Archive: 2012

Last year, the World Health Organization published a document titled, “Compendium of New and Emerging Health Technologies“. The document is an interesting resource that provides one page summaries of several technologies that are under…

Global Health and Diplomacy (GHD) is looking for an Editorial Intern to assist in writing short articles, updating social media, and performing other tasks.     Be sure to check out the maternal and child health section of Global…

On March 13, DFID announced their Health Research Competition for the Development of New Technologies to Impact Diseases of Poverty. The competition will fund research projects on a number of global health issues–including malaria in pregnancy,…

In a recent article in Nature International Weekly Journal of Science, science writer, Daniel Cressey, wrote about efforts by drug development companies to share intellectual property and  expand access to leads on potential drug candidates for…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TZo_7ITSKs   Our colleagues at PSI recently shared a blog post about a new program in Burundi that is working to increase access to sexual and reproductive health information for youth through radio: In a…

  TEDxChange is a program and partnership of TED and the Gates Foundation, created to spark global conversations about social issues. The focus of Thursday’s event,  TEDxChange: The Big Picture, will be to challenge traditional…

Next month, Bangladesh will host the Asia Regional Meeting on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care: Organized by the Government of Bangladesh, USAID’s flagship Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP),…

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…