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New Jobs and Internships in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in December 2024.…
Where Did My Midwife Go?
Ariel Bernstein, MPH, CPM is a midwife in the US having practiced in 4 different states before she received her Masters in Public Health in global health from Harvard University. She is passio1nate about expanding the role of midwives worldwide and…
Meeting the target but missing the point: The politics of childbirth data
Pressure to meet targets to improve health outcomes for women and their babies can have unintended negative consequences.
Rose, one of two nurse-midwives on duty in a hospital labour ward in Southern Tanzania, slumps down into a chair and lets out a…
New Jobs and Internships in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in November 2024.…
Educating the Future: Enhancing Sexual and Reproductive Health Resources for Young Adults
By: Patience Castleton, PhD Candidate at the Robinson Research Institute and the School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Australia; Salima Meherali, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Nursing; Zohra Lassi, PhD,…
Packing the Drape
By: Isabella Ochieng, nurse midwife and maternal and newborn health technical advisor for Jhpiego, worked on the E-MOTIVE trial.
I double checked my packing list in preparation for my trip to Rwanda. Three weeks away from my home in Kenya was a long…
Forced Sterilizations and Maternal Health in the Canadian Context
By: Hani Rukh-E-Qamar, Founder and Executive Director of the Canadian Advisory of Women Immigrants (CAWI), currently pursuing a Master of Science in Epidemiology at McGill University; Harini P. Aiyer, PhD, MS, Health equity and global health researcher ;…
Maternal Health on the Frontlines of Climate Change
By: Saba Nisa, Master of Nursing student at the University of Alberta; Salima Meherali, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Nursing; Yared Asmare Aynalem, PhD student at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta; Zohra…
Disaggregated Data Key to Tackling Low Maternal Vaccination Rates among Boston’s Black Pregnant Population
By: Jodian Pinkney, Infectious Diseases Physician. She is currently a Fellow in the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and is enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health MPH-45 program in Health Policy with a concentration in…
The Role of Drug Repurposing in Pregnancy
By: Katarzyna Borkowski, Former FDA ORISE Fellow, working with the Office of Medical Policy; current oncology research nurse at the NIH.; Maggie McCoy, Former Health Policy and Communications Intern with the Cure Drug Repurposing Collaboratory, currently…