This post is the first in a series on maternal health in the Seraikela block of Jharkhand, India. In 2009, Sarah Blake and I worked together at the Maternal Health Task Force, a Gates Foundation funded maternal health initiative based at EngenderHealth in New York City. Since then, Sarah went on to work as a consultant with several non-profit organizations, [...]
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Janani Suraksha Yojana and the Bumpy Road to Maternal Health in Rural India
Posted in Browse by Country, India, tagged American India Foundation, cash incentive, community health workers, conditional cash transfer, EngenderHealth, Gates Foundation, health policy, home delivery, human rights, India, institutional delivery, Jamshedpur, Janani Suraksha Yojana, Jharkhand, JSY, Kate Mitchell, Lancet, maternal and newborn health, maternal death, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal mortality, National Rural Health Mission, neonatal mortality, newborn health, newborn mortality, perinatal mortality, Sarah Blake, Seraikela Block, transportation, UNFPA, Women Deliver on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Global Maternal Health Conference to be Live Streamed!
Posted in Events, India, News, Opportunities in Maternal Health, Videos, tagged advocacy, affordable technologies, blogging, community interventions, conference, Delhi, EmOC, evidence, facility interventions, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, human resources, India, Indian models, informatics, lessons learned, live stream, maternal health, maternal health accountability, Maternal Health Digital, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, maternal survival, MDG5, neglected issues, newborn health, newborn survival, opportunities in maternal health, postpartum hemorrhage, programs, Public Health Foundation of India, public-private partnerships, task-shifting, technology, video, Young Champions of Maternal Health on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Final preparations are underway for the Global Maternal Health Conference in Delhi! With only a couple of weeks until the conference, things have been very busy at the Maternal Health Task Force! Take a look below for the recently finalized live stream schedule. We will be streaming (open-access, no registration necessary) all plenary sessions as [...]
Global Maternal Health Conference 2010: Join the Global Team of Guest Bloggers!
Posted in Announcement, Events, India, Opportunities in Maternal Health, tagged development, global health, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, global team of guest bloggers, guest blog, guest bloggers, India, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, MHTF Blog, New Delhi, opportunities in maternal health on July 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In my role at the Maternal Health Task Force, I am helping to coordinate a global team of guest bloggers who will write about the Global Maternal Health Conference next month–and contribute to the online dialogue around the sessions occurring at the conference. The conference will be held in New Delhi, India–but several sessions will [...]
Join the Conversation: The Impact of Maternal Mortality and Morbidity on Economic Development
Posted in Events, Opportunities in Maternal Health, South Africa, Videos, tagged Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health, donor investment, Dr. Nomonde Xundu, economic development, education, foreign policy, GDP, gender equality, health policy, investing in women and girls, live webcast, Mary Ellen Stanton, maternal death, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, Mayra Buvinic, MHTF, newborn death, policy implications, productivity, small businesses, smart economics, South Africa, UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, unpaid work, USAID, videos, webcast, Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Health Initiative, Woodrow WIlson International Center for Scholars, World Bank on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) invite you to attend (or watch online) the sixth event of the series, Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health: The Impact of Maternal Mortality and Morbidity on Economic Development. The event will take place on July [...]
The Maternal Health Task Force is Looking for a Knowledge Management Assistant
Posted in India, News, Opportunities in Maternal Health, Public Health and Technology, tagged AIF, American India Foundation, Clinton Fellow, Clinton Fellowship, EngenderHealth, gender studies, global maternal health, job opening, job opportunity, KMS, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Management Assistant, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, Maternal Mortality Daily, MHTF, newborn health, public health, public health communications on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was recently selected as a Clinton Fellow in maternal health with the American India Foundation which means I will be moving to India in September to work on the ground on a maternal and neonatal health project! This also means that my position with the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth will be open [...]
Highlights From Day One (6/7) of Women Deliver 2010
Posted in Events, News, tagged $1.5 billion, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, crowd-sourcing, crowdsourcing, Gates Foundation, Global Voices for Maternal Health, Maternal Health Task Force, Melinda Gates, MHTF, MHTF Blog, The Lancet, University of Oxford, Women Deliver 2010 on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over 3,500 maternal health providers, researchers, policymakers, and advocates from all over the world have gathered in Washington D.C. for Women Deliver 2010, a global conference focused on maternal and newborn health. Earlier today, I posted a short blog post on the MHTF Blog with highlights from day one of the conference. The MHTF Blog [...]
Maternal Health Mapping: Join the Community, Put Your Organization on the Map!
Posted in News, Opportunities in Maternal Health, Public Health and Technology, tagged clinics, crowd-sourcing, crowdsourcing, frontline health workers, gaps, geographic maps, global map, hospitals, Kate Mitchell, mapping form, mapping systems, maps, maternal health, maternal health concentration, maternal health knowledge hubs, maternal health organizations, maternal health professionals, maternal health students, Maternal Health Task Force, Maternova, medical school, MHTF, MHTF Blog, MPH programs, School of Public Health, Women Deliver on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Maternal Health Task Force currently has three interactive (and fast growing!) maternal health maps; maternal health knowledge hubs, MPH programs that offer a concentration/focus on maternal health, and maternal health organizations. As part of my role at the MHTF, I am working to spread the word about these maps and further populate them so [...]
Crowd-Sourcing for Maternal Health
Posted in News, Opportunities in Maternal Health, Public Health and Technology, tagged crowd-sourcing, crowd-sourcing for maternal health, EngenderHealth, evidence-based care, Global Voices, Global Voices for Maternal Health, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, MHTF, online discussion forum, survey, University of Oxford, Women Deliver, Women Deliver Conference on May 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The University of Oxford, with support from the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth, will be launching a maternal health crowd-sourcing project on June 7th, 2010. The project, Global Voices for Maternal Health, will launch at the Women Deliver conference. The idea is to give health care providers a “direct global voice in identifying and [...]
Policy Discussion on Transportation and Referral for Maternal Health: Join the Dialogue in D.C. or Online!
Posted in Announcement, Bolivia, Ghana, India, News, tagged "Emergency 108" call system, Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health, ambulances, archived webcast, Bolivia, CARE, CARE-Bolivia, coordination, donor community, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), funding, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, global health priorities, GVK Emergency Management Institute, health systems, Improving Transportation and Referral for Maternal Health, India, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, knowledge sharing, live webcast, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal mortality, MHTF, MHTF Blog, obstetric nets manager, private sector, public sector, referral systems, research, road infrastructure, skilled birth attendant, skilled birth attendants, Subodh Satyawadi, UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, Victor Conde Altamirano, Wilson Center, Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Health Initiative on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) invite you to attend (or watch online) the fifth event of the series on Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health: Improving Transportation and Referral for Maternal Health. The event will be held on May 20th from [...]
Several Leaders in the Maternal Health Field React to the Recent Maternal Mortality Estimates
Posted in News, tagged AMDD, Ana Langer, Ann M. Starrs, Ashoka, Averting Maternal Death and Disability, Centre for Health Policy and Innovation, Claire Bangser, Dr. Ana Langer, Dr. Harshad Sanghvi, Dr. Marco Gomez, EngenderHealth, estimates, Family Care International, film, funding, global health, Governess Films, Immpact, Jeremy Shiffman, jhpiego, Lancet, Lisa Russell, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal mortality, Maternova, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, MDGfive.com, Meg Wirth, MHTF, policy, public health, public health planning, recommendations, research, The Lancet, the MHTF Blog on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In the wake of the recent maternal mortality estimates published in the Lancet, much of my time at my day job with the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) has been spent requesting and compiling reactions to the new estimates from a variety of leaders in the maternal health field. The MHTF Blog We tracked down [...]
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