Caitlin R. Williams (김장매 딸)
@caitlinrain.bsky.social
Global #SRHR, working at the intersection of public policy, human rights, and imp sci. These days, all things #PPH. Posts = own views https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-869X
🩸 Sunday marks the first-ever #WorldPPHDay. A new commentary reflects on progress since the launch of the PPH Roadmap, and why urgent, coordinated action is needed to end preventable deaths from PPH—still a leading cause of maternal mortality. 🔗 bit.ly/3IMs0qm
Powerful opinion piece in today’s NYT from Perri Klass (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o... #PedsID #IDSky #PedsSky
Opinion | ‘I Never Want to See a Case of Polio, but I’m Very Fearful I Will’
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Michael Marmot: “There’s enough in the world to make one despair. But we know what must be done—we just have to do it” www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Michael Marmot: “There’s enough in the world to make one despair. But we know what must be done—we just have to do it”
The Marmot review’s author spoke to the WIRED Health conference about “proportionate universalism,” racism, and a million UK children living in destitution. Mun-Keat Looi reports ### Biography…
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Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide. Unitaid is working with @jhpiego.org to scale up use of calibrated drapes – simple tools that allow health workers to detect dangerous bleeding quickly and accurately. Learn more: unitaid.org/news-blog/un...
Unitaid supports uptake of objective blood loss measurement devices to advance lifesaving care for postpartum hemorrhage in resource-limited settings - Unitaid
Jhpiego will receive an additional US$2.3 million in funding to integrate the calibrated drape into existing programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea and India, and support catalytic procu...
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Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies - KFF Health News
More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital that serves small towns, farming communities, and a Native American reservation. Patients the...
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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵
Learn more about the Midwifery Accelerator, a global initiative led by UNFPA, @who.int , @unicef.org , the @internationalmidwives.org, Jhpiego, and partners to ensure midwives are equipped and supported to deliver high-quality, respectful care: www.unfpa.org/publications...
The Midwifery Accelerator: expanding health care for women and newborns
Investing in midwives is a cost-effective and sustainable strategy to improve maternal and newborn health and well-being and reduce mortality. There is ample evidence to show that care provided by mid...
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Midwives are essential to health system resilience. By achieving universal coverage of midwife-delivered care by 2035, we could avert 67% of maternal deaths, 64% of newborn deaths, and 65% of stillbirths—saving 4.3 million lives every year. #IDM2025
With maternal mortality declining just 2.5% per year since 2016, we must act faster. The REACH trial, led by Unitaid and partners, could help deliver a transformative medicine to more women, no matter where they give birth. Every life counts. Learn more: unitaid.org/news-blog/cl...
Clinical trial to evaluate broader use of lifesaving, heat-stable medicine for postpartum hemorrhage moves forward - Unitaid
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Today is International Day for Maternal Health and Rights 🤰🏾🤱🏻 (thread) Earlier this week, WHO and partners released the latest estimates on trends in maternal mortality (bit.ly/42kB7UK). We have made tremendous strides.
Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN agencies warn
Women today are more likely than ever to survive pregnancy and childbirth according to a major new report released today, but United Nations (UN) agencies highlight the threat of major backsliding as ...
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Según la Dra Suzanne Serruya, esté año, por primera vez, la OMS y la OPS han decidido que nuestro enfoque en salud maternal y neonatal no solamente dirigiría las actividades del #DíaMundialDeSalud sino que también las de todo el año. Porque las madres y los neonatos SÍ importan. 💪🤰🏽🤱👶🏿
This #WorldHealthDay, I'm reminded just how much progress we've made in improving maternal survival ... and just how much work we still have to do to ensure that all moms can thrive. Latest trends data are here --> cdn.who.int/media/docs/d... Onwards.
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WHO@who.int · last yr.It's #WorldHealthDay Since 2000, maternal deaths globally declined by 40%! 💙 BUT—progress is slowing, and aid funding cuts mean major threats to lifesaving maternity services in many parts of the world. ❌
LAUNCHING NOW! UNAIDS wants to hear from you! Your insights, lived experiences, and ideas will help shape the Global AIDS Strategy 2026-2031. Have your say. Take 15 minutes to fill out our survey: surveymonkey.com/r/SJN6RXX #endAIDS #GlobalAIDSStrategy2031
Closing on Monday! ➡️ lancetcountdown.org/join-our-team/
Join our team - Lancet Countdown
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The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change@lancetcountdown.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 We're looking for a Research Fellow to join our team! 📊 Are you an early career researcher with quantitative & geospatial data analysis skills? This could be the role for you: lancetcountdown.org/join-our-team/ 📍 Location: London 💰 Salary: £43,374–£51,860 ⏳ Deadline: 7 April
"The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) has made a groundbreaking US$150 million commitment, a five-fold increase from its previous contribution."
Global Fund Secures First Eighth Replenishment Pledge – A Historic Private Sector Commitment from Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) today announced the first pledge to its Eighth Replenishment Campaign – and it comes from the private sector. The Children’s I...
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Trans and gender-diverse patients should be able to access inclusive, thoughtful, and respectful care without restrictions, burdens, or stigma. ACOG continues to be committed to uplifting and supporting trans and gender-diverse patients, who are a vital part of communities everywhere.
The US axing funding for contraception will cause a 12% increase in global maternal mortality. That's another 34,000 women who will die due to pregnancy and childbirth. It will cause another 17.1 million unintended pregnancies, and 5.2 million unsafe abortions www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
Did you know that many cases of childhood hearing loss are preventable? A recent study showed that vaccines could prevent up to 40% of childhood hearing loss caused by infections like #measles, #meningitis and #rubella.
New review finds vaccines could drastically reduce global hearing loss in children
Millions of children could be protected from life-altering hearing loss through better vaccine access.
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Some very bad news: New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
“By Gavi’s own estimate, the loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result.”
Amee Vanderpool@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · last yr.The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century. gvwire.com/2025/03/26/u...
Visiting PhD fellowships with the good people at @unu-wider.bsky.social - including on tax and public finance! Please share widely www.wider.unu.edu/opportunity/...
UNU-WIDER : Visiting PhD Fellowship
Our Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme gives registered doctoral students an opportunity to utilize the resources and facilities at UNU-WIDER for their PhD dissertation or thesis research on developing...
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Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!
Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
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La santé des femmes doit être une priorité. Renforcer les systèmes de santé et garantir un accès équitable aux soins améliore non seulement leur bien-être, mais aussi celui des communautés et des économies. Il est temps d’agir. Pour en savoir plus : unitaid.org/fr/news-blog...
Unitaid appelle à une plus grande mobilisation en faveur de la santé des femmes - Unitaid
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World Book Day reading for future visioning… “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement” by Monica M. White Because farming is a praxis of food justice, which itself is co-constitutive of reproductive justice.
📣 PMNCH is shaping its Strategic Plan 2026-2030, & we need YOUR insights to build a bold, impactful roadmap for women’s, children’s & adolescents’ health. 🤔 How can you participate? 👇 📄 Review the Strategy Working Paper 🗓️ Share your feedback by March 14 pmnch.who.int/news-and-eve...
Breaking Barriers, Building Futures: PMNCH Strategic Plan 2026-2030 Consultation
Download the documentWelcome – Help Shape the Future of PMNCH Led by our Board, we at PMNCH are developing our new Strategy for the period 2026 to 2030, to strengthen our impact and drive meaningful c...
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Excellent analysis on the social implications of COVID (or any similar health emergency, for that matter) There’s been similar, though smaller scale, fallout from other epidemics, like Ebola and SARS www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | How Covid Remade Our America, Five Years Later (Gift Article)
It feels as if the pandemic is behind us. But we’re living in the world it made.
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These authors have done the Lord's work in synthesising multidisciplinary meta-analyses of individual & structural determinants of behaviour. What a fantastic overview. Hats off! Focus on removing social & structural barriers rather than targeting knowledge & beliefs! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Request for proposals: Systematic reviews to inform WHO guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma in primary care www.ungm.org/public/Notic...
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Do you need a measles booster? (Talk to your health care provider - chart is a general guideline) www.npr.org/sections/sho...
We have up to 15 positions open for the CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellowship — now with more time to apply. In California, we're proud to place scientists directly into the Legislature, State Agencies, and Offices of the California @governor.ca.gov to inform our policies. #scipol #scicomm
California Council on Science and Technology (CCST)@ccst.us · last yr.⏳ A little more time to cross the finish line! The CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellowship application deadline is now March 10. One extra week to finish — or start — your application. ccst.us/ccst-science... #scipol #scicomm #phd #phdjobs #sciencepolicy #caleg #postdoc #stemjobs #sciencejobs
