Scaling Up Innovations in Maternal and Newborn Health: 5 Lessons Learned

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By: Neil Spicer, Qualitative Lead on scale-up at the IDEAS project, Lecturer in Global Health Policy in the Department of Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

A team based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has studied the critical steps that were taken to help scale up the Saving Newborn Lives neonatal sepsis management innovation, as part of Ethiopia’s flagship Community Based Newborn Care programme with the overall aim of improving maternal and newborn health outcomes. What lessons can the analysis hold for other countries?…read more

Happening Now: The Second Safe Mothers and Newborns Leadership Workshop

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By: Sarah Hodin, MPH, CD(DONA), LCCE, National Senior Manager of Maternal Newborn Health Programs, Steward Health Care

This week the Maternal Health Task Force, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has teamed up with The Aga Khan University and The Barcelona Institute for Global Health to host the second annual Safe Mothers and Newborns Leadership Workshop. The goal of the workshop is to increase the capacity of key players in the field of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health from high burden countries to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by upgrading their technical knowledge and leadership skills…read more