Archive: 2014

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Next week the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF), along with other global experts, will gather in Cape Town at the Third Global Symposium on Health…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health We can count today as a victory for women around the world. Today the World Health Organization (WHO) released the consensus statement “Prevention…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Integration Blog Series, which shares themes of and reactions to the “Integration of…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Integration Blog Series, which shares themes of and reactions to the “Integration of Maternal and…

By: Niyi Osamiluyi, Founder/CEO, Premier Medical Systems Nigeria, Ltd. This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Integration Blog Series, which shares themes of and reactions to the “Integration of Maternal and Newborn Health: In Pursuit of Quality”…

At the end of August and at the beginning of this month we featured an interview with Cris Alonso, Director of the Luna Maya birth center in Chiapas, Mexico. Here she shares with us her insights on the broader maternal health environment – from obstetric…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Koki Agarwal, Director, MCHIP This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Integration Blog Series, which shares themes of and reactions to the…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health On September 9th and 10th, the Maternal Health Task Force and Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives program convened experts in Boston to…

By: Thyra de Jongh, Founder and Director, Gephyra International Health Consultancy This post is part of our “Continuum of Care” blog series hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force Are we doing enough? As the deadline for the Millennium…

This blog post originally appeared on blogs.plos.org In November 2013, PLOS Medicine and the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) called for submissions to the third year of the MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health. Today we…