Archive: Aug 2010

By: Lorraine Thompson, Winner, Ashoka’s Maternal Health Blogging Contest On August 30 at 8:00am, the air was already hot and sticky as Ashoka’s Young Champions and Changemakers boarded an air-conditioned bus. After careening across Delhi’s bumpy…

By: Sara Stratton, Director, MNCH/FP Programs, IntraHealth International This post was originally published on IntraHealth’s Global Health Blog. To the business world, it’s location, location, location. Here in Delhi, though, at the Global Maternal…

By: Janna Oberdorf, Communications Manager, Women Deliver These are two things I’m very proud of. I’m proud to be young (or at least young-ish) and passionate about women and mothers. I’m proud that when I see images of women giving birth in low-quality…

By: Maria M. Pawlowska, Cambridge Gates Scholar The Global Maternal Health Conference 2010 is underway! Unfortunately, I’m not there in New Delhi to witness it all first-hand but the organisers are kindly live streaming some of the sessions so I can…

By: Calyn Ostrowski, Coordinator, Maternal Health Dialogue Series, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars “We do not need new legislation… we need affordable, effective, and scalable solutions,” said Shn Gulamnabi Azad, Minister of Health,…

By: Janna Oberdorf, Communications Manager, Women Deliver At today’s session on “Policy and advocacy tools,” panelists presented on web-based and new media options for disseminating maternal health research and messages. Though online technology is an…

By: Kate Mitchell, Maternal Health Task Force Today (August 30, 2010) marked the first day of the Global Maternal Health Conference in Delhi. Throughout the day, the nearly 700 conference participants–made up of maternal health researchers,…

Using geographic maps provides a global view of where maternal health activity is occurring and helps the community to understand where gaps exist. We have three interactive maps on our site containing information that we hope will be useful in your work…

This Monday marks the start of the first ever Global Maternal Health Conference. The conference is being held in Delhi, India–and will focus on lessons learned, neglected issues, and innovative approaches to reducing maternal mortality and…

Ashoka and the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth together have launched an innovative program to foster a new cadre of maternal health professionals. The Young Champions of Maternal Health program is the first-ever international fellowship to…