Archive: 2012

This week on the MHTF blog: HSPH students Hannah Ratcliffe and Elena Chopyak write about their experiences with MHTF partners during the Winter Session Submit your nominations for the Women Deliver 50 Maternal health articles in the February…

“You learn in medical school that people exposed to malaria as children develop immunity and rarely die from malaria as adults. What we have found in hospital records, death records, surveys, and other sources shows that just is not the case,” said…

By: Hannah Ratcliffe, MSc 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…

In the February 2012 issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, maternal health is prominently featured with seven (half!) of the articles directly or very closely touching on maternal health. Just a few years ago, this focus on maternal…

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. …