Archive: Nov 2015

By Priya Agrawal, Executive Director, Merck for Mothers It’s hard to believe that the United States (U.S.) ranks 46th in the world when it comes to the rate of women dying from pregnancy and childbirth complications. Our country’s maternal mortality…

By: Allisyn Moran, Senior Maternal Health Advisor, USAID Last month in Mexico City at the Global Maternal and Newborn Health Conference, we discussed a variety of important topics for improving maternal and newborn health. The main themes of the…

By: Laura Line, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Maternity Care Coalition This post is part of “Inequities in Maternal Mortality in the U.S.,” a blog series hosted by the MHTF. While internationally maternal mortality rates have been falling, the…

By Suha Patel. As a maternal health provider, I would love to know what women think about the care my colleagues and I provide. I need more comprehensive, high quality information about the patient experience in the maternal health care system than my…

By Elizabeth Dawes Gay. Last month, over a thousand people gathered in Mexico City for the Global Maternal and Newborn Health Conference. Much of the discourse centered on improving health care for mothers and babies, as it tends to both globally and…

Join us in Washington, D.C. at the Wilson Center (and online!) next Thursday, November 19 from 10a-12p EST to hear from experts from the federal to local level about what is driving the rising maternal mortality ratio and why African American women are…

By Neel Shah, Associate Faculty at the Ariadne Labs for Health Systems Innovation When it comes to childbirth, the United States of America seems to combine the problems of the third world and the first world into a perfect storm. On one hand, 50% of…

By: Rose Molina, Global Women’s Health Fellow, The Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Obstetrician/gynecologist, The Dimock Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center This post is part of…

By: Deepthi Wickremasinghe, Research Assistant & Information Management Specialist, IDEAS Energy and enthusiasm abounded at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference in Mexico City in October 2015, where knowledge and evidence were…

To highlight the rising and disparate rate of maternal deaths in the U.S., the Maternal Health Task Force is launching a blog series to explore strategies to mitigate these deaths and inequities and build a repository of information and resources…