Maternal Health

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health For the first time it can be said that fetal growth and birth size is not predetermined by genetics, but by the health status of the mother. Fetal…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This post is part one of two in our family planning feature this week A new article just released from scholars at Harvard School of Public…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This post is part two of two in our family planning feature this week Building on the emphasis at the PMNCH Partners’ Forum this week of…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Yesterday, Carolyn Miles, President & CEO of Save the Children, added her influential voice on the Huffington Post Blog in her article, Can a…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This year, WHO’s Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) Working Group, including experts from the MHTF, have been working together to help…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Today and tomorrow up to 800 maternal, newborn, and child health leaders will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa at the 2014 World Health…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health USAID and the Governments of Ethiopia and India, in collaboration with UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, hosted a meeting on…

With the end of Millennium Development Goals and the start of the Sustainable Development Goals, the year 2015 is a critical time for redefining priorities and strategies for women’s health. Recognizing this unique time, Pan American Journal of Public…

By: Katrina Braxton, Program Assistant, The Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative Over the last two decades, social accountability has emerged as a strategy to make health services more responsive to community needs. It’s an approach that…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Today, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, The Lancet launched its newest series Midwifery. This series provides concrete…