The Maternal Health Task Force at Harvard's Center of Excellence in MCH serves as a global platform for maternal health evidence and resources.
The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) — a project of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — works to create a strong, well-informed and integrated community of individuals around the globe focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide. To that end we:
• Ensure that maternal health practitioners, policy makers, researchers and advocates have access to the most current and reliable evidence, information and resources on maternal health through our open-access online knowledge management system
• Identify and create opportunities for the maternal health community, led by voices from the global South, to develop consensus on critical maternal health issues, priorities and actions in order to produce evidence-based policy, programs, education and clinical guidelines
• Generate new evidence for program development and policy advocacy through targeted research addressing emerging or neglected areas within maternal health
• Train and mentor the next generation of maternal health leaders
The MHTF seeks to generate and disseminate high quality scientific research; surface key issues for critical discussion, consensus building and policy advocacy; support emerging professionals in maternal newborn health; and connect researchers, policy makers, providers and other stakeholders in the global maternal newborn health field.
