Maternal Health

This week on the MHTF blog: How simple are simple solutions? Another grand challenge from Saving Lives at Birth Vote for the Women Deliver 50 Contribute to our International Women’s Day campaign Some reading for the weekend: A…

In honor of International Women’s Day (March 8th), the Maternal Health Task Force is planning to highlight the important work that your organization is doing to improve the health of women around the world.   Last year, the MHTF invited…

This week Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development announced a second round of awards for innovative approaches and solutions to improve the lives of mothers and children: Over the course of the program, the partners aim to invest at…

As part of their campaign for International Women’s Day, Women Deliver is identifying the “top 50 inspiring ideas and solutions that deliver for girls and women.” The winners will be features on Women Deliver’s website as well as…

The rhetoric surrounding international development and global health (definitely including maternal health) often refers to simple solutions, particularly low-cost simple solutions. Karen Grepin, a professor at NYU, challenges this rhetoric and argues…

This week on the MHTF blog: Mhealth and the poorest of the poor A project update on BRAC’s Manoshi Project A job opportunity with the MHTF Youth Scholarship application opens for Women Deliver 2013 A maternal health exhibit at the…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tS5qQxmZSs Can’t see the video? View it on YouTube   The International Museum of Women, an online museum that “showcases art, stories and ideas to celebrate, inspire and advance the lives of women…

Women Deliver will be providing a number of scholarships for Women Deliver 2013. The process has begun with the Youth Scholarship application, and the general scholarship will be available soon as well.   From our colleagues at Women…

By: Emily Puckart, Program Associate, MHTF BRAC’s Manoshi project works to establish a community-based health program in urban slum areas of Bangladesh in order to reduce maternal and child mortality. In May 2010, BRAC instituted a mHealth project…

Although mobile phone penetration is incredibly high, even in poor countries, there is concern that mobile based interventions may not be able to reach the poorest of the poor. While looking at M-PESA, a mobile money program in Kenya, Jamie M. Zimmerman…