Archive: Jul 2013

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative NPR’s Shots recently ran a story, How midwives have become critical in war-zones, that discusses the role of midwives in conflict and post-conflict…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), along with partners at Population Services International (PSI), Venture Strategies…

By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine Image credit: Jack Zalium, Richard Basset We’re delighted to announce the addition of new content to our Maternal Health Task Force-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health. This Year 2…

In Atul Gawande’s recent piece in the New Yorker, Slow ideas: Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t?, he takes a careful look at the uptake of various medical innovations with special attention to the very…

Our colleagues at Pathfinder International have recently issued several new capacity building tools for global health practitioners. The tools, part of a collection called Straight to the Point Tools, include checklists and straight to the point…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative As our Young Champions of Maternal Health pass the nine-month fellowship program’s midpoint, we asked them to reflect on their wishes for maternal…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative The Thomson Reuters Foundation and the World Bank are teaming up on Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 at 3pm London time (GMT+1)/ 10 am EST for a live online…

According to the International Conference on Family Planning website, “Today, one in four people on earth are aged 10-25. It is the largest population of youth in history. Young people’s beliefs and decisions about family planning are critical to…

By: Dr. Alice Self, Sandwell General Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich; Hannah Knight, Research Fellow, Health Informatics, Office for Research and Clinical Audit, Lindsay Stewart R&D Centre, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists It can be…

The Lancet Global Health, the recently launched open-access global health journal of The Lancet, has published new national and regional estimates of term and preterm babies who are born small for gestational age in low and middle income countries. The…