Maternal Health Task Force
2024
The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) is a project of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. MHTF focuses on creating a strong community of professionals aiming to end preventable maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide. MHTF ensures health practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and advocates have reliable maternal health information and evidence; identifies and creates opportunities for the maternal health community; generates new evidence for program and policy development; and trains and mentors the next generation of maternal health leaders.
The Maternal Health Task Force focuses on a wide variety of maternal health topics, including: antenatal and postnatal care, contraception and family planning, disease and maternal health, innovations in maternal health, maternal health care systems, the perinatal period, social determinants of maternal health, and sustainable development goals for maternal mortality.
MHTF provides reports, toolkits, policy briefs, and other documents on maternal health topics. Included in these documents are World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations and handbooks for providers. Additional tools offered by the task force are online courses and an Obstetric Emergency Drills Training Kit. The online courses are often created by other maternal and global health institutions and cover a vast array of maternal health concerns – from mother-to-child transmission of HIV to managing postpartum hemorrhage. The Obstetric Emergency Drills Training Kit was jointly developed by Argentina’s Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy and the Maternal Health Task Force and focuses on postpartum hemorrhage and eclampsia. The site also includes a section on frequently asked questions and contains a news portal.
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Maternal Health Task Force. https://www.mhtf.org.