Archive: Jan 2014

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The WHO has published Strategies, tactics and approaches: Conducting and evaluating national civil society advocacy for  reproductive, maternal and child health,  based on  2012 consultation on the role of…

Our colleagues at Jacaranda Health and the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Health are now accepting applications from qualified maternal health professionals. Jacaranda Health is seeking a Knowledge/Special Projects Manager to: Join the management…

The following was originally posted on PLOS  Blogs PLOS Medicine and the MHTF review highlights of the second successful collection, as part of their 3 Year partnership focusing on improving Maternal Health globally. Back in late 2012 the…

Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 28, the MHTF is hosting a seminar on perinatal health led by Stephen Kennedy and Jose Villar, co-directors of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute and moderated by Ana Langer, Director of the Women & Health…

This week, St. John’s Research Institute in Bangalore, India, welcomed the inaugural class of the Maternal Health Young Professionals (MHYP) program. The program, designed to strengthen the research skills of young health care professionals in…

By: Renuka Motihar, Independent Consultant and member of the Executive Committee of the White Ribbon Alliance India As we approach the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, what does the future hold for international maternal mortality…

The MHTF is pleased to announce the launch of our latest topic page: “Post-2014: What’s next for maternal health?” Along with our ongoing guest blog series on the proposed maternal health goal for the post-2015 development agenda, the topics…

By: Edgar Kestler, Director, Epidemiological Research Center in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Guatemala As we approach the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, what does the future hold for international maternal mortality targets? The…

By: Lennie Kamwendo, White Ribbon Alliance Global Board Member As we approach the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, what does the future hold for international maternal mortality targets? The MHTF is pleased to be hosting a blog series…

By: Bridget Nwagbara and Osayande Osagie, students at Melbourne School of Global and Population Health, University of Melbourne, Australia. As we approach the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, what does the future hold for…