Archive: Oct 2013

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant This year’s meeting of the American Public Health Association is being held in Boston, Massachusetts from November 2-6, with the theme “Think Global, Act Local: Best Practices Around the World.”  With this theme,…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In this year’s annual State of the World Population, UNFPA focuses on the issue of early childbearing. The report finds that not only are 7.5 million births to girls under the age of 18 every year, but 2 million are to…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Written on behalf of the International Fetal and Newborn Growth Consortium for the 21st Century (INTERGROWTH-21st) If the idea of implementing and managing…

By: Jacob Glass, Writer, The Wilson Center Cross-posted from New Security Beat Since 2009, the “Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health” series, co-produced by the Wilson Center, Harvard’s Maternal Health Task Force, and the United…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The MHTF is partnering with St. John’s Medical College & Research Institute, Bangalore to offer a mentoring program for young maternal health professionals in India. The program, now accepting applications, will offer…

By: Clare Watt, Harvard School of Public Health; Nora Miller, Research Assistant, Respectful Maternity Care program, Women and Health Initiative Measuring advocacy for policy change: The case for respectful maternity care, continued today, charging ahead…

By: Tiffany Clark and Emily Forsyth Queen, USAID Traction Project Today marked the first day of Measuring advocacy for policy change: The case for respectful maternity care, a meeting convened in Cambridge, MA by the MHTF and the USAID Traction Project.…

The MHTF and USAID’s Translating Research into Action (TRAction) project are hosting a technical meeting focused on the challenge of measuring advocacy, with the specific aim of applying lessons from other global health advocacy efforts to respectful…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Wednesday, October 16, marked the sixth annual Global Dignity Day to promote respectful care during childbirth around the world. To mark the day, Birthrights, a UK-based organization devoted to advancing respectful,…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Each year, the Maternal Health Task Force and PLOS Medicine work together to organize an open access collection of research and commentary on maternal health.…