Archive: May 2010

By: Monica Onyango, MPH, PhD, Member, MHTF Editorial Committee In honor of International Day of the Midwife last week (May 5th) and International Nurses Day (today), Monica Onyango, MHTF Editorial Committee member, reflects on the role of midwives and…

In honor of Mother’s Day, Save the Children published the eleventh State of the World’s Mothers report. The focus of the report is on the shortage of health workers around the world who are needed to improve the health and save the lives of…

Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the fifth event of the series on Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health. This event will…

The Maternal Health Task Force and its Editorial Committee, in collaboration with NHS Evidence, recently compiled a list of  “Must Read” articles in maternal health. The list of articles is accessible here under the Key Resources…

Registration is still open for the SHOPS and mHealth Alliance eConference tomorrow on mobile technologies for improving family planning, maternal health and newborn services in developing countries. “The United States Agency for International…

Late last week our friend and colleague Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations released this response to a request from Capitol Hill staffers. Laurie and her team have gathered and analyzed a great deal of…