Archive: 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…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In “How evolution of the human brain shaped women’s sexual  and  reproductive health,”  an article published recently in Reproductive Biology Insights, Mahmoud Fathalla explores the ways that biological…

By: Priya Agrawal, Executive Director, Merck for Mothers As an OB/GYN who has worked in dozens of developing countries, I have seen firsthand what it’s like to give birth in places where resources are strapped and conditions are bleak. I’ve seen the way…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant This week, The Lancet launched a series on the remarkable progress and remaining challenges for improving health in Bangladesh, focusing on what The Lancet’s Bangladesh study team calls the Bangladesh paradox:…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In this month’s edition of the web seminar series organized by our colleagues at IDEAS, Dr. Tanya Marchant, IDEAS Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology will lead a session on writing a scientific paper for peer review…

By: Natalie Ramm, Communications Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Young Champions Cohort 2 (2013) Over the course of the last nine months, the Young Champions have each designed projects focused on a specific…