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By: Mariam Claeson, France Donnay and Melanie Walker, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This post is cross-posted from Impatient Optimists. Although it was intended to create space for the maternal health community to get together to discuss…

By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International This post is cross-posted from the FCI Blog and the PMNCH website. Last week’s Global Maternal Health Conference (GMHC), held in Arusha, Tanzania, was both inspiring and sobering.…

By: Dr. Nosa Orobaton, Chief of Party, Nigeria Targeted States High Impact Project (TSHIP), JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. There is a sense of timelessness in resplendent Arusha, Tanzania, the venue of the second Global Maternal Health…

By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine This blog post is cross-posted from Speaking of Medicine. It wasn’t easy to choose sessions today on the last day of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013, the variety and caliber of…

By: Lauren Herzer, Wilson Center This blog post is cross-posted from the New Security Beat. Does access to quality water and sanitation have an effect on maternal health outcomes? That was a surprising topic of discussion on day one of the…

The Global Maternal Health Conference is right around the corner! In an effort to engage a broad audience, the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the three plenaries will be live-streamed and archived. In addition, all conference sessions…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative PLOS ONE recently published an article, Piecing Together the Maternal Death Puzzle through Narratives: The Three Delays Model Revisited, that explores…

Our colleagues at Women Deliver and The Lancet have recently issued a call for papers for an upcoming special issue of The Lancet that will coincide with the Women Deliver conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in May 2013. From…

By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine We are delighted to announce the theme for year 2 of our Maternal Health Collection, a partnership between PLOS and the Maternal Health Task Force at Harvard School of Public Health. We invite…

Our colleagues at K4Health recently published a technical brief, The Intersection of Knowledge Management and Health Systems Strengthening: Implications from the Malawi Knowledge for Health Demonstration Project, that explores the integration of…