UN/multilateral policy

By Sarah B. Alexander Director of External Relations, Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS), an initiative of Seattle Children’s When Megan suddenly goes into labor at just 25 weeks gestation, she rushes to the hospital and gives birth to Sophia 15 weeks early. Sophia is...

By Chelsea Bailey, Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation This fall, Francesca Celletti, MD, joined the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) as the new Director of Health Systems Strengthening. We sat down with Dr. Celletti to talk about the hallmarks of a robust health system, how...

By Judith Winkler, IntraHealth International Note: This blog was originally published in IntraHealth’s blog Vital . From A to Z, countries lined up to announce their commitments to health workers at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Recife, Brazil, last week. Delegate after...

Jonathan Jay, Management Sciences for Health Note: This piece was originally posted on Devex.com . Frontline Health Workers Coalition Chair Mary Beth Powers moderates a session on advocating for policy change at the Third Global Forum for Human Resources for Health in Recife, Brazil. Worldwide...

By Mary Beth Powers, Frontline Health Workers Coalition and Save the Children Groundhog Day is the day in February where in the United States, people wait for a groundhog to emerge from his underground winter home to see if he sees his shadow. If he does, it means we will have 6 more weeks of winter...

By Fabio Castaño and Jonathan Jay, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Photo by Warren Zelman. Courtesy MSH. In a week and a half, as a team of our colleagues arrive in Ethiopia for this year’s International Conference on Family Planning, others will already be in Brazil for the Third Global Forum...

By Victoria Melhado , Women Deliver 100 Young Leader “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead Today, I say proudly that nurses are changing the world. Women Deliver 100 Young Leader Victoria...

By Ann LoLordo, Jhpiego Lanyi, South Sudan – Not much can keep Mary Rose Dalaka from ensuring pregnant women in this verdant farming community receive the lifesaving care they need to survive childbirth. When the motorbike she was riding on got stuck in knee-high mud, this nurse-midwife hopped off...

By Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition From the halls of the United Nations, to the set of Good Morning America, to the cheers from 75,000 gathered for a concert in Central Park – a common refrain reverberated in New York City last week: “health workers count.” Now, the global health...

By Richard Seifman, Consultant, IntraHealth International Courtesy IntraHealth International NOTE: This piece was originally posted on the IntraHealth Global Health Blog . Every so often, a prevailing system or approach changes dramatically. Small changes and tweaks to the status quo give way to a...