Archive: Oct 2016

The Lancet Maternal Health Series published in September 2016 contains six papers highlighting the importance of improving access to high quality maternal health care for all women across the globe. In paper 3, “The scale, scope, coverage, and capability…

There has been some confusion recently about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets for reducing maternal mortality. The SDG global target is to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030. In…

The Women and Health Initiative and the Women, Gender, and Health interdisciplinary concentration at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health hosted a seminar featuring Monica Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice…

Dr. Eshetu Bekele Yimenu is a young leader working at Save the Children International as Director of Research and Uptake leading the Research, Child Rights Governance and Campaigns Department in Ethiopia. In the latest post in the Global Leaders in…

This past Saturday was Global Handwashing Day, an event dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of handwashing for preventing diseases and saving lives. One of the Sustainable Development Goals is to ensure availability and sustainable…

We are excited to announce the upcoming policy dialogue, "What Next? Putting The Lancet Maternal Health Series Into Action." The event will take place at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (and online!) on Friday, October 28, 2016...read more

Exactly one year has passed since the 2015 Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, an event organized by the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) in collaboration with USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program, Saving Newborn Lives at Save the…

The Lancet Maternal Health Series published last month contains six papers highlighting the importance of improving access to high quality maternal health care for all women across the globe. In paper 2, “Beyond too little, too late and too much, too…

In 1994, Thaddeus and Maine published their groundbreaking article, “Too Far to Walk: Maternal Mortality in Context.” More than 20 years later, distance remains a major barrier to maternity care for many women around the world. Where a woman lives should…

One of the most challenging areas of maternal health is measuring, improving and assuring quality of care. Measuring the quality of maternal health care can be particularly difficult, especially surrounding labor and delivery. Maternal mortality and…