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This is Grace Fernandez, assistant producer of public health on call.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs was established to develop and

research creative ways to boost the use of modern family planning around the world. Today, as the

center marks its 35th birthday, Dr. Joshua Sharfstein speaks to CCP's new executive director,

Deborah Friedas Lopez, about the program's continued mission to inspire

and enable people around the world to make healthy choices about everything from contraception

to COVID-19 to climate action. Let's listen. Deborah Freitas-Lopez, you are the executive

director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs.

Welcome to Public Health On Call.

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Now, I understand that the center is having a birthday this year.

That's right. It's our 35th.

So that's a pretty big birthday, and it's a pretty big center.

How many people are at the center at John Hopkins?

Yes.

So overall, across the United States and the rest of the world,

were about 700 team members.

700 team members right now working in how many countries?

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