Archive: Tue Oct 2015

By: Katie Millar, Senior Project Manager, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Ministries of Health of Sri Lanka, Rwanda and Ethiopia gathered yesterday to discuss an…

By: Kelsey Holt, Senior Project Manager, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Pregnant women who do not wish to—or aren’t able to—carry pregnancies to term have been largely absent in discussions at the GMNHC in…

By: Kate Ramsey, Columbia University AMDD Last week, a report of a horrifying incident in a maternity ward appeared in my email inbox. A woman was beaten by a health provider as she died on the floor while delivering in a health facility. When it…

By: Amy Boldosser-Boesch, Interim President and CEO, Family Care International The year 2015 has been one of dramatic movement for global maternal and newborn health—from the end of the Millennium Development Goals to the beginning of a universal and…

By: John Grove, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Lara Vaz, Senior Advisor, Save the Children “Hello, is anyone home?” asks a young woman from outside a home in Dire Dawa, wearing a T-shirt identifying her as part…

By: Sandeep Bathala, Senior Program Associate, Maternal Health Initiative, Wilson Center The feats that pregnant women perform under some of the most rudimentary conditions are sometimes unimaginable. On the first day of the Global Maternal and…

By: Rima Jolivet, Maternal Health Technical Director, Maternal Health Task Force Accountability ran through today’s offerings at the GMNHC, both those explicitly dedicated to the topic and others I attended. I chose the title for this blog from the…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Presenters taking part in this afternoon’s session on “Programming for Maternal and Newborn Health during Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Epidemics and Conflict”  addressed questions of securing maternal and…