Maternal Health

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant A new report, “Maternal Health from 1985-2013: Hopeful Progress and Enduring Challenges,”  commissioned by the MacArthur Foundation, traces the history of global efforts to define priorities, mobilize action and…

The WHO recently released a draft version of the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) for public comment. The ENAP addresses progress toward improving newborn survival in recent years, along with persistent challenges for accelerating progress. It also notes…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The WHO has published Strategies, tactics and approaches: Conducting and evaluating national civil society advocacy for  reproductive, maternal and child health,  based on  2012 consultation on the role of…

Our colleagues at Jacaranda Health and the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Health are now accepting applications from qualified maternal health professionals. Jacaranda Health is seeking a Knowledge/Special Projects Manager to: Join the management…

The following was originally posted on PLOS  Blogs PLOS Medicine and the MHTF review highlights of the second successful collection, as part of their 3 Year partnership focusing on improving Maternal Health globally. Back in late 2012 the…

Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 28, the MHTF is hosting a seminar on perinatal health led by Stephen Kennedy and Jose Villar, co-directors of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute and moderated by Ana Langer, Director of the Women & Health…

This week, St. John’s Research Institute in Bangalore, India, welcomed the inaugural class of the Maternal Health Young Professionals (MHYP) program. The program, designed to strengthen the research skills of young health care professionals in…

USAID, in partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the MCHIP and Evidence to Action Project (E2A) are now accepting abstracts for possible inclusion as individual presentations or preformed panels at the upcoming…

The MHTF and our partners at UNFPA and the Wilson Center are convening Maternal Health and HIV: Global Priorities for Research and Action, the latest in the ongoing MH Dialogues series today at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. The dialogue will…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the partners behind the Saving Mothers Giving Life (SMGL) initiative presented the results of the first year of the initiative in eight…