Maternal Health

At the Maternal Health Task Force, we believe mothers and newborns will achieve the care they need as long as talented and enthusiastic people continue to work and advocate for improved outcomes. As such, we’d like to share opportunities available…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In a landmark decision, the World Bank, the United States, and governments of Canada and Norway announced at the 69th UN General Assembly their…

The death of a woman in pregnancy or childbirth is a tragedy. Yet the tragedy is not only her absence, but how her absence impacts her family and community. Join us on Tuesday, October 7th, as we support the event “Women’s Lives…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Skilled birth attendants are one of the most effective tools to decreasing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. Although many women do not…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Next week the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF), along with other global experts, will gather in Cape Town at the Third Global Symposium on Health…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health We can count today as a victory for women around the world. Today the World Health Organization (WHO) released the consensus statement “Prevention…

At the end of August and at the beginning of this month we featured an interview with Cris Alonso, Director of the Luna Maya birth center in Chiapas, Mexico. Here she shares with us her insights on the broader maternal health environment – from obstetric…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health On September 9th and 10th, the Maternal Health Task Force and Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives program convened experts in Boston to…

This blog post originally appeared on blogs.plos.org In November 2013, PLOS Medicine and the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) called for submissions to the third year of the MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health. Today we…

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