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        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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In the November 2013 issue of The Lancet, Karin Stenberg et. al have named the Non-pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) as an evidence-based innovation for reducing maternal mortality that will increase the positive impact of the new Global Investment Framework on reproductive, materna

  The Non-pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) is featured in the December print issue of Wired Magazine, “Fix the World”, guest edited by Bill Gates. Wired calls the NASG “a life preserver for new moms” on pg. 52 of the magazine. More information to come w

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