Archive: 2014

By: Helen de Pinho, Associate Director, Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, Columbia University; Shanon McNab, Senior Program Officer, Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, Columbia University This post is part of…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health A new wave of attention and research is now focused on one of the world’s most vulnerable populations: adolescents. In the developing world, there…

By: Vandana Tripathi, Deputy Director, Fistula Care Plus, EngenderHealth EngenderHealth, which leads the USAID-supported Fistula Care Plus (FC+) project, and the Maternal Health Task Force recently co-convened two meetings on obstetric fistula in Boston,…

By: Mary Nell Wegner, Executive Director, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative On July 8-11, the MHTF had the privilege of co-hosting two meetings with the Fistula Care Plus project, led by EngenderHealth. It was a terrific opportunity…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health A quarter of HIV-positive women surveyed in Mesoamerica reported health care workers pressured them into sterilization, recent research shows. This…

By: Paige Sholar, Writing and Communications Intern, Penda Health This post is part of our “Supporting the Human in Human Resources” blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force and Jacaranda Health. Penda Health has built a chain of…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Antenatal care has long been viewed as a critical component of comprehensive maternal and newborn health care, together with care at the time…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This post is part of our “Supporting the Human in Human Resources” blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task…

By: Kathleen McDonald, Senior Program Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative This post is part of our “Supporting the Human in Human Resources” blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This month the WHO came out with “Birth defects surveillance: Atlas of selected congenital anomalies.” This guide, with illustrations and…