BOSTON (Aug. 23, 2017) — The last two decades have seen real progress in making childbirth safer for women and infants around the world. However, more effort is still needed. Approximately 830 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every day. And 2.7 million newborns die every year in their first month… Continue reading Ariadne Labs and WHO convene first global meeting on implementation of the Safe Childbirth Checklist
Jocie Fifield, MPH, is the Senior Technical Specialist and MAKLab Lead on the MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator project. In this role, she oversees strategy and implementation for MAKLab, an innovation lab for the USAID MOMENTUM suite of awards. Jocie has been working with MAKLab since 2020, supporting activity planning, research, and execution. She has also worked… Continue reading Jocie Fifield
Boston, MA – There is strong evidence that expanding health insurance increases access to care, improves health in a variety of ways, and reduces mortality, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers who analyzed a decade’s worth of evidence on the effects of insurance coverage on health. The review—the most current analysis… Continue reading Analysis indicates that insurance expansion improves access to care, health, and survival
The BetterBirth team announced the findings of its childbirth quality-of-care research trial to the scientific community gathered at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists World Congress in Cape Town in March. The gathering of more than 2,500 maternal health clinicians and academics from around the world offered a first look into the data of… Continue reading BetterBirth team shares results at RCOG scientific conference