Archive: Mar 2012

The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at the Women and Health Initiative (W&HI) and the Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute (OMPHI)  are teaming up on a new project focused on international fetal, newborn, and preterm postnatal…

With support from the Maternal Health Task Force, researchers at the Department of Community Medicine at Rajarata University in Sri Lanka sought to understand the prevalence and impact of maternal morbidity.   A brief research letter focusing…

Women Deliver 2013 will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from May 28-30. The general scholarship application is now available: There are two different scholarship applications – one for young people who will be under 30-years-old at the…

This week on the MHTF blog: DFID celebrated Mother’s Day in the UK A new paper explores maternal morbidity Gary Darmstadt and Wendy Prosser write about the growth of “kangaroo care” in Brazil World Water Day: clean water and…

By: Rachel Wilson, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy (PATH), Co-Chair (Maternal Health Supplies Working Group) Today could be the beginning of a significant, life-saving shift for maternal health. The United Nations Children’s Fund  and the…

In honor of World Water Day, our colleagues at IntraHealth have written a blog post about the links between access to clean water and quality health care. Be sure to check out IntraHealth’s World Water Day quiz too.   From our…

By: Gary Darmstadt and Wendy Prosser, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This post was originally posted on Impatient Optimists and is reposted here with permission. The Ministry of Health in Brazil has taken enormous strides to improve maternal and…

Late last year, the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted a Maternal Health Dialogue Series event on maternal morbidities in developing countries based in part on a report written by Karen Hardee, Jill Gay, and former MHTF Director Ann Blanc.   The…

Last weekend, the UK celebrated Mother’s Day. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) highlighted the work they support to improve the lives of mothers around the world and engaged advocates for maternal health.   On…

This week on the MHTF blog: Save the Date for GMHC2013 Will there be a 2015 UN Conference on Women? A final project report from Future Generations Two Opportunities for funding in maternal health Some reading for the weekend: …