Contributor Posts

By: Alice Irene Whittaker-Cumming, Executive Director, Mother Nature Partnership Alice Irene Whittaker-Cumming The language that we use is important. The words that we choose to communicate our ideas reveal where our priorities are, and they inform…

By: Sarah Dwyer, Communications Manager, CapacityPlus/IntraHealth International This post is part of our “Supporting the Human in Human Resources” blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force and Jacaranda Health “Things…

By: Rebecca Sheldon, Communications, MCHIP This article was originally posted by MCHIP on July 18th, 2014 In recent years, Cambodia has received international praise for improvements in maternal and child health. The Ministry…

By: Helen de Pinho, Associate Director, Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, Columbia University; Shanon McNab, Senior Program Officer, Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, Columbia University This post is part of…

By: Vandana Tripathi, Deputy Director, Fistula Care Plus, EngenderHealth EngenderHealth, which leads the USAID-supported Fistula Care Plus (FC+) project, and the Maternal Health Task Force recently co-convened two meetings on obstetric fistula in Boston,…

By: Paige Sholar, Writing and Communications Intern, Penda Health This post is part of our “Supporting the Human in Human Resources” blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force and Jacaranda Health. Penda Health has built a chain of…

By: Faith Muigai, Director of Clinical Operations, Jacaranda Health; Shalmali Radha Karnad, Clinical Programs Manager, Jacaranda Health This post is part of our “Supporting the Human in Human Resources” blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task…

By: Kirsten Gagnaire, Executive Director, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) This post is part of our recurring series, mHealth Monday As the international development community increasingly shifts its focus to a post-2015 agenda, we must…

By: Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer Wilma Ajiiba, an HHP in South Sudan, teaches women about the importance of giving birth in a health facility. (Photo courtesy of Kate Holt/Jhpiego.) In South Sudan, decades of civil war have wreaked havoc…

By: Katrina Braxton, Program Assistant, The Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative Over the last two decades, social accountability has emerged as a strategy to make health services more responsive to community needs. It’s an approach that…