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Jersey Girl Power!



Since graduating from Harvard in 2007, Elizabeth Scharpf has had a single-minded focus: giving women and girls around the world access to maxi pads. YES....maxi pads. Women in Mozambique were not going to work when they had their periods because maxi pads cost more than a day's wages.


The more research Scharpf did, the more she learned this problem was global — a secret pandemic that women everywhere suffered from but didn't talk about. With her business savvy and experience commercializing health products, she hoped she was uniquely situated to help.


Johnson and Johnson's chief technology officer learned about the work Scharpf was doing and believed it could be applied around the world. The innovation department signed on as a technical adviser in March 2015.



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