Archive: Mar 2010

Grand Challenges in Global Health has announced Round 5 of their Grand Challenges Explorations Initiative: New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns. Grand Challenges in Global Health About Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE)…

In the state of Tamil Nadu in India, maternal and neonatal mortality rates have been declining according to the World Bank. One of the reasons might be due to a component of new health care reforms focusing on educating women about healthy pregnancies.…

By: Lisa Russell, Filmmaker, Member, MHTF Editorial Committee Lisa Russell, MHTF Editorial Committee Member, reflects on her experiences filming Love, Labor, Loss; a 2003 film on obstetric fistula in Niger.  The Maternal Health Task Force invites…

WATCH THE LIVE WEBCAST TODAY AT THIS LINK. The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at EngenderHealth, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have announced the third event, Maternal and…

By: Ann K. Blanc, Director, MHTF A message from Ann K. Blanc, Director of the Maternal Health Task Force, on International Women’s day: At the first International Women’s Day in 1911, the maternal mortality ratio in the United States was around…

On Thursday, February 25th, 2010, Dr. Jeremy Shiffman, member of the Maternal Health Task Force Editorial Committee, presented his research on issue ascendance in global health to a full house of MHTF partners and EngenderHealth staff at the…