Archive: Oct 2012

On October 29th, the New York Times reported that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently provided a grant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a Massachusetts nonprofit, to identify strategies for helping pregnant women in Ghana to…

On October 17th, Harvard School of Public Health featured a post, Researchers To Examine the Impact of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, about a group of researchers who are exploring the impact of the Millennium Development Goals,…

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth recently published an article, Making pragmatic choices: Women’s experiences of delivery care in Northern Ethiopia, that looks into women’s experiences and perceptions around delivery care in  Tigray, a…

Over the past couple of weeks, our team has identified several exciting opportunities to work on projects relating to maternal health and/or global health knowledge management around the world—including posts in Ethiopia, India, Kenya,…

By: Payal Chandiramani, The Wilson Center Obstetric fistula is “not just a medical issue, but a human issue,” said Dr. Luc de Bernis, senior maternal health advisor at UNFPA, during a September 27 panel discussion at the Wilson Center. Obstetric fistula,…

On October 9th, 2012, PLoS Medicine published a paper, Serious and Life-Threatening Pregnancy-Related Infections: Opportunities to Reduce the Global Burden, that describes the global burden of pregnancy-related infections (including and…

A recent study in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth explored levels of institutional delivery service utilization and the associated factors in Munisa Woreda, South East Ethiopia. Take a look at the abstract here: Background Reducing maternal morbidity…

The Maternal Health Task Force, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Global Health Initiative, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and PATH are delighted to invite you to an upcoming dialogue! The dialogue, Strategic Steps for…

In honor of International Day of the Girl Child, Ann K. Blanc, Vice President and Director of Poverty, Gender and Youth at the Population Council and Senior Advisor to the Maternal Health Task Force, shared a blog post on the Huffington…

From our colleagues at Catapult: Catapult.org Launches First Crowdfunding Site Focused on Equality for Girls and Women New York, NY, October 11, 2012 – Today, on International Day of the Girl Child, global advocacy organization Women Deliver…