• $275,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  Population & Reproductive Health

  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — The World Health Organization has developed a "Safe Childbirth Checklist" which has been tested in nine countries and is being rigorously studied in India. The pilot study results have led actors in a wide variety of countries to express interest in adapting the tools to their own settings, but they need support to do so properly. This project will allow the development of a team and a web-based platform aimed at assisting the roll-out of checklists in new locations. The project will ensure the documentation, compilation, and analysis of maternal health checklist approaches.

• $225,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 2 years)

  Migration

  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — To support a project titled, The Economics of Immigration: A Reassessment (over two years).

• $300,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 2 years)

  Population & Reproductive Health

  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) was established in 2008 to serve as a maternal health research and information clearinghouse, an innovation and technology incubator, a catalyst for bringing new voices to the field, and a neutral convening space for organizations. The MHTF contributes to building a stronger evidence base for maternal health, greater consensus in the field, new thinking and approaches that will move the field forward, and improvements in coordination and collaboration. In its first iteration, the Maternal Health Task Force was housed at EngenderHealth, an NGO in New York City. In its second phase, it will have a home at the Harvard School of Public Health and will focus primarily on India, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. This grant will support adding Mexico as a priority country; contributing to a small grants fund for innovative maternal health projects; adding morbidities to their areas of interest; and convening experts to strategize about how to ensure that maternal and reproductive health remain on the post-2015 development agenda.

• $1,200,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  Population & Reproductive Health

  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — To develop and apply a maternal morbidity and mortality policy model (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Harvard University School of Public Health $2,000,000 between 2010 and 2013.