The Gates Institute frequently holds conferences and meetings that serve as Leadership Forums. These Leadership Forums serve as incubators of promising policy and program ideas and models that collaborating international and national institutions can advance into policy and program maturity. The Leadership Forums offer the opportunity for global leaders in population and reproductive health to pursue cutting-edge policy issues and their programmatic solutions. Past Leadership Forums include: 2009: International Conference on Family Planning: Resarch and Best Practices, Munyonyo, Uganda 2008: Investing in Young People's Health and Development: Research that Improves Policies and Programs, Abuja, Nigeria 2006: Linking Reproductive Health, Family Planning and HIV/AIDS in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2005: Prevention and Treatment of Obstetric Fistula: Identifying Research Needs and Public Health Priorities, Baltimore, USA 2004: Parliamentarian Leadership, Baltimore, USA 2003: Developing the Next Generation of the FP/RH Workforce, Baltimore, USA 2002: Family Planning in New Worlds, Baltimore, USA For information about previous leadership forums, please contact Natalie Culbertson nculbert@jhsph.edu. | 
