Archive: Sep 2011

A new three-year, $12 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support a Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) effort to significantly improve maternal health in developing countries. The project will be led by Dr. Ana Langer,…

By: Joy Lawn, Director Global Evidence and Policy, Saving Newborn Lives-Save the Children-US The following post originally appeared on the Healthy Newborn Network blog. It is reposted here with permission If you were born today in Africa, you would…

This week on the MHTF blog: What to do after 2015? Antenatal and postnatal care as a way to address family planning? New estimates of neonatal mortality An update on knowledge translation from ICDDR,B Some reading for the weekend …

The following is part of a series of project updates from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). The MHTF is supporting their project, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Translation in Bangladesh. More information on…

By: Mikkel Oestergaard and Colin Mathers, World Health Organization The following post originally appeared on the Healthy Newborn Network blog. It is reposted here with permission. Where you are born matters tremendously for your risk of dying within…