelined by more powerful interests when money is involved.

Involved, Mean, People, Powerful

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

Field, Focus, Going Out, People, Programs

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

Children, Doubt, Empowerment, Interconnected