Archive: Jan 2012

By: Elena Chopyak, MPH Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health Over the first three weeks of January, several Harvard School of Public Health graduate students took part in the Field Experience in Maternal Health winter session, organized by the Women…

  The following originally appeared on Women Deliver’s blog. It is posted here with permission.   Every year, in conjunction with International Women’s Day, Women Deliver celebrates the progress made on behalf of girls and women…

This week on the MHTF blog: We posted a number of opportunities: a Fellowship at PRB; submit an abstract for the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting; and internships with the UCSF Safe Motherhood Program Maternal health in…

Anne M. Austin and Kate Mitchell are the two most recent additions to the Maternal Health Task Force team. Anne will lead the MHTF’s new research, monitoring and evaluation efforts as Deputy Director for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, while Kate…

The Safe Motherhood Program at the University of California, San Francisco is looking for two interns: one office intern to be based in the San Francisco office and one field intern to be based in the Copperbelt region of Zambia. 1.) UCSF Safe…

Today, Bill Gates published his annual letter, which this year focuses on improving the lives of the poorest of the poor through innovations in agriculture and promoting global health issues, including vaccines, polio, HIV/AIDS, and family planning. …

In a recent blog post, Ana Langer, Director of the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at the Women and Health Initiative (W&HI) at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), explained that the MHTF partners have been “virtually unanimous in calling for…

The progress made on maternal health since the creation of the Millennium Development Goals has been uneven both between and within countries. However, the data coverage, particularly for maternal mortality ratios (MMR), within countries cannot always…

The deadline of February 6th. is fast approaching to submit abstracts for the American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting. This year’s meeting will be held in San Francisco, CA in October 2012.   Last year’s…

By: Marissa Yeakey, Population Reference Bureau The Policy Communication Fellows program at the Population Reference Bureau provides participants with an understanding of how research can inform social policy, and a detailed knowledge of different…