2014 – Page 14 – Maternal Health Task Force

When 2 Become 1: Integrating the Health Care needs of Mothers and Infants, the New MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health

June 03, 2014

By: Jennifer Horsley, Editorial Project Coordinator, PLOS Collections This blog post was originally posted on Speaking of Medicine, the blog of the PLOS Medical Journals’ Community. The post highlights the June 2nd, 2014 launch of Year 3 of the…

The Adding Content to Contact Project: Case Studies for Implementing Antenatal and Postnatal Care in Low-Resource Settings

May 30, 2014

By: Annie Kearns, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative For the past nine months, the Adding Content to Contact (ACC) project at the Women and Health Initiative has been working to systematically assess the obstacles…

Connecting Fistula Care and the Manifesto for Maternal Health

May 29, 2014

By: Bethany Cole, Global Projects Manager, Fistula Care Plus, EngenderHealth From 2007-2013 Engender Health managed the Fistula Care project in partnership with IntraHealth International and supported by USAID. The project worked in ten countries to…

The Lancet’s Editor Richard Horton Provides Commentary on Recent MMR Estimates

May 28, 2014

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health If you have been following the news and our MMR Estimates Blog Series, you know that the WHO and IHME recently released new global estimates for…

Every Newborn Action Plan Endorsed by the World Health Assembly

May 27, 2014

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Last week newborn health gained critical attention and commitment. On May 24th, 2014 the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) was endorsed by all…

My Perspective on Targets and Strategies Set for Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM)

May 23, 2014

By: Mengistu Hailemariam, MD, Maternal Health Advisor, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia The April 2014 Technical Consultation on Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality, Post-2015 Target Setting (EPMM) meeting in Bangkok yielded invaluable implications for…

Lancet Launches Every Newborn series: Where We’ve Been and Where We Need to Go

May 23, 2014

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This week The Lancet released its series: Every Newborn. The publication was purposefully timed concurrently with the Sixty-seventh annual…

More Caffeine, Less Long-Term Damage for Premature Infants?

May 22, 2014

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Caffeine can help us start our day or get us through a drowsy afternoon. But did you know caffeine can also help prevent a premature baby from…

Commentary: WHO and IHME Estimates - Global, Regional and National Causes of Maternal Death

May 21, 2014

By: Affette McCaw-Binns, Professor of Reproductive Health and Epidemiology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica In the same week IHME and the WHO provided the maternal health community with much on which to masticate; regional data on the causes…

The What and Why of Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to mHealth

May 19, 2014

By: Yogeeta Manglani, Research Assistant, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Despite hundreds of pilot studies, the general consensus among the mHealth community is that we lack sufficient evidence to inform scale up of programs.…

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