Global Leaders in Maternal and Newborn Health

By: Bethany Kotlar, MPH, Associate Directer of the Maternal Health Task Force At the 10th anniversary celebration of the Maternal Health Task Force, The Global Maternal Health Symposium, 10 Maternal Health Visionary awards were presented. The…

Professor Clara Menéndez, one of the faculty leading the workshop, is a research professor at the Institute of Global Health at the University of Barcelona, and she was also one of the founders of the Manhica Health Research Center in Mozambique. She has…

Dr. Nosa Orobaton, one of the faculty at the Safe Mothers and Newborns Leadership Workshop, is originally from Nigeria. He has worked all over the globe in leadership capacities at the World Health Organization (WHO), John Snow, Inc. and The Global Fund…

Dr. Eshetu Bekele Yimenu is a young leader working at Save the Children International as Director of Research and Uptake leading the Research, Child Rights Governance and Campaigns Department in Ethiopia. In the latest post in the Global Leaders in…

Professor Marleen Temmerman is Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Aga Khan University (AKU) Hospital Nairobi and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health AKU – East Africa. Prior to that, she was the Director of…

SMNLW participant Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health and the Founding Director of the Center of…

Safe Mothers and Newborns Leadership Workshop participant Maria Fernandez Elorriaga is the principal investigator and technical coordinator of a study investigating the use of the World Health Organization Safe Childbirth Checklist to improve the quality…

SMNLW participant Patrick Mwesigye is from Kampala, Uganda. He is the Founder/CEO of the Uganda Youth and Adolescents Health Forum, a community-based organization that aims to empower young women and support youth engagement. He is also the Vice…

Safe Mothers and Newborns Leadership Workshop participant Dr. Hemant Shah is Chief of Party, Technical Support Unit for CARE. He previously worked as the Director of the State reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent unit in Bihar as well as a…

Safe Mothers and Newborns Leadership Workshop participant Dr. Joannie Bewa is an obstetrician/gynecologist from Benin and Founder of the Young Beninese Leaders Association. She is also a fellow of the US Government International Visitor Leadership…