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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Maternal Mortality, Human Rights and Accountability
In September in Geneva, experts in human rights and maternal health gathered to discuss “good practices regarding maternal death audits, the role of national human rights institutions, and the contribution…
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Linkages Among Reproductive Health, Maternal Health and Perinatal Outcomes
MHTF Director Ann Blanc published an article in the December 2010 issue of Seminars in Perinatology. She and her colleagues reviewed about 1,000 studies dealing with reproductive health, maternal health,…
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C-Sections on GlobalMama and Caesarean Community of Practice
As we recently mentioned, MHTF also has a blog on Medscape/WebMD and we’ve published a post today on caesarean sections in the United States and throughout the developing world. Also,…
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Call for Abstracts: Global Health Metrics and Evaluation
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, The Lancet, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the University of Queensland School of…
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Celebrate Solutions: The Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project, India
By: Mariko Rasmussen, Program Assistant, Women Deliver This post was originally published on Women Deliver’s blog. Reposted with permission. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula….
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A Doctor in Your Pocket: Mobile Phone-based Innovations Revealed at the mHealth Summit
By: Raji Mohanam, Over the course of the mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., I saw and heard about some amazing new mobile phone-based tools that have the potential to dramatically…
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Partners’ Forum on Women’s & Children’s Health – Day 2
By: Tim Thomas, Senior Advisor, MHTF Day two of the Partner’s Forum on Women’s and Children’s Health in Delhi turned out to be much more substantive than day one. The…
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Partners’ Forum on Women’s & Children’s Health – Day 1
By: Tim Thomas, Senior Advisor, MHTF On the sidelines of the political posturing and rhetoric at the Partners’ Forum on Women’s & Children’s Health sponsored by the Partnership for Maternal,…
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Weekend Reading
Recently 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
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The Night Clinic
By: Sara Al-Lamki, Young Champion of Maternal Health This blog post was contributed by Sara Al Lamki, one of the fifteen Young Champions of Maternal Health chosen by Ashoka and…