Maternal Health

By: Raji Mohanam, Over the course of the mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., I saw and heard about some amazing new mobile phone-based tools that have the potential to dramatically improve–even revolutionize– global health. In fact, many…

By: Tim Thomas, Senior Advisor, MHTF Day two of the Partner’s Forum on Women’s and Children’s Health in Delhi turned out to be much more substantive than day one. The opening plenary obliquely titled Accelerating Action for…

By: Tim Thomas, Senior Advisor, MHTF On the sidelines of the political posturing and rhetoric at the Partners’ Forum on Women’s & Children’s Health sponsored by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health underway at the…

Recently on the MHTF blog: Raji Mohanam wrote about her time at the mHealth Summit Julianne Parker wrote about her work in Brazil We informed you about our other blog, GlobalMama Sara Al Lamki described a night at a “make-shift…

By: Sara Al-Lamki, Young Champion of Maternal Health This blog post was contributed by Sara Al Lamki, one of the fifteen Young Champions of Maternal Health chosen by Ashoka and the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth. She will be blogging about…

Just in time for the mHealth Summit, The Lancet published an evaluation of an SMS initiative (gated) to improve antiretroviral therapy (ART) at clinics in Kenya. Patients were randomly assigned to groups, one of which would receive text messages from…

What is the most efficient way to reduce carbon emissions and limit climate change? Family planning and female education, according to a recent paper by David Wheeler and Dan Hammer of the Center for Global Development: Using recent data on…

Updated November 12 We’ve revamped our Statistics and Projects pages on the MHTF website. The Statistics page now includes links to answers for some frequently asked questions about maternal health and more details about sources for maternal…

By: Raji Mohanam, I was struck by the insightful comments from panelist Patricia Mechael, Director of Strategic Application of Mobile Technology for Public Health at Columbia University. She spoke at today’s ‘Super Session’ on Lessons…

In addition to our blog here, we post on Medscape through our blog GlobalMama. Past posts on GlobalMama include: The LifeWrap: A Simple Solution to Prevent Maternal Death Maternal Health Accountability: Lessons Learned & Recommendations …