MMR Estimates Series

An event at the 68th World Health Assembly will showcase a combined strategic approach using the EPMM and ENAP frameworks to accelerate progress, and feature examples from country champions of successful models of integration at national policy and…

By: Manuelle Hurwitz, Senior Adviser, Abortion, International Planned Parenthood Federation; Rebecca Wilkins, Programme Officer, Abortion, International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPF welcomes the research released by IHME and the WHO providing new…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health If you have been following the news and our MMR Estimates Blog Series, you know that the WHO and IHME recently released new global estimates for…

By: Mengistu Hailemariam, MD, Maternal Health Advisor, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia The April 2014 Technical Consultation on Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality, Post-2015 Target Setting (EPMM) meeting in Bangkok yielded invaluable implications for…

By: Affette McCaw-Binns, Professor of Reproductive Health and Epidemiology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica In the same week IHME and the WHO provided the maternal health community with much on which to masticate; regional data on the causes…

For those of us working to improve the health of women and children around the world, this is the kind of news we wait for with great anticipation: This week, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the World Health Organization (WHO),…

The controversial research reporting unexpected gains in maternal health, published April 12 in the Lancet, has triggered rigorous debate about the measurement tools used to count maternal deaths globally and at a country level. The paper, Maternal…

EarthSky: A Clear Voice for Science has posted two podcast interviews with Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington—and principal author of  the April 2010 study published in the…

By: Lucia D’Ambruoso and David Braunholtz, IMMPACT The Maternal Health Task Force is looking to those working in maternal health to comment on the recent findings published in the Lancet that suggest a dramatic reduction in global maternal mortality. …

By: Dr. Harshad Sanghvi, Vice President and Medical Director, Jhpiego The Maternal Health Task Force is looking to those working in maternal health to comment on the recent findings published in the Lancet that suggest a dramatic reduction in global…