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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Poor Fetal and Infant Growth is Not Inevitable in Poor Countries
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health For the first time it can be said that fetal growth and birth size…
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New Report on Unmet Need for Contraception
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This post is part one of two in our family planning feature this week…
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Strategies for Increasing Contraception Access to Adolescents
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This post is part two of two in our family planning feature this week…
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CEO & President of Save the Children, Carolyn Miles, Talks Preventable Maternal and Newborn Death
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Yesterday, Carolyn Miles, President & CEO of Save the Children, added her influential voice…
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Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality: A Call for Comments
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This year, WHO’s Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) Working Group, including experts from the…
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PMNCH Partners’ Forum Taking Place Today and Tomorrow in South Africa
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Today and tomorrow up to 800 maternal, newborn, and child health leaders will gather…
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The Role of mHealth for a Post-2015 Agenda
By: Kirsten Gagnaire, Executive Director, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) This post is part of our recurring series, mHealth Monday As the international development community increasingly shifts its focus…
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Acting on the Call: Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health USAID and the Governments of Ethiopia and India, in collaboration with UNICEF and the…
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Call for Papers: Women’s Health in the Americas
With the end of Millennium Development Goals and the start of the Sustainable Development Goals, the year 2015 is a critical time for redefining priorities and strategies for women’s health….
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Integration of Essential Newborn Care Into Safe Birth Programs in South Sudan
By: Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer In South Sudan, decades of civil war have wreaked havoc on basic infrastructure, including health facilities and roads. Given the lack of transportation…