Health

Notes From the Field: Haiti (Part I.)

By Jessica Bowers, Grants Program Director

Pregnancy: A Matter of the Heart

By Dr. Jennifer Haythe

As a cardiologist who specializes in the care of women with heart disease, I am repeatedly confronted with one overwhelming truth — women do not know that cardiovascular disease is their #1 risk of death. The reasons for…

Giving Birth in America: Building a Movement

The United States is facing a maternal health crisis. The rate of mothers dying due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth has nearly doubled in the last 25 years, making the US the only wealthy country where rates of maternal mortality are…

Celebrating Nur Jaham and the Many Other Fistula Survivors on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula

By Jessica Bowers, Director of Grants Program

5th International Day to End Obstetric Fistula

Post Partum — It’s Not A Disease

Rebeecca Egbert, former midwife and Maternal Health Coach, sets a new gold standard for postpartum health.


By: Rebecca Egbert, former midwife and Maternal Health Coach

I remember the first time I heard the term “postpartum” used nonchalantly on a run. I stopped my…

National Men’s Health Week

This is not a national secret: Guys don’t like going to doctors. 

When women get sick, they’re three times more likely to seek medical attention than men even though men die younger than women and are more likely to get sick from heart disease, cancer, stroke and AIDS. Even when…