Maternal Health

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Image credit: Jack Zalium, Flickr The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and PLOS Medicine are committed to creating a platform for sharing critical…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In “How evolution of the human brain shaped women’s sexual  and  reproductive health,”  an article published recently in Reproductive Biology Insights, Mahmoud Fathalla explores the ways that biological…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant This week, The Lancet launched a series on the remarkable progress and remaining challenges for improving health in Bangladesh, focusing on what The Lancet’s Bangladesh study team calls the Bangladesh paradox:…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In this month’s edition of the web seminar series organized by our colleagues at IDEAS, Dr. Tanya Marchant, IDEAS Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology will lead a session on writing a scientific paper for peer review…

By: Natalie Ramm, Communications Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Young Champions Cohort 2 (2013) Over the course of the last nine months, the Young Champions have each designed projects focused on a specific…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Every year, 15 million babies are born too soon – that’s 1 in every 10 births.  Preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn deaths globally, affecting…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant This week, as donors, health program leaders, researchers, policy makers and advocates from around the world are meeting at the International Conference on Family Planning in Addis Ababa to discuss evidence, programming…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant World Prematurity Day is this Sunday, November 17, and beginning Friday, November 15, organizations around the world will be highlighting the critical challenge of addressing premature birth. Groups will publish new…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant UNFPA reported yesterday that in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, 200,000 pregnant women now face an uncertain future, as health services struggle to provide even the most basic services, with many facilities destroyed…

By: Alison El Ayadi, UCSF Safe Motherhood Program; Suellen Miller, UCSF Safe Motherhood Program Imagine that you are a nurse midwife, the only staff member in a busy primary health center in rural Nigeria. At least once per month a woman will arrive…