Maternal Health

The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world’s leading global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,200 professionals and students from all 50 states and from more than 55 countries. This must-attend,…

Young Champion of Maternal Health Zubaida Bai has developed a birth kit that is a finalist for the INDEX: Award 2011. Zubaida’s was based in Boston during the YC program and had the opportunity to work with HealthLeads. More information on her internship…

Even though 350,000 women die due to pregnancy related causes each year, maternal deaths are still a relatively rare event. While this doesn’t mean we should not concern ourselves with maternal mortality, it does mean that measuring it and its…

This week on the MHTF blog: Shafia Rashid wrote about misoprostol and PPH Maternal health in Uganda was featured in the NYT We attended the USAID Maternal Health Technical Series on PPH and PE/E Emily Puckart wrote about integration and…

By: Celia Pett, Medical Associate, EngenderHealth A needle-free non-refrigerated aerosol formulation of oxytocin for treatment of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), a low-cost portable newborn respiratory support unit, and an ingenious device for facilitating…

Enhancing health through the use of mobile technologies December 5-9, 2011, Washington DC in conjunction with the 2011 mHealth Summit Using mobile technologies to more rapidly and accurately assess and modify behavior, biological states and…

By: Emily Puckart, Program Associate, MHTF This is the third post by Emily Puckart on “Maternal Health Challenges in Kenya: What New Research Shows.” Read the first and the second. Integration is a word I hear quite often in the maternal…

Yesterday afternoon, a group of maternal health practitioners met at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Dr. Jeffrey M. Smith of MCHIP gave a presentation on a report he co-authored called “Prevention and Management of Postpartum…

Recently, The New York Times featured a piece on free health care in Sierra Leone for mothers and children. Maternal health had another prominent space in The Times last weekend with a discussion of maternal deaths in Uganda, which have led to a lawsuit…

By: Shafia Rashid, Senior Program Officer, Global Advocacy, Family Care International The following was originally posted on FCI’s blog. It is reposted here with permission. Around the corner from the New York Stock Exchange, where financial…