Maternal Health Task Force

JUNE 4, 2024

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in June 2024.

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Maternal and Child Health Reproductive Health Health Systems Strengthening Violence Prevention 52

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

JANUARY 17, 2021

Our mediation analysis showed that a small magnitude of the estimated total effect of unfavourable birth characteristics of parents on risk of ASD in their children could be explained by parental educational status and mental health in adulthood. Zeyan Liew is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.

Maternal and Child Health 52

Maternal and Child Health Mental Health and Public Health Ageing and Health Environmental Health 52

Mercola

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Folate Helps Protect Against Lead's Neurotoxic Effects An October 2024 study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal 2 found that supplementing with folic acid, a synthetic version of folate, during pregnancy helps mitigate lead's neurotoxic effects. Hence, the U.S.

Maternal and Child Health 54

Maternal and Child Health Environmental Health and Safety Ageing and Health Risk Factors 54

NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

The tool kit was produced in 2022 through a collaboration between Americares , a nonprofit that provides health-focused aid in response to disasters, and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Climate Change and Health 112

Climate Change and Health Disaster and Emergency Management Emergency Preparedness and Response Environmental Health and Safety 112

Mercola

JANUARY 22, 2025

Did you know that the flame retardants in your homes electronics and other items could be affecting your childs brain development? 2 This means that the very substances meant to protect your home are undermining your childs future. The offspring of these mice were then monitored for various health aspects as they grew.

Maternal and Child Health 79

Maternal and Child Health Reproductive Health Environmental Health 79

NC Health News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.

Health Policy 119

Health Policy Mental Health and Public Health Maternal and Child Health Public Health Law and Regulation 119