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By Wycliffe Omanya, IntraHealth International Note: This blog originially appeared in IntraHealth's blog VITAL. Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse Lenah Gatwiri. Courtesy IntraHealth International. While some health facilities are abuzz with health workers attending to patients at every corner...

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 Rebecca Bailey, IntraHealth International; Julia Bluestone, Jhpiego; Gabrielle O’Malley, International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH); Carey McCarthy, CDC; Samuel Ngobua, IntraHealth; Frances Petracca, I-TECH; Lois Schaefer, USAID; Tana Wuliji, University Research Co., LLC (URC...

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, there...

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 the American College of Nurse-Midwives' Department of Global Outreach The American College of Nurse-Midwives Department of Global Outreach is on a mission – to “lead global efforts that improve the health and wellbeing of women and infants worldwide through strengthening the profession of...