POWERING A MOVEMENT FOR MATERNAL NEWBORN HEALTH

This month, our research summaries cover pregnant women and malaria surveillance in the DRC, an AI-assisted diagnostic for newborns, an evaluation of the Safer Births Bundle of Care program in Tanzania, and more.

Women continue to get pregnant and give birth in times of crisis, times when access to high-quality maternal and newborn health services is especially critical. In these contexts, maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) remains an important tool to uncover root causes of deaths and offer insights to inform life-saving interventions.

Amid rapid shifts in the global landscape, how can we reinvigorate global health? This Q&A with Dr. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin, former Minister of Health for Ethiopia and co-author of a recent report from the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, explores the paper’s implications for the future of global health.