Dr. Leila Adesse, MD, MPH, is the Country Director of Ipas Brazil. Dr. Adesse is a pediatrician with a strong background in adolescent health. She began work with Ipas as a training coordinator and took over full-time leadership of Ipas Brazil in 2001. Since 1984, Dr. Adesse has worked on public-health research in maternal and child health care and as a guest professor in the National School of Public Health-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Working as a consultant for the Ministry of Health, she coordinated a multiprofessional technical group adapting the Norms of PAISM (a legal assistance program in women’s health care) for use in educational materials used to train obstetrician-gynecologists in all hospitals of the Brazilian health-care system.