Maternal Health

Over the last three weeks, we've heard from authors around the world who have seen concrete practice and policy results from their articles in our MHTF-PLOS Collection for Maternal Health. Our Translating Research into Practice Series featured these…

By: Research in Gender and Ethics (RinGs) Steering Committee This post is the first in the Woman-Centered Universal Health Coverage Series, hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force and USAID|TRAction, which discusses the…

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The paper—When Women Deliver with No One Present in Nigeria: Who, what, where and so what, published in MHTF-PLOS Year Two collection—revealed that over one in five births in Nigeria was delivered with no one present (NOP) and 94% of those deliveries…

Young mother and child,India. The International Development Design Summit (IDDS) is an intense, hands-on design experience that brings together people from all walks of life to co-create low cost technologies that improve the livelihoods of people…

Jane Hirst, Nuffield Medical Fellow, University of Oxford, INTERGROWTH-21st Consortium Preterm birth, or birth before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy, is now the greatest single cause of mortality in children less than 5 years old and is associated with…

While a maternal death is devastating in its own right, a mother’s death is not an isolated event; when a mother dies there are immediate and lasting repercussions for her children, her family, and the broader community. As the dawn of the Sustainable…

Over the last three years, the MHTF has partnered with PLoS to put together an annual collection on maternal health. These open-access collections were curated with the goal of increasing access to comprehensive research to global maternal health…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Are newborn growth charts one size fits all? Are growth charts developed based on how babies in the U.S. have grown in the past applicable in the U.S. today,…

Jobs: Technical Advisor, Gender (FHI 360) Senior Program Officer, Maternal Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) (Gates) Head of Gender Equality (CARE) Fellowships: Investigating the impact of mobile technology on Maternal Child Healthcare…