From Salma Hayek, Advisory Board Member:

As a woman and a mother, I believe in speaking out strongly and passionately whenever possible to help diminish the suffering of women and children all over the world.

Just as I want to be there for my daughter, I want all mothers to be there for their children, because every child deserves to have a mother in her life. Cervical cancer has cut short these relationships far too often in poorer parts of the world — even in areas of my native Mexico — where women don’t have the same access to health care as women do in the U.S.

Grounds for Health’s cervical cancer screening, treatment and training programs successfully address this problem; and, by bringing life-saving care to mothers — and future mothers — who are the lifeblood of their families, they are saving daughters, sons, husbands and communities.

Advisory Board

Julia Alvarez

Award-winning author and educator
Vermont

Francis Fote, MD

Co-founder, Grounds for Health
Arizona

Tina Berard

Vice President, Atlantic Specialty Coffee, Inc.
California

Lynne Gaffikin, PhD

President, Evaluation and Research Technologies for Health (EARTH) Inc, Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University
California

Salma Hayek

Film actor, director, and producer
California

Dr. Harshad Sanghvi

VP & Medical Director, JHPIEGO (an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University)
Maryland

Dr. José Alberto Valenzuela

Ob/Gyn and GFH collaborator
Oaxaca, Mexico