FIGO’s Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health Committee, in collaboration with IPA, WRA, ICM, and WHO have published new guidelines for mother-baby friendly birthing facilities. These guidelines were developed in response to rising rates of abuse, neglect, and coercion of birthing women i

The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) has expanded its guidelines to include the NASG for treatment of hypovolemic shock secondary to obstetric hemorrhage. This recommendation demonstrates its confidence in the NASG by summarizing the published scientific tr

In November 2014, we arrived in Tanzania to launch the Ifakara Health Institute’s (IHI) Maternal Health intervention. The LifeWrap and mobile phones will be distributed across 8 rural districts and 278 health facilities. For the first level of training all Referral Facility staf

In an interview with Barbara Glickstein from Healthstyles, Center for Health Media and Policy at Hunter College, our LifeWrap Igniter Dr. Suellen Miller discusses the LifeWrap’s start and its profound global effects in saving mothers’ lives despite pervasive social and gen

Guidelines for mother-baby friendly birthing facilities have been developed by FIGO Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health Committee in order to increase the quality of care and reduce alarming rates of abuse, neglect, and coercion of birthing women in healthcare facilities. These guideli

        Dec 14, 2014 Dear Friends of Safe Motherhood: Greetings to all of you, who have remained friends of Safe Motherhood through the past decade. This is an update of some of the activities that UCSF Safe Motherhood Program and the LifeWrap have had in 2014. I h

Safe Motherhood Program research shows biases against abortion impacts women’s access to emergency transport in Zambia The Safe Motherhood Program at UCSF is pleased to announce that the newest paper by Amy Penn, Elizabeth Butrick and colleagues, “Access to transport for women with hy

Professor Suellen Miller met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame during his visit to UCSF’s Global Health Sciences on February 27, 2014. Dr. Miller was one of four UCSF faculty to present their research. Professor Miller presented on the NASG and how its integration into the heal

On December 17, 2014, Professor Suellen Miller presented at “Global Health 2035”, the San Francisco launch of the Lancet publication. Prompted by the 20th anniversary of Investing in Health, the World Bank’s 1993 World Development Report (WDR 1993), an independent co

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