- She was an obstetrician-gynecologist who became the first woman to direct a United Nations agency, the U.N. Population Fund. She was widely regarded as one of the most effective advocates of women's reproductive rights around the world.
- She graduated from Dow Medical College in Karachi, and studied public health at Johns Hopkins University.
- She grew up in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Karachi, where her father was a government finance officer after the partition in 1947. He later became Pakistan's finance minister and a vice president of the World Bank.
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