Archive: 2015

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…

By: Kate Walton, Health Specialist, Kinerja, Indonesia Last week, I had the great privilege of attending the first-ever Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference (GMNHC) in Mexico City. During a panel on midwifery around the world, I presented on a…

By: Abhishek Bhartia, Director, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi “We discussed this internally but don’t feel I have the bandwidth to travel to Mexico,” I wrote to Sue Gullo, director of the Institute for Healthcare…

By: Jody Lori, Associate Dean for Global Affairs & Director of the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center, University of Michigan The Maternal and Newborn Health Conference in Mexico City was motivating, energizing, and stimulated lots of conversation…

By: Rima Jolivet, Maternal Health Technical Director, Maternal Health Task Force Human rights are at the center of the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health and figure prominently in the new SDG framework.…