Archive: 2009

The MHTF welcomes Raji Mohanam as the Knowledge Management Specialist for the Maternal Health Task Force. Raji started her career at the Population Council in New York where she was a Program Coordinator for six years. Subsequently, she worked for…

The MHTF is pleased to welcome Sue Lee who has joined the MHTF as a Program Assistant. Sue has accomplished quite a bit since graduating from New York University in 2006 with a BS in Communications. After several internships with media and communications…

The Task Force has assembled an eminent group of experts to act as an Advisory Group.  (See the new page listed above.) We are pleased that we will be able to call upon this group to provide input on the activities of the MTHF, to link the Task…

A summary of the recommendationsfrom the DHS e-forum have been sent to the Demographic and Health Surveys program. We have also sent a recommendation and some preliminary suggestions for the development of an optional maternal health module with an…

Many thanks to everyone who posted a comment on our DHS eForum. Since the DHS is such an important source of information for monitoring progress on maternal health indicators, it is crucial to get the revised questionnaire right, and I anticipate that…

You must be registered and logged in toparticipate in this eForum. If you have not already done so, please read the background documents that we previously posted. Background The Demographic and Health Surveys are nationally representative…

MBBS, MPH, MRCGP, FFPHM, FRCOG, D.Sc. Gwyneth is widely known and respected by the maternal and newborn health community, both in the UK and more widely, and holds several roles in promoting global safer motherhood and newborn health. She is the…

By: Dr. Gwyneth Lewis, MHTF Advisory Group Welcome to Dr. Gwyneth Lewis, our first guest blogger, and a member of the MHTF Advisory Group. Click here for her bio. Thanks for the post, Gwyneth! -The MHTF Team. I was honoured to represent the MHTF…

Here at the MHTF we’re encouraged that maternal health featured so prominently in the opening addresses of the World Health Assembly in Geneva yesterday. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon eloquently summed it up by saying, “In the 21st century, no woman…

The DHS eforum will launch any day now! If you haven’t already done so, register here so that you will be able to participate in this important online discussion that will provide input to the DHS program on the maternal health content of the revised DHS…