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Yuval Cohen

Yuval Cohen was a staff intern with the Maternal Health Initiative from 2018-2019.

  • New Report: Six Steps Towards Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  May 29, 2019  //  By Yuval Cohen & Nazra Amin
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    “Women and girls are central to any strategy toward ending preventable maternal mortality. Women and girls defining their own needs and demanding them is paramount to change.”

     —Six Steps Towards Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality

    In Six Steps Towards Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality, Sarah B. Barnes, Project Director of the Maternal Health Initiative, Geeta Lal, Senior Technical Advisor at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and Elizabeth Wang, Staff Intern at the Maternal Health Initiative, discuss suggested steps to prevent avoidable maternal deaths, globally.

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  • Too Little Too Late: Violence Disrupts Maternal Health Care in Conflict Settings

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    Dot-Mom  //  The Three Delays  //  August 27, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen

    UNFPA-Baby“One of the first victims of war is the health care system itself,” said Marco Baldan, the chief war surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Violence directed at health facilities and workers is common in conflict, despite international laws protecting medical personnel, facilities, and transport vehicles during war.

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  • Driven to Care: Improving Transportation to Reach Maternal Health Care in Conflict Zones

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    Dot-Mom  //  The Three Delays  //  August 20, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen

    Refugee-Woman-with-ChildHow much time passes between a laboring woman’s decision to seek care and her arrival at a health facility? Transportation for emergency obstetric care should be swift and timely, but for many refugees in the world’s conflict zones, it is not.

    An analysis of refugee maternal mortality in 10 countries found that transportation problems contributed to more maternal deaths outside of refugee camps, which tend to have better access to emergency transportation services.

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  • Death From Delay: Improving Maternal Health Care in Conflict Zones

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    Dot-Mom  //  The Three Delays  //  August 13, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen

    Rohingyan-Woman-235How much time passes before a woman—or her relatives—decide to seek care or emergency medical services during pregnancy? It often depends on how much they know about the services available.

    This information may be hard to come by in conflict-affected areas, especially among internally displaced women. According to a retrospective study of health care during the 2006 war in Lebanon, 80 percent of Lebanese pregnant women before the war sought antenatal care, while the share of displaced women seeking care was only 34.5 percent.

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  • From Day One: Malawi President Joyce Banda on Girls Ages 0-10

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    Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  July 23, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen
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    “Over 130 million girls around the world are not in school through no fault of their own,” said Her Excellency Joyce Banda, former president of the Republic of Malawi, at the launch of her new book, From Day One: Why Supporting Girls Aged O to 10 Is Critical to Change Africa’s Path, at the Center for Global Development.

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  • Women and Cancer in India

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  Reading Radar  //  July 18, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen
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    As India faces an emerging cancer crisis, how do South Indian women conceptualize what causes reproductive cancers—and how to cure them? New qualitative research from Cecilia Van Hollen, a medical anthropologist and Wilson Center Public Policy Fellow, illuminates the complex perceptions and personal experiences of women in Tamil Nadu, the first state to integrate cancer screening into its primary health care system.

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  • One Woman’s Story: Preeclampsia Goes Untreated in Ethiopia

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  June 15, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen

    Dempsey-235“This is a woman who did exactly what she was supposed to do; she did exactly what we encourage pregnant women to do,” said Amy Dempsey of the Population Council at a recent Wilson Center event on World Preeclampsia Day. The Ethiopian woman was suffering from preeclampsia—a preventable condition—but like many pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries, she did not receive the treatment needed to stop it. “Pregnancy was the first time she had ever stepped foot in a health facility,” said Dempsey.

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  • Fragile Families: Scaling Up Healthcare in Conflict Settings

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  June 8, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen

    Panel-235“How do our interventions provide an opportunity to really work at some of the core drivers of instability or lack of resilience?” said Larry Cooley from Management Systems International at a recent Wilson Center event on scaling up reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health interventions.

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