Past News Items
- Music video for maternal survival Apr 2011
Featuring popular local artists, a music video highlighting maternal mortality in Burkina Faso has been released. Sponsored by Amnesty International and Save the Children, this forms part of a wider project involving MARCH's Veronique Filippi. Video | Report (pdf 2.1Mb) - Population Council Bixby Fellowship Program 2011 Jan 2011
Applications to this programme closed on Jan 15 2011. It was open to recently trained social scientists and biomedical researchers from developing countries, working in the health
and population fields. More information - £10m for evidence-based decision-making Dec 2010
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded LSHTM £10m to run the Informed Decisions for Actions (IDEAS) project. Working with innovative
maternal and newborn implementation projects in North-Eastern Nigeria, Uttar Pradesh in India, and Ethiopia, IDEAS aims to provide a better evidence base to guide future maternal and newborn health programmes. Ideas website
- Putting the Global Strategy into Action Nov 2010
Following the launch of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, launched by the UN in September 2010,
world leaders have issued a report outlining progress in implementing the strategy around the world. Read the report (pdf) - Global strategy launched Sep 2010
A global research team, including several members of the March Centre, contributed to the Glboal Strategy for Women's and Children's
Health, launched at the UN in New York on 22nd September. Through this strategy, more than 40 billion US dollars are pledged by governments,
the private sector, foundations and international organizations, to work with civil society and research organisations to save the lives of 16
million women and children. LSHTM mentioned (pdf, p.17); Strategy homepage - MSc dissertation success Sep 2010
Katy Keenan, currently a PhD student at LSHTM, has won the Annual Prize of the British Society for Population Studies for best MSc thesis on a
population-related topic in the previous year. Katy's dissertation, entitled 'High sex ratio at birth & use of sex-selective abortion in the
Caucasus region', used several cross-sectional fertility surveys to examine the evidence for sex-selective abortion in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. Congratulations!
- HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY MARCH! Sep 2010
The MARCH Centre is one year old in September 2010. During its infancy, members
have shared details of numerous seminars, conferences and funding opportunities,
and have published dozens of papers including vitamain
A supplementation in pregnancy, child survival and malaria control
and numerous articles from the Towards 4+5 research consortium. Meetings and a journal
club have helped connect students with established researchers.
Following an enthusiastic review meeting in June, and with a £5000
grant from the school, MARCH's second year will see the centre expand its
activities into workshops, a seminar series and more. To join MARCH and
make sure you don't miss anything, contact
us. To view photos from the launch, click here.
- New York Times feature on improving birthing practices in Peru
- WHO Europe: Protecting children's health in a changing environment
Report of the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health. PDF(1.7Mb)| page
- Towards 4+5 database of interventions to improve maternal and newborn survival Summer 2010
Towards 4+5 has created a searchable database of more than 90
interventions for maternal and newborn health. This practical
tool, designed for policy-makers, programme planners and researchers
is unique because it shows how the interventions can be integrated
according to who they are for, how they can be delivered, and the
maternal and neonatal outcome addressed. Click
here to access the database.
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Past Events
- Joint seminar, MARCH and the Centre for Global Mental Health March 2012
Why mental health matters for mothers and children
Prof. Louise Howard, Institute of Psychiatry
Prof. Betty Kirkwood, LSHTM
Prof. Atif Rahman, University of Liverpool
17.15-18.45 Tuesday 13th March
John Snow B lecture, Keppel St | More info
- Women's health 2011: the 19th annual congress. April 2011
- Saving Mothers' Lives: Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer - 2006-2008. March 2011
March 2011: London - 1st March; Manchester - 2nd; Glasgow - 3rd; Dublin - 4th. Full programme details available from www.cmace.org.uk
- Familial and socio-economic influences on foetal growth 23 Feb 2011
The Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational study, Sweden, 1915-2002, by Bianca De Stavola
- Improving hospital care for children in Kenya 18 Feb 2011
Results of a cluster randomized trial, and insights from quantitative and qualitative work, by Mike English
- Improving pregnancy outcomes 25 Jan 2011
"Responding to changes in maternal, fetal, obstetric and service factors, by Dharmintra Pasupathy (KCL)
- Two talks on Childhood Disability 13 Dec 2010
"The impact of physical disabilities in the lives of young children in Malawi" by Yasmene Alavi, and "Identifying children with disabilities in rural Bangladesh" by Sue Mackey
- Recent trends in child and adolescent mortality 10 Dec 2010
A reversal of traditional assumptions, Russell Viner, UCL ICH
- Obesity in Pregnancy: Improving care and effecting change 7 Dec 2010
- Workshop on reproductive morbidity and poverty 6 Nov 2010
- KCL Women's Health Seminar 21 Oct 2010
Changes in maternal, fetal and clinical characteristics - impact on intrapartum complications. More details
- Symposium to honour Professor David Morley 18 Oct 2010
Paediatric Priorities in the Developing World: Where are we now? 18 Oct 2-5.45 at Institute of Child Health. Programme (pdf)
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