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As we celebrate International Day of the Midwife on May 5th, now is an especially important time to acknowledge midwives for their hard work in ensuring the health of women and newborns before, during, and after childbirth. Read our resource roundup to…

Luis Tam, global technical lead for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) at Management Sciences for Health (MSH), discusses five ways to create lasting, scalable MNCH programs...read more

We are excited to announce the upcoming dialogue, After Mexico City and Before Copenhagen: Keeping Our Promise to Mothers and Newborns, on Wednesday, April 13 in Washington, DC. After exploring the newly-adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at…

We are excited to announce the upcoming dialogue, How Zika Is Shaping the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Agenda, on Tuesday, April 12 in Washington, DC. The Zika outbreak presents an opportunity to set the conversation on access, quality, and…

As a space where individuals gather and spend significant amounts of time, workplaces can serve as an efficient, underutilized platform and safe environment for impacting employees' health. Recent initiatives aim to improve access to family planning,…

This summer, the Maternal Health Task Force will support eight students at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health as they apply their skills and knowledge to internships in maternal health. Project topics include maternal mental health, health…

By Alicia Ely Yamin, Director of Policy, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights The speed with which the Zika virus appears to be spreading is only surpassed by the speed at which structural political failures in Latin America have been transformed…

By Koki Agarwal, Director, Maternal and Child Survival Program; Ana Langer, Director, Maternal Health Task Force; and Joy Riggs-Perla, Director, Saving Newborn Lives at Save the Children While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) underlined the…

By: Katie Millar, Jacquelyn Caglia and Ana Langer, MHTF The deadline for submissions has been extended to May 1st! Progress for All As a maternal health community, we have much to celebrate as we reflect on progress made with global attention…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: Lesotho’s predominantly rural population faces significant health impacts due to challenges to equitable distribution of the health workforce. Nurses and midwives…