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We are excited to announce the keynote speakers for the Global Maternal Health Symposium! Please join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Maternal Health Task Force, showcase achievements in global maternal health and chart a course forward for…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: Although large amounts of data about health service provision and population health are produced for health management information systems (HMIS), evidence of…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: In Myanmar, non-MNCH care tasks and limited practice on core MNCH activities lead to midwife overload and reduced competency in some MNCH activities. A modified…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: Lesotho’s predominantly rural population faces significant health impacts due to challenges to equitable distribution of the health workforce. Nurses and midwives…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: While donors commonly introduce innovative practices and technologies to improve health in low-income settings many innovations that are found to be effective are…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: Ethiopia’s National Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) system was introduced in 2013 and aims to create an ongoing cycle of data collection,…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: Existing methods for measurement of maternal death in India give only aggregate maternal mortality ratios and do not provide information on who the women dying…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 In India, maternal death review provides detailed information on various factors at community and facility levels that influence maternal health outcomes. A key challenge is…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: Our long-term goal is to improve maternal-infant outcomes in low-resource settings by improving quality of antenatal care (ANC). In the US, CenteringPregnancy…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality persists as one of the most important challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Women and newborns continue to…