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By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Image credit: Jack Zalium, Flickr The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and PLOS Medicine are committed to creating a platform for sharing critical…

By: Alison Chatfield, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Every year, 15 million babies are born too soon – that’s 1 in every 10 births.  Preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn deaths globally, affecting…

By: Clare Watt, Harvard School of Public Health; Nora Miller, Research Assistant, Respectful Maternity Care program, Women and Health Initiative Measuring advocacy for policy change: The case for respectful maternity care, continued today, charging ahead…

By: Tiffany Clark and Emily Forsyth Queen, USAID Traction Project Today marked the first day of Measuring advocacy for policy change: The case for respectful maternity care, a meeting convened in Cambridge, MA by the MHTF and the USAID Traction Project.…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Each year, the Maternal Health Task Force and PLOS Medicine work together to organize an open access collection of research and commentary on maternal health.…

By: Allison Ettenger, Program Manager, Jacaranda Health Cross-posted from the Jacaranda Health blog Joyce*, a healthy mother, glows as she admires her new baby. Her husband  collects her belongings as she prepares to leave Jacaranda Maternity,…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, October 11 marks the second annual International Day of the Girl. This year, the theme for the day is the “Innovating for Girls’ Education,” and the culmination of 11 days of action to support girls. Organizations…

By: Laurie Mazur, Consultant on Population and the Environment for the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program Cross-posted from New Security Beat, the blog of the Wilson Center.  As world leaders gathered at the UN for…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In the past week, three potentially high-impact innovations have made the news. Each holds promise for easing some of the key barriers that women face in reaching high quality maternal health care in a timely way, and…

The MHTF is excited to announce the launch of the first issue of our newsletter, the MHTF Quarterly.  Each issue of the Quarterly will highlight critical issue in maternal health, compiling resources, including new and important research, multimedia…