Archive: 2010

“What are the problems you face? How can these be solved?” If you provide care for pregnant women, this is your opportunity to make your voice heard. Global Voices for Maternal Health is a major new project from the University of Oxford…

The controversial research reporting unexpected gains in maternal health, published April 12 in the Lancet, has triggered rigorous debate about the measurement tools used to count maternal deaths globally and at a country level. The paper, Maternal…

Over the past couple weeks, Dr. Fatouma Mabeye, the Medical Coordinator for WAHA International, and Dr. Joseph Ruminjo, the Clinical Director for the Fistula Care Project, have engaged in a lively public dialogue (via the MHTF Blog) around the use of…

EngenderHealth is looking for a Copywriter/Social Media Associate. If you have experience utilizing social media to increase the visibility of an organization and raise awareness for a cause–and are also skilled at translating technical sexual and…

On June 17th, the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth and Ashoka announced the 16 winners of the Young Champions for Maternal Health competition. The 16 selected Young Champions are set to participate in the first-ever international…

On June 3rd, 2010, I posted a guest blog post from Dr. Fatouma Mabeye of WAHA International on a recent meeting in Benin of midwives from West and Central Africa. Dr. Mabeye explained that the goal of the meeting was to explore the role of midwives in…

From the Global Maternal Health Conference 2010 co-organizers: The Public Health Foundation of India and the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth Preparations for our conference to take place in Delhi 30th August – 1st September are well…

The Women Deliver conference team made a special commitment to not only including the issues of youth (health, well-being, empowerment, etc.) in the program for Women Deliver 2010–but they also made sure to include the voices of youth throughout…

Day two (6/8) of the Women Deliver conference had a clear focus on technology to improve the health of women and children around the globe. Take a look at two examples of technologies discussed at the conference yesterday–one high tech and one very…

The Women Deliver conference is officially underway–and in the first day alone several announcements were made that will likely make a significant impact on the maternal health field. Below you will find links to several highlights from yesterday…