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Maternal Health Task Force

The Maternal Health Task Force strives to create a strong, well-informed and collaborative community of individuals focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide.

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677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Blog

  • December 28, 2011

    Partograph Meeting Reflections, Ctd

    More from Barbara Kwast on the partograph meeting: The meeting called by Fistula Care and the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at Engender Health on revitalizing the partograph for the…

  • December 21, 2011

    Maternal Health Dialogue Series Report Available

    Over the past two years, the Woodrow Wilson Center has convened a number of public and private focusing on neglected issues in maternal health and strategies to move the maternal…

  • December 20, 2011

    New Interactive Timeline

    Over the past three years, the MHTF has done a wide variety of activities, including, but certainly not limited to, hosting meetings and conferences, identifying innovative approaches to improving maternal…

  • December 19, 2011

    Translating Promise Into Reality: Misoprostol for Post-partum Hemorrhage

    By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International The following originally appeared on the Family Care International blog. It is reposted here with permission. Every five minutes, somewhere in…

  • December 16, 2011

    Weekend Reading

    This week on the MHTF blog: Some reading for the weekend: Related Topics Last Updated Get the latest public health news Stay connected with Harvard Chan School

  • December 16, 2011

    Opportunity with the Women & Health Initiative

    The Women & Health Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health is seeking a Project Manager for the Hansen Project on Maternal and Child Health: The Women and Health…

  • December 16, 2011

    Revitalizing the Partograph: Does the Evidence Support a Global Call to Action?

    By: Celia Pett, Medical Associate, EngenderHealth; Pam Harper, Senior Writer/Editor, Engender Health The following is a summary of a meeting hosted by the Fistula Care Project in New York in…

  • December 16, 2011

    Making Life: A Risky Proposition

    Tonight on ABC’s 20/20, Diane Sawyer and a team of correspondents will explore the state maternal health in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Bangladesh: “There is so much we can do…

  • December 15, 2011

    Today: Delivering Solutions: Advancing Dialogue To Improve Maternal Health

    The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, Environmental Change and Security Program, Africa Program and Council of Women World Leaders in coordination with the Maternal Health Task Force and the…

  • December 14, 2011

    The Alliance for RMNH After One Year

    Written by: Alliance for Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health “It is an international scandal that more than 350,000 women die in the developing world every year from complications in pregnancy…