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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…
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…