Maternal Health

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The concept of preconception care has emerged in recent years as a potentially vital tool for not only improving adolescent girls’ and women’s chances of having healthy pregnancies and newborns, but of supporting their…

ICAP is holding a webinar on September 12 from 9:00 am – 10:00 am (EDT). The webinar will feature speakers from ICAP’s Global Nurse Capacity Building Program, and the WHO’s Department of Health Systems Policies and Workforce.  To join the webinar,…

By: Grace Lesser, Knowledge Manager, Jacaranda Health This post originally appeared on the cross-posted from the Jacaranda Health blog. To learn more about Jacaranda’s work, visit their website.  Human-centered design (HCD) has been part of…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Maternal health advocates often point out that when a mother dies from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, her surviving family members, particularly her children are left to face a range of negative effects. And,…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Recently, our colleagues at the Wilson Center hosted “Oysters, Octopus and Resilience,”an event  whose title does not immediately suggest a strong link with maternal health. And, indeed, the event featured…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant This week, the Guttmacher Institute released new reports on the issue of unsafe abortion in Kenya and Pakistan, two countries where abortion-related complications help to drive persistent high levels of maternal mortality…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Yesterday, on World Humanitarian Day, K4Health launched a new Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings toolkit, a set of resources that offer guidance for health care providers, emergency workers, communications…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In “Ending preventable maternal deaths: the time is now” published today in The Lancet Global Health, a group of maternal health experts call on the global health community to not only commit to ending preventable…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In general, discussions about care during labor and delivery tend to focus on two groups: women who deliverwith assistance from a skilled birth attendant, such as a midwife or doctor, and those who do not, as giving birth…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The Translating Research into Action (TRAction) Project is inviting applications for case studies documenting interventions that have sought to improve the recognition and response to maternal and/or newborn complications…