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The Women Deliver Conference offers a unique opportunity for researchers, advocates, and maternal health professionals to learn from each other as we pave the way for meeting the SDGs. Come to the following MHTF-supported events to join in our…

“It’s not about counting how many times a mother interacts with antenatal services or comes to the facility. But it’s what happens in these encounters that matters," said Dr. Mariam Claeson, the director of maternal newborn and child health at the Bill…

On April 13, in partnership with UNFPA and the Wilson Center, the Maternal Health Task Force co-hosted a policy dialogue to review priorities, evaluate progress, and reignite efforts in the maternal newborn health field. The discussion served as a…

“Zika has made a long-standing public health crisis impossible to ignore,” said Chloë Cooney, director of global advocacy at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in last Friday's podcast from the Wilson Center's Maternal Health Initiative. Read…

The Maternal Health Task Force is excited to host a technical consultation with USAID’s Translating Research into Action (TRAction) Project together with USAID and the World Bank. On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, researchers, programmers,…

Respectful maternity care is sometimes framed as a ‘soft issue’ without the same urgency as emergency obstetric services, but the consequences of mistreatment can be serious and far-reaching. As we celebrate International Day for Maternal Health and…

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…

By: Jacquelyn Caglia, Deputy Director of Administration & Operations, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The 2016 International Conference on Family Planning, convened in Nusa Dua, Indonesia in late January,…

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…

The MHTF is proud to present a new infographic, highlighting the United States’ shortcoming in achieving Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5), to reduce maternal mortality by 75%. In fact, not only did the U.S. not come close to reaching MDG5, but…