Archive: Nov 2010

Unlike some other aspects of the development world, maternal health solutions are often straightforward and less controversial. Ask 10 experts how to improve local governance in a given country, and you’ll likely get 10 different answers. However, ask 10…

Visualizing data is a useful way to show trends and information that may not be as easily understood or compelling in tables or text. There are many tools available online to visualize maternal health data, such as GapMinder or those available from…

This blog post was contributed by Ifeyinwa Egwaoje Madu, one of the fifteen Young Champions of Maternal Health chosen by Ashoka and the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth. She will be blogging about her experience every month, and you can learn…

By: Seth Cochran, Young Champion of Maternal Health This blog post was contributed by Seth Cochran, one of the fifteen Young Champions of Maternal Health chosen by Ashoka and the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth. He will be blogging about his…

The following post was contributed by the Fistula Care Project and is a part of their Stories from the Field series that documents the experiences of women suffering from obstetric fistula and the people who work on the issue. Dr. Alyona Lewis is the…

This week on the MHTF blog: Tim Thomas wrote about the Partners’ Forum on Women’s and Children’s Health in Delhi. Raji Mohanam told us about many mobile technologies that have health applications We heard about the Tamil Nadu…

In September in Geneva, experts in human rights and maternal health gathered to discuss “good practices regarding maternal death audits, the role of national human rights institutions, and the contribution of judicial procedures.”…

MHTF Director Ann Blanc published an article in the December 2010 issue of Seminars in Perinatology. She and her colleagues reviewed about 1,000 studies dealing with reproductive health, maternal health, and perinatal and neonatal outcomes and found:…

As we recently mentioned, MHTF also has a blog on Medscape/WebMD and we’ve published a post today on caesarean sections in the United States and throughout the developing world. Also, we’ve created a page for a community of practice (CoP)…

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, The Lancet, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the University of Queensland School of Population Health invite submission of abstracts for oral…