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Dr. Raffaela Schiavon, MD, is Country Director of Ipas Mexico. Dr. Schiavon joined Ipas full time in December 2005. After receiving her medical degree from the University of Padua, Italy, she specialized in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Trieste, Italy. She practiced medicine in Italy for approximately six years before moving to Mexico, where she worked at the Hospital General de México as a specialist in reproductive biology, the National Pediatrics Institute as Director of the Gynecology and Family Planning Clinic, and Chief of Reproductive Health Services at the National Pediatrics Institute. Immediately before joining Ipas, she was Deputy Director of Reproductive Health at the National Center for Gender Equity and Reproductive Health of the Ministry of Health. She has also served as a professor at the medical school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Institute of Public Health, and the Autonomous University of Querétaro. She is a strong advocate for reproductive health and has been instrumental in getting emergency contraception included in the national family-planning norms and making the medication available in all public facilities.