Archive: 2014

Our study called for research to understand how referral and transport interventions work for obstetric emergencies. This research is crucial since decisions to seek care can be deferred or hindered, and even if decisions are rapidly made to seek care,…

While a maternal death is devastating in its own right, a mother’s death is not an isolated event; when a mother dies there are immediate and lasting repercussions for her children, her family, and the broader community. As the dawn of the Sustainable…

Over the last three years, the MHTF has partnered with PLoS to put together an annual collection on maternal health. These open-access collections were curated with the goal of increasing access to comprehensive research to global maternal health…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Are newborn growth charts one size fits all? Are growth charts developed based on how babies in the U.S. have grown in the past applicable in the U.S. today,…

Jobs: Technical Advisor, Gender (FHI 360) Senior Program Officer, Maternal Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) (Gates) Head of Gender Equality (CARE) Fellowships: Investigating the impact of mobile technology on Maternal Child Healthcare…

We are excited to announce the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference will take place in Mexico City, October 18 to 21, 2015. The conference comes at a critical time when countries around the world are preparing for new, ambitious global targets: the…

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, together with the World Health Organization, with support from Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, are updating estimates of stillbirth rates at national level for the first time since 2009, and…

The Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative, in partnership with UNFPA and the Maternal Health Task Force, is heading to Abuja, Nigeria, to co-host a two-day workshop from December 16-17 with the Centre for Population and Reproductive Health. On…

As momentum builds towards the unveiling of the post-2015 agenda, the global health community has its eye on universal health coverage (UHC) as a priority for operationalizing the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The issue at hand is not whether UHC…

The fact that nearly one in three women globally has experienced intimate partner violence, a form of gender-based violence (GBV), is widely known. But can you easily name a situation where GBV occurs in the healthcare system? GBV is a worldwide problem…