Maternal Health

NPR Reports on the Critical Role of Midwives in Conflict Zones
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative NPR’s Shots recently ran a story, How midwives have become critical in war-zones, that discusses the role of midwives in conflict and post-conflict…

Apply Now: Program Implementation Workshop on Postpartum Hemorrhage
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), along with partners at Population Services International (PSI), Venture Strategies…

New Content Added to the MHTF-PLOS Maternal Health Collection
By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine Image credit: Jack Zalium, Richard Basset We’re delighted to announce the addition of new content to our Maternal Health Task Force-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health. This Year 2…

Atul Gawande on "Slow Ideas" and Maternal Health
In Atul Gawande’s recent piece in the New Yorker, Slow ideas: Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t?, he takes a careful look at the uptake of various medical innovations with special attention to the very…

Young Champions Share Their Wishes for Maternal Health
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative As our Young Champions of Maternal Health pass the nine-month fellowship program’s midpoint, we asked them to reflect on their wishes for maternal…

Join the Conversation: Sex, Money, and Birth Control
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative The Thomson Reuters Foundation and the World Bank are teaming up on Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 at 3pm London time (GMT+1)/ 10 am EST for a live online…