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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
Policy Discussion on Family Planning in Fragile States THIS THURSDAY!
Posted in Announcement, Events, News, tagged Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health, CEDPA, Centre for Development and Population Activities, Columbia University, conflict settings, disaster settings, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), family planning, fragile states, Grace Kodindo, infant mortality, Karima Tunau, maternal death, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal mortality, MHTF, Nabila Zar Malick, newborn death, newborn health, peacebuilding efforts, Population and Family Health, Rahnuma Family Planning Association of Pakistan, reproductive health, reproductive health in conflict settings, Sandra Krause, UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, Usmanu Danpodiyo Hospital, Washington DC, webcast, Women's Refugee Commission, Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Health Initiative on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a reminder! This event will happen this Thursday, April 29th! The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative and Environmental Change and Security Program, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have announced the fourth event of the series on Advancing Policy [...]
Every Minute of Every Day, a Woman Dies Giving Life: Do messages like this work?
Posted in News, tagged advocacy, catch phrases, communications, market research, marketing, maternal health, maternal health messaging, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, MHTF, Safe Motherhood Initiative, tag lines, Tim Thomas, Timothy Thomas on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tim Thomas, Senior Technical Advisor to the Maternal Health Task Force, reflects on over 20 years of maternal health messaging—and asks difficult questions about the efficacy of the messages that maternal health professionals use every day to call attention to their issue. The MHTF Blog “Since the Safe Motherhood Initiative began in 1987, lots of [...]
World Health Day: A Look at Maternal Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases
Posted in News, tagged maternal mortality, maternal health, integration of health services, Millennium Development Goals, access, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal morbidity, MDG5, Women Deliver, pregnancy complications, integration, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, millennium development goal 5, World Health Organization, access to health care, MHTF, Kate Mitchell, World Health Day, Urbanization and Health, neglected tropical diseases, urban slum populations, global conferences, Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Global Health Initiative, Dr. Peter J. Hotez, deworming, hookworm, anemia, perinatal morbidity, school attendance, bednets, rural populations on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of World Health Day, I wrote a post for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases blog, End the Neglect. The post looks at the relationship between these two historically neglected global health issues–and calls for more integration. End the Neglect “The theme of this year’s World Health Day is “Urbanization and Health.” [...]
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