mHealth for Maternal Health Series

By: Leonardo Chavane, National Senior Advisor for Mozambique, MCHIP & JHPIEGO This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Health Integration Blog Series, which shares themes of and reactions to the “Integration of Maternal and Newborn…

By: Yogeeta Manglani, Research Assistant, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Despite hundreds of pilot studies, the general consensus among the mHealth community is that we lack sufficient evidence to inform scale up of programs.…

Guest post by Averting Maternal Disability and Death (AMDD) and SAHAYOG Despite the investment of enormous resources by India’s central government and the Uttar Pradesh state government in creating demand for facility childbirth and ensuring free…

By: Shrey Desai, Research Coordinator at SEWA Rural Could you give us an overview of your work as it pertains to maternal health and/or mHealth? SEWA Rural is a voluntary organization with over three decades of experience of working with Community…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Last week, 50 implementers, experts and donors from the mHealth and maternal health communities gathered in Boston for a meeting titled “mHealth for…

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By: Kelly L’Engle, Behavioral Scientist at Family Health International (FHI) 360; Nick Pearson, Founder and Executive Director at Jacaranda Health mHealth for Maternal Health is an ongoing blog series that aims to share the knowledge and…

By: Dr. Jane Hirst, Nuffield Medical Fellow, University of Oxford As rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes rise around the world, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is becoming increasingly common. GDM is a condition where blood glucose levels in…

By: Julia Dae Rubin, Zanzibar Program Manager, D-TREE International Could you provide an overview of D-TREE’s projects? D-TREE enables community and facility health workers to deliver high quality health care in low and middle income countries by…