After Women Deliver, What’s Next for Women and Girls?

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By: Aimee Jakeman, Intern, the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative; edited by Schuyler Null, Editor in Chief of New Security Beat

The once-every-three-years Women Deliver conference has become a major coalescing force for various global health and development efforts aimed at women and girls. “We operate at a global level, influencing the agenda” by focusing on the “four Cs”: convening, communicating, capacity-building and catalyzing, said Susan Papp, director of policy and advocacy for Women Deliver. Last month, Papp was joined by experts at the Wilson Center to discuss the takeaways for the health, rights and wellbeing of women and girls from this spring’s conference in Copenhagen, the largest yet…read more

What Can Maternal Health Learn From the Aviation Industry?

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By: Katherine Semrau, Director of the BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Associate Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Global Health Equity

The aviation checklist is designed for critical moments in flying, including before takeoff and before landing. Similarly, the World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Childbirth Checklist addresses four critical moments during childbirth: at admission, just before pushing, within one hour of delivery and at facility discharge. The behaviors on the WHO checklist address the biggest causes of mortality in women and newborns and are thus essential practices arising from evidence-based WHO guidelines…read more