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 »
Video: Richard Horton Discusses Themes of Women Deliver–a Focus on MDG5
Posted in Events, News, Videos, tagged maternal health, MDG5, millennium development goal 5, reproductive health, Richard Horton, The Lancet, video, Women Deliver, youtube on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In this video, Richard Horton, Editor of the Lancet, talks about the key themes of the upcoming Women Deliver conference (June 7-9)–specifically the focus on Millennium Development Goal 5, improving maternal and reproductive health.
Countdown to 2015 Releases Decade Report (2000-2010)
Posted in Announcement, News, tagged child health, child mortality, Countdown to 2015, Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010), download the report, maternal health, maternal mortality, MDG4, MDG5, Millennium Development Goal 4, millennium development goal 5, newborn health, newborn mortality, official launch, progress, Women Deliver, Women Deliver Conference on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The official launch of the Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010) will be at the Women Deliver and Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival conferences next week (the Countdown meeting is being held in conjunction with Women Deliver) –but the report is now available to download on the Countdown to 2015 website. [...]
Global Progress on Maternal Health: Dr. Fred Sai Asks, “Where is Africa”?
Posted in Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Lesotho, Nigeria, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, tagged 1980, 1990, Africa, child health, conflict, corruption, Cote d'Ivoire, Dr. Fred Sai, education, food shortages, Ghana, Ghanaian government, governance, heath systems, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Lancet, Lesotho, Malawi, maternal and child health, maternal death, maternal health, maternal mortality, new estimates, newborn health, Nigeria, ONE, poverty, reproductive health, Rwanda, Women Deliver, Women Deliver 2010, Women Deliver Conference, Zimbabwe on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dr. Fred Sai is co-host of Women Deliver 2010, former reproductive health and HIV/AIDS advisor to the Ghanaian government, and has spent 40 years working to improve the health of women and children in Ghana and throughout Africa. In his June 2nd blog post, A New Role For Africans in Maternal Health, on the ONE [...]
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 [...]
Tonight at 8pm (ET): Pick Up the Phone for Maternal Health (and talk with Christy Turlington!)
Posted in Announcement, News, tagged Africa, Christy Turlington, Christy Turlington Burns, David Lane, global health, interactive conference call, maternal health, maternal mortality, No Woman No Cry, ONE Campaign, ONE2ONE, Tribeca Film Festival, Women Deliver on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight at 8pm (ET) the ONE campaign will hold an interactive conference call on maternal health with the President of ONE, David Lane, and supermodel/maternal health activist, Christy Turlington Burns, who recently screened her new film on maternal health, No Woman, No Cry, at the Tribeca Film Festival. Christy will also participate in a panel [...]
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.” [...]
Volunteer at Women Deliver!
Posted in Announcement, Events, Opportunities in Maternal Health, Uncategorized, tagged maternal health, maternal mortality, MDG, MDG4, MDG5, Millennium Development Goals, volunteer opportunities, volunteer opportunity, Washington DC, Women Deliver, Women Deliver Conference on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Women Deliver Volunteer at the conference and receive free registration for the conference, including three days of panel presentations and breakout sessions; access to Tuesday’s Technology Symposium and to the Exhibition Hall; and a Women Deliver volunteer t-shirt. The conference will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC from June 7th to the [...]
Women Deliver Scholarship Deadline Approaching!
Posted in the Millennium Development Goals and the Media, Uncategorized, tagged Delivering Solutions for Girls and Women, family planning, gender, health systems strengthening, human rights, investing in women, maternal health, maternal health conference, maternal mortality, MDG5, Millennium Development Goals, reproductive health, scholarship, violence against women, Washington DC, Women Deliver, Women Deliver Conference, women in conflict situations on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Women Deliver is holding a conference, Delivering Solutions for Girls and Women The conference will be held in Washington DC from June 7-9 and will have two main messages: 1.) The MDGs will not be achieved without investing in women. 2.) There is just enough time, if the world commits funding now, to achieve MDG5 — additional US$10 [...]
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