Maternal Health

By: Dr. Sara Nam, Technical Consultant, Options Consultancy Services; Patricia Doherty, Assistant Technical Director, Options Consultancy Services It is well known that women who have a positive experience with family planning (FP) and sexual and…

By: Elnaz Guivatchian MPH MD(c), Elnaz earned her MPH in Health Promotion from the University of Southern California and is currently a second-year medical student at Wayne State University.; Lara Rostomian MS MD(c), Associate Director of the Maternal…

By: Mary Kathryn Phillips, PhD, CNM, is a retired Naval Officer. She practices midwifery at a large tertiary center in Southern California and she chairs the Nurse Midwife Advisory Committee at the California Board of Registered Nurses. In the…

By: Dr. Justine A. Kavle, ; Joseph Gaithuma, Why is the 1,000-day window critical for nutrition, health & well-being for women & children? The first 1,000 days refers to the period from conception until 2 years of age- a period of…

By: Destiny Davis, Program Coordinator, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The US has some of the highest maternal morbidity and mortality rates, with Black women disproportionately affected. Time…

By: Canadian Advisory of Women Immigrants (CAWI), Hani Rukh-E-Qamar, Rehma Khan, Roma Ranade, Crystal Yang, Naomi Phung, Isabella Kakish, Ana Dumitrache, Marianne Djigo, Yasemin Erdogan, Saba Al-Leswas, and Ushna Masroor Immigrant women are among those…

By: Yeeun Lee, Master’s Student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Research Assistant at the Maternal Health Task Force Whether you know it or not, indicator validity matters to you. To illustrate why, let’s take the problem of…

By: Bethany Kotlar, MPH, Associate Directer of the Maternal Health Task Force   The burden of maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains high, notwithstanding heavy investment in maternal healthcare. Historically,…

By Ada Ezeokoli (MHTF Research Assistant) Do pregnant women need a malaria vaccine? Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels Atinuke, a young professional in Abuja, Nigeria, was watching CNN when she saw the news that the World Health Organization…

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Africa Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH) Policy…