Archive: 2012

A message from our colleagues at UNFPA: Nokia joins UNFPA’s Safe Birth. Even Here campaign, through which midwives in refugee camps are reporting on safe deliveries by uploading photos and stories to a website from where the good news can be shared…

A message from our colleagues at the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS): The Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS) is now accepting letters of inquiry to identify and develop research sites in low-…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Last week, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation released the findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. One of the major findings:…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative In a recent paper published in BMC Women’s Health, Julio Frenk,  Octavio Gomez-Dantez and Ana Langer (Director of the Maternal Health Task Force)…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative The World Health Organization recently launched a new website with detailed recommendations for how countries can improve access to critical…

In a new post on the Guardian’s Global Development Professionals network, Global health is growing in prominence – now what?, Alanna Shaikh, a leading health and international development blogger, writes about the growing field of global…

A new post, Above All, Do No Harm: The Sad State of Health Care Quality in Rural Madhya Pradesh, on the Center for Global Development Blog offers an informative summary of a recent publication, In Urban And Rural India, A Standardized…

Our colleagues at Women Deliver and The Lancet have recently issued a call for papers for an upcoming special issue of The Lancet that will coincide with the Women Deliver conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in May 2013. From…

Are you presenting at the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 in Arusha, Tanzania? Do you plan to tune in to the live stream to view sessions remotely? Join the team of guest bloggers for the conference! With GMHC2013 right around the corner, the…

By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine We are delighted to announce the theme for year 2 of our Maternal Health Collection, a partnership between PLOS and the Maternal Health Task Force at Harvard School of Public Health. We invite…