Archive: 2014

By: Annie Kearns, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Maternal health care has historically been viewed in distinct stages: antenatal care, care during labor and delivery, and postpartum care. More recently, the…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant A new report, “Maternal Health from 1985-2013: Hopeful Progress and Enduring Challenges,”  commissioned by the MacArthur Foundation, traces the history of global efforts to define priorities, mobilize action and…

By: Sara Riese, Research Advisor, Translating Research into Action (TRAction) A meeting which brought together implementers and experts in the fields of performance-based incentives, maternal newborn and child health (MNCH), and quality of care (QoC) was…

The WHO recently released a draft version of the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) for public comment. The ENAP addresses progress toward improving newborn survival in recent years, along with persistent challenges for accelerating progress. It also notes…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The WHO has published Strategies, tactics and approaches: Conducting and evaluating national civil society advocacy for  reproductive, maternal and child health,  based on  2012 consultation on the role of…

Our colleagues at Jacaranda Health and the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Health are now accepting applications from qualified maternal health professionals. Jacaranda Health is seeking a Knowledge/Special Projects Manager to: Join the management…

The following was originally posted on PLOS  Blogs PLOS Medicine and the MHTF review highlights of the second successful collection, as part of their 3 Year partnership focusing on improving Maternal Health globally. Back in late 2012 the…

Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 28, the MHTF is hosting a seminar on perinatal health led by Stephen Kennedy and Jose Villar, co-directors of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute and moderated by Ana Langer, Director of the Women & Health…

This week, St. John’s Research Institute in Bangalore, India, welcomed the inaugural class of the Maternal Health Young Professionals (MHYP) program. The program, designed to strengthen the research skills of young health care professionals in…

By: Renuka Motihar, Independent Consultant and member of the Executive Committee of the White Ribbon Alliance India As we approach the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, what does the future hold for international maternal mortality…