Our six weeks in the Dominican Republic gave us a chance to put everything we learned during our first year as Maternal and Child Health students into some intense practice. The gist of our field experience was to create, administer, and analyze data from a community health survey in an agrarian region of the Dominican […]
Tag: Global health
Maternal deaths on the decline?
New research published in the Lancet (April 2010) shows a sharp decrease in maternal deaths for the first time in decades: from 525,300 maternal deaths in 1980, to 342,900 in 2008. As the New York Times reported last week, the news came as a surprise to many maternal health advocates—who assumed data would be similar […]
Women’s Health in Nepal
Women’s Health in Nepal: An interview with Dr. Sangeeta Mishra by Public Radio International.
The full audio program is available at http://www.pri.org/health/global-health/womens-health-nepal1422.html.