Maternal Health

By: Gary Darmstadt and Wendy Prosser, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This post was originally posted on Impatient Optimists and is reposted here with permission. The Ministry of Health in Brazil has taken enormous strides to improve maternal and…

Late last year, the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted a Maternal Health Dialogue Series event on maternal morbidities in developing countries based in part on a report written by Karen Hardee, Jill Gay, and former MHTF Director Ann Blanc.   The…

Last weekend, the UK celebrated Mother’s Day. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) highlighted the work they support to improve the lives of mothers around the world and engaged advocates for maternal health.   On…

This week on the MHTF blog: Save the Date for GMHC2013 Will there be a 2015 UN Conference on Women? A final project report from Future Generations Two Opportunities for funding in maternal health Some reading for the weekend: …

The mHealth Alliance, in partnership with the Innovation Working Group, the UN Secretary-General’s Every Woman Every Child global strategy and the Norwegian Development Cooperation Agency (Norad) recently issued a Call for Letters of Interest (LOI) for…

Last week, on International Women’s Day, the President of the General Assembly and the United Nations Secretary-General jointly proposed the convening of a global conference on women by the UN in 2015, 20 years after the last women’s summit…

The following is the final installment of a series of project updates from Future Generations. MHTF is supporting their project, Using Pregnancy Histories to Help Mothers, based in Peru. More information on MHTF supported projects can be found here. …

Leadership Development for Enhanced Decision-Making   From our colleagues at the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research: The WHO Implementation Research Platform (IRP) has issued a Call for Proposals: Leadership Development for…

The Maternal Health Task Force and Management and Development for Health are delighted to announce the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013: Improving Quality of Care.   What: GMHC2013 will bring together approximately 700 scientists,…

This week on the MHTF blog: What is the relationship between intimate partner violence and maternal health? An opportunity to work with Jacaranda Health Who made the Women Deliver 50? MCHIP’s Koki Agarwal wrote about misoprostol We…