Archive: Sep 2014

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Koki Agarwal, Director, MCHIP This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Integration Blog Series, which shares themes of and reactions to the…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health On September 9th and 10th, the Maternal Health Task Force and Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives program convened experts in Boston to…

By: Thyra de Jongh, Founder and Director, Gephyra International Health Consultancy This post is part of our “Continuum of Care” blog series hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force Are we doing enough? As the deadline for the Millennium…

This blog post originally appeared on blogs.plos.org In November 2013, PLOS Medicine and the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) called for submissions to the third year of the MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health. Today we…

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By: Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Director of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, ICS Integrare; Sheetal Sharma, Research and Knowledge Management Associate, ICS Integrare This post is part of our “Continuum of Care” blog series hosted…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health For the first time, the world has international standards for both fetal growth and newborn size. These standards have been developed by a…

By: Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Director of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, ICS Integrare; Sheetal Sharma, Research and Knowledge Management Associate, ICS Integrare This post is part of our “Continuum of Care” blog series hosted…

Luna Maya is a midwife-run birth center in Chiapas, Mexico. This the second part of a two-part edited conversation with its director, Cris Alonso. To read the first part of this interview click here. Q. What have been some of the primary…