Archive: 2013

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Every year, 15 million babies are born too soon – that’s 1 in every 10 births.  Preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn deaths globally, affecting…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant This week, as donors, health program leaders, researchers, policy makers and advocates from around the world are meeting at the International Conference on Family Planning in Addis Ababa to discuss evidence, programming…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant World Prematurity Day is this Sunday, November 17, and beginning Friday, November 15, organizations around the world will be highlighting the critical challenge of addressing premature birth. Groups will publish new…

By: Kelsey Holt, Senior Project Manager, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The third biennial International Conference on Family Planning kicked off this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with almost 3,000 attendees from…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant UNFPA reported yesterday that in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, 200,000 pregnant women now face an uncertain future, as health services struggle to provide even the most basic services, with many facilities destroyed…

By: Alison El Ayadi, UCSF Safe Motherhood Program; Suellen Miller, UCSF Safe Motherhood Program Imagine that you are a nurse midwife, the only staff member in a busy primary health center in rural Nigeria. At least once per month a woman will arrive…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC) has issued RFPs for two projects aimed at advancing knowledge in relation to maternal health supplies: issue briefs and bridging knowledge gaps on maternal health…

The Global Health Corps is now accepting the first part of applications for its 2014-2015 fellowships, and will be accepted through January 24, 2014. The fellowships draw young people with diverse backgrounds and interests, and are open to anyone…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant On November 10, as the WHO convenes the Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Recife, Brazil, The Africa Network for Associate Clinicians, New York University and Columbia University are hosting a side event…

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,…