Innovations Team Vying for DevelopmentXChange and Peoples Choice Awards

A health worker checks a pregnant woman's blood pressure.

The U.S. Agency for International Development, the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada and The World Bank recently called upon the brightest minds across the globe to identify and scale up transformative prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in rural, low resource settings around the time

Global Partners Stand Behind Global Standards for Midwifery

Midwifery students in a classroom.

Durban, South Africa—On the last day of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Triennial Congress in Durban, South Africa, global agencies expressed their commitment to work with each other and with ICM to tackle maternal mortality. The UN Population Fund, World Health Organization (WHO), the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the International Federation of

Jhpiego’s Dr. Leslie Mancuso Wins Prestigious Ernst & Young Award

Women and children on a dirt road.

One of Eight CEOs Named 2011 Entrepreneur Of The Year Maryland Award Winners Baltimore, MD—Dr. Leslie Mancuso, President and Chief Executive Officer of the global health non-profit Jhpiego, was named one of Ernst & Young’s 2011 Maryland Entrepreneurs Of The Year®,  a prestigious award presented to only eight business executives, during a gala event in