Archive: 2014

By: Kirsten Gagnaire, Executive Director, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) This post is part of our recurring series, mHealth Monday As the international development community increasingly shifts its focus to a post-2015 agenda, we must…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health USAID and the Governments of Ethiopia and India, in collaboration with UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, hosted a meeting on…

With the end of Millennium Development Goals and the start of the Sustainable Development Goals, the year 2015 is a critical time for redefining priorities and strategies for women’s health. Recognizing this unique time, Pan American Journal of Public…

By: Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer Wilma Ajiiba, an HHP in South Sudan, teaches women about the importance of giving birth in a health facility. (Photo courtesy of Kate Holt/Jhpiego.) In South Sudan, decades of civil war have wreaked havoc…

By: Katrina Braxton, Program Assistant, The Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative Over the last two decades, social accountability has emerged as a strategy to make health services more responsive to community needs. It’s an approach that…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Today, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, The Lancet launched its newest series Midwifery. This series provides concrete…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative; Jessica Schiffman, Senior Consultant, Daktari Diagnostics; Yogeeta Manglani, Research Assistant, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Our…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative; Jessica Schiffman, Senior Consultant, Daktari Diagnostics; Yogeeta Manglani, Research Assistant, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative This…

By: Manuelle Hurwitz, Senior Adviser, Abortion, International Planned Parenthood Federation; Rebecca Wilkins, Programme Officer, Abortion, International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPF welcomes the research released by IHME and the WHO providing new…

June 30, 2014 3:00 pm – 5:00pm 5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center Washington, DC The World Health Organization recommends that all pregnant women attend a minimum of four antenatal care visits with a trained health care provider and that a number of…