Contributor Posts

By Kisha D. Semenuk, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists In the United States Black women will experience 3-4x more severe maternal complications than white women and overall the majority of maternal deaths are preventable. To tackle the…

By: Linda Goler Blount, President and CEO, Black Women’s Health Imperative This post is part of “Inequities in Maternal Mortality in the U.S.,” a blog series hosted by the MHTF. We’ve heard it all before. Health disparities continue to affect…

By: Katherine Semrau, Director of the BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Associate Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity Although great…

By Nan Strauss, Director of Policy and Research, Choices in Childbirth As is true worldwide, strategies to improve U.S. maternal health are widely known but remain unavailable to many women. New York City (NYC), known for its prestigious medical schools…

By Priya Agrawal, Executive Director, Merck for Mothers It’s hard to believe that the United States (U.S.) ranks 46th in the world when it comes to the rate of women dying from pregnancy and childbirth complications. Our country’s maternal mortality…

By: Allisyn Moran, Senior Maternal Health Advisor, USAID Last month in Mexico City at the Global Maternal and Newborn Health Conference, we discussed a variety of important topics for improving maternal and newborn health. The main themes of the…

By: Laura Line, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Maternity Care Coalition This post is part of “Inequities in Maternal Mortality in the U.S.,” a blog series hosted by the MHTF. While internationally maternal mortality rates have been falling, the…

By Suha Patel. As a maternal health provider, I would love to know what women think about the care my colleagues and I provide. I need more comprehensive, high quality information about the patient experience in the maternal health care system than my…

By Elizabeth Dawes Gay. Last month, over a thousand people gathered in Mexico City for the Global Maternal and Newborn Health Conference. Much of the discourse centered on improving health care for mothers and babies, as it tends to both globally and…

By Neel Shah, Associate Faculty at the Ariadne Labs for Health Systems Innovation When it comes to childbirth, the United States of America seems to combine the problems of the third world and the first world into a perfect storm. On one hand, 50% of…