Contributor Posts

By: Shrey Desai, Research Coordinator at SEWA Rural Could you give us an overview of your work as it pertains to maternal health and/or mHealth? SEWA Rural is a voluntary organization with over three decades of experience of working with Community…

By: Venture Strategies Innovations As new post-2015 targets and strategies to end preventable maternal deaths are being discussed and debated, we have the opportunity to leverage the progress made over the past decade by scaling up proven…

By: Dr. Jane Hirst, Nuffield Medical Fellow, University of Oxford As rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes rise around the world, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is becoming increasingly common. GDM is a condition where blood glucose levels in…

By: Julia Dae Rubin, Zanzibar Program Manager, D-TREE International Could you provide an overview of D-TREE’s projects? D-TREE enables community and facility health workers to deliver high quality health care in low and middle income countries by…

By: Abby Beaudette, MPH; Ashley Thomas, MPH; Caitlin Denning, MPH; Dr. James Wolff, ; Justin Maly, MPH; Marion McNabb, MPH, Boston University School of Public Health Could you give us an overview of your projects in mHealth and/or maternal health? …

By: Dr. Luther-King Fasehun, Technical and Policy Lead, The Wellbeing Foundation Africa As we approach the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, what does the future hold for international maternal mortality targets? The MHTF is pleased to…

By: Marc Mitchell, Founder and President of D-TREE International and lecturer on global health at the Harvard School of Public Health The Maternal Health Task Force is excited to announce the launch of its new blog series and topics page on mHealth…

By: Christy Turlington Burns, Founder, Every Mother Counts Anniversaries make us look back and project forward on all the events and opportunities that bring us closer to our goals.  As we celebrate the first anniversary of the Maternal Health…

By: Ciro Franco, Senior Principal Technical Advisor for MNCH In celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Manifesto for Maternal Health, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) congratulates our global community, including ministries of health,…

By: Purnima Mane, Pathfinder I recall reading the Manifesto for Maternal Health with appreciation for the strategies delineated but regret that many of the actions identified had not received the deserved attention earlier. I felt optimistic that…