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The following originally appeared on the New Security Beat. It is reposted here with permission. In the last five years, maternal health has begun to take a front seat within the larger global health agenda, but when it comes to a neutral space for…

The first phase of the Maternal Health Task Force ends officially October 31st at its birthplace, EngenderHealth, and the second phase begins November 1st 2011 at its new home, the Harvard School of Public Health. (A six-month extension of the first…

By: Emily Puckart, Program Associate, MHTF After the meeting in Nairobi in July on maternal health challenges in Kenya, I was looking forward to hearing more productive, and sometimes provocative, discussions during the most recent Nairobi policy…

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, Environmental Change & Security Program, and Africa Program, in coordination with the Maternal Health Task Force, UNFPA, and African Population & Health Research Center invite you to a…

By: Janna Oberdorf, Director of Communications and Outreach, Women Deliver I was incredibly lucky and honored to participate in the Maternal Health Task Force Buzz Meeting today with a room full of professional researchers, advocates, and maternal health…

By: Emily Puckart, Program Associate, MHTF The New York Times has recently published a series on “Small Fixes: Low-cost innovations that can save thousands of lives.” The series highlights small, low cost solutions to public health problems…

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative in coordination with the Maternal Health Task Force and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) invite you to a discussion of: Silent Suffering: Maternal Morbidities in Developing Countries …

At the MHTF, we support a lot of innovative projects, from mobile clinics in Nairobi to mobile applications. However, the most important aspect of innovation and new technologies are not how cool they sound or how easily they can be sold to investors or…

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative in coordination with the Maternal Health Task Force and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) invite you to a discussion of:   Silent Suffering: Maternal Morbidities in Developing…

The financing scheme in Sierra Leone that provides free health care to pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under five is one that we’ve covered before on the blog and the MH Buzz. Many of the discussions about the program have indicated…