Archive: Dec 2013

By: Meg Wirth, Founder, Maternova Maternova is a social enterprise building out a fast track for commercialization of life-saving technologies for maternal, newborn and child health.  Why commercialization?  Isn’t the current trend…

By: Yogeeta Manglani, Research Assistant, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative  The Maternal Health Task Force is excited to announce the launch of Tech4MH, a blog series that will focus on technologies that hold promise for…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, The Lancet launched a special issue featuring the Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation, a report by the Lancet’s Commission on Investing in Health which lays out a vision…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Image credit: Jack Zalium, Flickr The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and PLOS Medicine are committed to creating a platform for sharing critical…

By: Tamil Kendall, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Women and Health Initiative Globally, HIV and complications of childbearing are the leading causes of death among women of reproductive age. The epicenter of poor maternal health outcomes associated…