We are excited to announce the upcoming dialogue, “Too Much Too Soon: Addressing Over-Intervention in Maternity Care.” The event will take place at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (and online!) on Monday, 24 April 2017 from 11:00am – 1:00pm. This dialogue is part of the Maternal Health Task Force’s Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health Series, in partnership with UNFPA and the Wilson Center…read more
For India, Achieving the Next Generation of Maternal Health Goals Requires New Approaches
Posted onLast month, nearly 50 researchers, practitioners and advocates from across India, and a few from beyond its borders, gathered to discuss strategies for improving maternal health at the new Mumbai outpost of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of a two-day workshop organized by the Wilson Center and Maternal Health Task Force…read more
Midwives’ Voices, Midwives’ Realities: Results From the First Global Midwifery Survey
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Posted onWe are excited to announce the upcoming policy dialogue, “Midwives’ Voices, Midwives’ Realities: The Largest Global Survey of Midwives and What It Means for Maternal and Newborn Health.” The event will take place at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (and online!) on Monday, 27 February 2017 from 9:30-11:30am…read more
The Urban Disadvantage: Rethinking Maternal and Newborn Health Priorities
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Urbanization is changing the face of poverty and marginalization, and the maternal and newborn health field needs to change too, said a panel of experts at the Wilson Center on January 24. The so-called “urban advantage”—the idea that one can expect better health outcomes in urban settings—is no longer true. Maternal mortality ratios, neonatal mortality rates and stillbirth rates in slum areas are worse than rural averages in many cases…read more
Closing the Gaps of Maternal Health in Conflict and Crises
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Last week, experts in maternal and reproductive health gathered at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. to discuss the latest data on maternal health in conflict and crises, identify policy and funding gaps and explore how to address maternal health in these hard-to-reach areas. The dialogue, Closing the Gaps of Maternal Health in Conflict and Crises, was part of the Maternal Health Task Force’s Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health Series in partnership with the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) and the Wilson Center. The panelists offered a range of perspectives and recommended key actions to improve maternal health in humanitarian settings…read more
Wilson Center Event: Closing the Gaps of Maternal Health in Conflict and Crises
Posted onWe are excited to announce the upcoming policy dialogue, Closing the Gaps of Maternal Health in Conflict and Crises. The event will take place at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (and online!) on Thursday, December 8, 2016. This dialogue is part of the Maternal Health Task Force’s Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health Series, in partnership with UNFPA and the Wilson Center…read more
Putting The Lancet Maternal Health Series Into Action: Five Next Steps
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Last week, experts in maternal health convened at the Wilson Center to mark the recent launch of The Lancet Maternal Health Series, discuss its implications and brainstorm how to translate findings into improvements for global maternal newborn health. The speakers called for five actions to ensure high quality care for every woman, every newborn, everywhere…read more
Wilson Center Event: What Next? Putting The Lancet Maternal Health Series Into Action
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After Women Deliver, What’s Next for Women and Girls?
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The once-every-three-years Women Deliver conference has become a major coalescing force for various global health and development efforts aimed at women and girls. “We operate at a global level, influencing the agenda” by focusing on the “four Cs”: convening, communicating, capacity-building and catalyzing, said Susan Papp, director of policy and advocacy for Women Deliver. Last month, Papp was joined by experts at the Wilson Center to discuss the takeaways for the health, rights and wellbeing of women and girls from this spring’s conference in Copenhagen, the largest yet…read more