Search

Add your organization to our database Does your organization work on maternal health? Join our database. [contact-form to=’mhtf@hsph.harvard.edu’ subject=’Organization search: new entry’][contact-field…

Today, May 5, is the International Day of the Midwife. This is an opportunity for the global community to come together to recognize the incredible impact midwives have on maternal and newborn health and decreasing mortality. Want to know more about what…

On 1 December 2014, the Wilson Center Maternal Health Initiative convened this dialogue, in partnership with the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). As the international development community…

By: Linnea Bennett, Intern, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center As the international development community looks back on the Millennium Development Goals and ponders what remains to be done under the proposed Sustainable…

By: Katharine McCarthy, Research Coordinator, Population Council; Saumya Ramarao, Senior Associate, Population Council This post is part of the blog series “Increasing access to maternal and reproductive health supplies: Leveraging lessons learned…

On March 4th 2015, the annual GLOW conference was held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in London, jointly hosted by the MARCH Centre of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Institute for Women’s…

With the end date of the Millennium Development Goals looming, prioritizing maternal health and measuring it well will be critical to progress for women and newborns in the post-2015 era. The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) of the United…

As momentum builds towards the unveiling of the post-2015 agenda, the global health community has its eye on universal health coverage (UHC) as a priority for operationalizing the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The issue at hand is not whether UHC…

2008 to 2011   From 2008 to 2011, the MHTF was based at EngenderHealth. During this period, the MHTF provided small grants to projects based on the following criteria: Identify and fill knowledge gapsA wide range of questions…

The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) continues and builds on the tradition of the MHTF in ensuring that front-line maternal health workers, policymakers, researchers, and advocates across…