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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Blog
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mHealth: But Does it Work?
Just in time for the mHealth Summit, The Lancet published an evaluation of an SMS initiative (gated) to improve antiretroviral therapy (ART) at clinics in Kenya. Patients were randomly assigned…
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Climate Change and Family Planning
What is the most efficient way to reduce carbon emissions and limit climate change? Family planning and female education, according to a recent paper by David Wheeler and Dan Hammer…
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New/Updated Pages
Updated November 12 We’ve revamped our Statistics and Projects pages on the MHTF website. The Statistics page now includes links to answers for some frequently asked questions about maternal health…
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Day 2 at the mHealth Summit: Ten “Commandments” for the mHealth community
By: Raji Mohanam, I was struck by the insightful comments from panelist Patricia Mechael, Director of Strategic Application of Mobile Technology for Public Health at Columbia University. She spoke at…
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MHTF on Medscape
In addition to our blog here, we post on Medscape through our blog GlobalMama. Past posts on GlobalMama include: We’ll let you know here when we post on GlobalMama, but…
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Day 1 at the mHealth Summit: Ideas, Challenges, Opportunities
By: Raji Mohanam, The three-day mHealth Summit began today in Washington DC, with over 2,000 experts from both public and private sectors coming together to discuss how innovative mobile technologies…
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Nutrition for Mothers and Children
The first 1,000 days of child’s life, including for mothers while pregnant, are key to a child’s development and future. Malnutrition during this period can have detrimental effects that last…
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Passo a Passo
By: Julianne Parker, Young Champion of Maternal Health This blog post was contributed by Julianne Parker, one of the sixteen Young Champions of Maternal Health chosen by Ashoka and the…
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Expanding Access to Essential Maternal Health Commodities
Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the ninth event of the series on Advancing…
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Knowledge Management Assistant Vacancy
The Knowledge Management (KM) unit of the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) requires a highly motivated KM Assistant to help coordinate and support the MHTF KM strategy and tactics. The…