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Developing Maternity Care to Reverse Patterns of Violence and Inequality in West Papua
By: Els Tieneke Rieke Katmo, PhD, Lecturer in Social Agribusiness, University of Papua. Els is a gender studies scholar with a doctorate from Flinders University, Australia and an MA from the University of Indonesia.; Jenny Munro, PhD, Senior Lecturer in…
Driving Local Leadership to Meet Family Planning Needs
By: Dr. Sara Nam, Technical Consultant, Options Consultancy Services; Patricia Doherty, Assistant Technical Director, Options Consultancy Services
It is well known that women who have a positive experience with family planning (FP) and sexual and…
Beyond the Battlefield: The Hidden Impacts of War on Maternal Health and The Cost of Academic Indifference
By: Elnaz Guivatchian MPH MD(c), Elnaz earned her MPH in Health Promotion from the University of Southern California and is currently a second-year medical student at Wayne State University.; Lara Rostomian MS MD(c), Associate Director of the Maternal…
Summoning 21st Century Medicine: A Plea to Advance Labor Management
By: Mary Kathryn Phillips, PhD, CNM, is a retired Naval Officer. She practices midwifery at a large tertiary center in Southern California and she chairs the Nurse Midwife Advisory Committee at the California Board of Registered Nurses.
In the…
Opportunities to Strengthen Women’s Nutrition Within Health Services in the United States: Reflections from Global Health Implementation
By: Dr. Justine A. Kavle, ; Joseph Gaithuma,
Why is the 1,000-day window critical for nutrition, health & well-being for women & children?
The first 1,000 days refers to the period from conception until 2 years of age- a period of…
Community-Based Approaches and Improved Training in Black-Serving Hospitals are Crucial for Helping to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes in the Now
By: Destiny Davis, Program Coordinator, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The US has some of the highest maternal morbidity and mortality rates, with Black women disproportionately affected. Time…
One Size Does Not Fit All: Importance of Culturally Sensitive Sexual and Reproductive Health Education for Immigrant Communities
By: Canadian Advisory of Women Immigrants (CAWI), Hani Rukh-E-Qamar, Rehma Khan, Roma Ranade, Crystal Yang, Naomi Phung, Isabella Kakish, Ana Dumitrache, Marianne Djigo, Yasemin Erdogan, Saba Al-Leswas, and Ushna Masroor
Immigrant women are among those…
Meaning and Measurement, Towards High EPMM Indicator Validity
By: Yeeun Lee, Master’s Student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Research Assistant at the Maternal Health Task Force
Whether you know it or not, indicator validity matters to you. To illustrate why, let’s take the problem of…
Challenging the reliance on facility-based childbirth to prevent maternal mortality in low and middle-income countries
By: Bethany Kotlar, MPH, Associate Directer of the Maternal Health Task Force
The burden of maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains high, notwithstanding heavy investment in maternal healthcare. Historically,…
Pregnancy & Mosquitoes: Do we need a malaria vaccine for pregnant women?
By Ada Ezeokoli (MHTF Research Assistant)
Do pregnant women need a malaria vaccine? Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels
Atinuke, a young professional in Abuja, Nigeria, was watching CNN when she saw the news that the World Health Organization…