Maternal Health

The Maternal Health Task Force and its Editorial Committee, in collaboration with NHS Evidence, recently compiled a list of  “Must Read” articles in maternal health. The list of articles is accessible here under the Key Resources…

Late last week our friend and colleague Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations released this response to a request from Capitol Hill staffers. Laurie and her team have gathered and analyzed a great deal of…

This guest blog post was written by the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases staff. According to the new maternal mortality estimates recently published in the Lancet, 342,900 women die annually while pregnant or from childbirth. This is a…

Eight innovative ideas for transforming the field of maternal health are finalists in the online competition “Healthy Mothers, Strong World: The Next Generation of Ideas for Maternal Health,” sponsored by The Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth…

Human Rights Watch has been nominated for a Webby Award for their video, In Silence: Maternal Mortality in India. Photographer Susan Meiselas and reporter Dumeetha Luthra traveled to India for Human Rights Watch to document the story of Kiran Yadav, an…

Don’t forget! This event is this Thursday, April 29th! Please join the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative and Environmental Change and Security Program, the…

By: Bram Brooks, MPH; David Hamer, MD April 25th (this Sunday) is World Malaria Day. Recently, researchers from the Center for Global Health and Development at Boston University and the Indian National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR) conducted…

You may have seen our post on Monday that linked to the new maternal mortality estimates published in the Lancet. It is exciting to see that several leading media outlets (both print and online) are covering the new findings of dramatic…

Amnesty International will convene three public town hall meetings with Amnesty International leaders and local partner organizations. The three events will be held in San Francisco (April 14th), Detroit (April 17th), and New York City (April 19th). …

The paper, Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5,was published today, April 12th, 2010, in the Lancet Online First–and will soon be published in the Lancet print…