Archive: 2014

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The release of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership’s report, “The Contribution of Malaria Control to Maternal and Newborn Health,” made…

This article originally appeared on the Women Deliver blog on July 7th, 2014 Since their implementation fourteen years ago, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have made critical strides, yet challenges remain for girls, women and young…

By: Faith Muigai, Director of Clinical Operations, Jacaranda Health; Shalmali Radha Karnad, Clinical Programs Manager, Jacaranda Health This post is part of our “Supporting the Human in Human Resources” blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task…

By: Aime Newman, Director of Communications and Development, Jacaranda Health; Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative; Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health For the first time it can be said that fetal growth and birth size is not predetermined by genetics, but by the health status of the mother. Fetal…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This post is part one of two in our family planning feature this week A new article just released from scholars at Harvard School of Public…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This post is part two of two in our family planning feature this week Building on the emphasis at the PMNCH Partners’ Forum this week of…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Yesterday, Carolyn Miles, President & CEO of Save the Children, added her influential voice on the Huffington Post Blog in her article, Can a…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This year, WHO’s Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) Working Group, including experts from the MHTF, have been working together to help…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Today and tomorrow up to 800 maternal, newborn, and child health leaders will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa at the 2014 World Health…