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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Can Social Accountability Help Ensure Rights and Better Participation in Maternal Health Services?
By: Katrina Braxton, Program Assistant, The Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative Over the last two decades, social accountability has emerged as a strategy to make health services more responsive to…
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To Reduce Death and Ensure Health, The Lancet Launches Midwifery Series
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Today, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, The Lancet launched its…
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Ultrasonography in Low-Resource Settings: Approaches to Implementation
By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative; Jessica Schiffman, Senior Consultant, Daktari Diagnostics; Yogeeta Manglani, Research Assistant, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health…
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Ultrasonography in Low-Resource Settings: Utility and Demand
By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative; Jessica Schiffman, Senior Consultant, Daktari Diagnostics; Yogeeta Manglani, Research Assistant, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health…
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What the WHO and IHME Research Tells Us About Unsafe Abortion
By: Manuelle Hurwitz, Senior Adviser, Abortion, International Planned Parenthood Federation; Rebecca Wilkins, Programme Officer, Abortion, International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPF welcomes the research released by IHME and the WHO providing…
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Delivering Quality Antenatal Care in Low Resource Settings: Examining Innovative Models and Planning For Scale Up
June 30, 2014 3:00 pm – 5:00pm 5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center Washington, DC The World Health Organization recommends that all pregnant women attend a minimum of four antenatal care…
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Key Interventions on Pregnant Mothers Improve the Survival of Preterm Babies
By: Dr. Jeffrey Smith, Maternal Health Team Leader, MCSP; Lindsay Grenier, Maternal Health Technical Advisor, MCSP ; Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer Obstetrician Dr. Mark Hathaway—a trainer for USAID’s…
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Promoting Respectful Maternity Care at Ethiopian Health Facilities
By: Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer The MHTF has relaunched our Respectful Maternity Care blog series in response to the inaugural International Day for Maternal Health and Rights, which…
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Innovative Ways to Train Health Workers: Video Series on Newborn and Childbirth Care
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The causes of maternal and neonatal mortality are largely preventable. Apart from life-saving commodities,…
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Advocacy for Misoprostol, Advocacy for Saving Lives
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Hundreds of thousands of women die every year giving birth. The leading causes of…