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Earlier this week, we posted on climate change and family planning on Global Mama. In addition to that, Mala Rao from the Indian Institute for Public Health gave a presentation at the Global Maternal Health Conference on “Climate change and its impact on women’s health in the developing world.” Whenever you’re looking for information … Continue reading “Resources on GMHC2010 Site”
Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the final event of the 2009-2010 series Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health. Maternal Undernutrition: Evidence, Links, and Solutions featuring Amy Webb Girard, Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Public Health Masuma … Continue reading “Maternal Undernutrition: Evidence, Links, and Solutions”
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, The Lancet, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the University of Queensland School of Population Health invite submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations at the Global Health Metrics & Evaluation: Controversies, Innovation, Accountability conference, to be held … Continue reading “Call for Abstracts: Global Health Metrics and Evaluation”
Day two of the Partner’s Forum on Women’s and Children’s Health in Delhi turned out to be much more substantive than day one. The opening plenary obliquely titled Accelerating Action for Women’s and Children’s Health was chaired by the thought-provoking editor of The Lancet, Richard Horton, who suggested that in spite of the PMCH’s successes … Continue reading “Partners’ Forum on Women’s & Children’s Health – Day 2”
On the sidelines of the political posturing and rhetoric at the Partners’ Forum on Women’s & Children’s Health sponsored by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health underway at the prestigious Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi this weekend, there have been some illuminating discussions. The day before the event, there was a robust agenda of … Continue reading “Partners’ Forum on Women’s & Children’s Health – Day 1”
Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the ninth event of the series on Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health. Expanding Access to Essential Maternal Health Commodities November 30, 2010 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. 5th Floor Conference Room Woodrow … Continue reading “Expanding Access to Essential Maternal Health Commodities”
This post was originally published on the Healthy Newborn Network blog. Reprinted here with permission. With five years remaining until the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, experts, policy makers, donors and academics from around the globe gathered during the Global Maternal Health Conference from August 30-September 1 in Delhi to share their insight, experiences, … Continue reading “Linking in the newborn at the Global Maternal Health Conference”
*Updated with new speaker information* Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the eighth event of the series on Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health: New Applications for Existing Technologies to Improve Maternal Health. This program features David Aylward, Executive … Continue reading “October 27th: New Applications for Existing Technologies to Improve Maternal Health”
The MHTF is soliciting reactions from the maternal health community to the newly released UN MMR data. Our hope is that, together, these comments will serve as a springboard for discussion and provide momentum towards MDG5. Trends in Maternal Mortality, 1990 to 2008, just released by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, … Continue reading “EngenderHealth’s Perspective on New UN Maternal Mortality Estimates”
The MHTF is soliciting reactions from the maternal health community to the newly released UN MMR data. Our hope is that, together, these comments will serve as a springboard for discussion and provide momentum towards MDG5. Trends in Maternal Mortality, 1990 to 2008, just released by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, … Continue reading “EngenderHealth’s Perspective on New UN Maternal Mortality Estimates”
