Maternal Health

Free online courses and resources:

• The Fifth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health examine the required policy solutions, investments, and multi-sectoral partnerships to address health and care workforce challenges and advance health systems towards universal health coverage and health security.
• This technical brief aims to: support governments to strengthen government chief nursing and midwifery officers (‎GCNMOs)‎ in their countries; identify the current roles and responsibilities of GCNMOs and senior nursing and midwifery leaders in the WHO European Region; and explore the enablers to support GCNMOs and/or senior nursing and midwifery leaders to work more effectively to support improved health outcomes. 
• Bilateral agreements on health worker migration and mobility helps state actors develop and manage government-to-government agreements to optimize health worker mobility, ensuring alignment with the WHO Global Code of Practice. Developed by WHO, OECD, and ILO, it focuses on strengthening health systems through effective policy considerations.
• The health labour market analysis guidebook provides a comprehensive overview of the health labour market, offers guidance on how to analyse and understand its dynamics, and identifies key steps to undertake a health labour market analysis
• The Framework for Action to Strengthen Midwifery Education guides the development of high-quality midwifery training to improve maternal and newborn health, featuring a seven-step action plan and insights from global consultations
• Presents the Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for Universal Health Coverage, which aims to enhance health worker education by aligning it with population health needs and health system demands
• New curricula package published for human resources for health practitioners provides a curricula package to train leaders in human resources for health, emphasizing effective management to ensure quality health services
• The Global Health and Care Worker Compact offers recommendations to ensure safe, supportive working conditions for health and care workers, promoting their rights and inclusivity while referencing international legal instruments, as endorsed by the World Health Assembly
• Antenatal Care orients participants to key concepts in antenatal care (ANC), including the importance of focused (goal-directed) ANC.
• A Total Market Approach to Family Planning Services examines how to identify how a TMA [Total Market Approach] can lead to a healthy market for FP [Family Planning] services and understand the roles of different sectors within that healthy market.
• Cervical Cancer Prevention (Low – Resource Settings) provides essential knowledge about the burden of cervical cancer; effective and low-cost tools available to detect and treat precancerous lesions; information about the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine; links between HIV, HPV, and cervical cancer; and proven program approaches applied in low-resource settings to combat this preventable killer.
• Community-Based Family Planning introduces the essential elements for designing and implementing successful, sustainable CBFP [Community-Based Family Planning] programs.
• Contracting for Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services introduces the essential steps and concepts needed for purchasers (such as governments and insurance companies) and providers to evaluate, negotiate, and manage contracts for family planning and other health services. 
• Creating an Enabling Environment for Young Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers explores considerations for policymakers and how to create policies that support programming for young vulnerable children and their caregivers.
• Effective Coverage of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care Services in Africa: A Scoping Review
• Female Disadvantage examines the female disadvantage in East and South Asia.
• Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is an overview of FGM/C (Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting) and examples of interventions that have worked—as well as those that have not worked—to encourage the abandonment of the practice.
• FIGO Preconception Checklist: Preconception care for mother and baby
• Global Adolescent Health examines approaches to understanding the factors that affect adolescent health and well-being around the world.
• Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy focuses on Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) practices.
• HIV and Infant Feeding Counselling: A training course discusses how to work with breastfeeding mothers and infants affected by HIV. 
• Hormonal Methods of Contraception provides information that program managers and clinic staff can use to improve the quality of care in providing hormonal contraceptive methods.
• INTERGROWTH-21st course on maternal, fetal and newborn growth monitoring examines the methodology of maternal, fetal and newborn growth monitoring and the application of the INTERGROWTH-21st international growth standards to determine appropriateness of growth.
• Introduction to Early Childhood Development reviews childhood development, how HIV impacts the developmental trajectory of young children, and how, in the absence of intervention, children can suffer life-long consequences.
• IUD explores what can be done to revitalize IUD use, recognizing the importance of an informed user’s choice of contraceptive methods.
• ISUOG (International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology) Practice Guidelines translated into 17 languages
• ISUOG (International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology) Practice Guidelines in English
• Malaria in Pregnancy provides health professionals with an overview of both the science and the programming associated with prevention and control of malaria in pregnancy (MIP).
• Maternal Infections provides a discussion of maternal infections
• Newborn Sepsis reviews key issues in the prevention and treatment of neonatal infections, emphasizing recognition and management of bacterial infections at peripheral facilities and in the community, and issues of global public health importance.
• NHS England – Maternal Safety Information
• Obstetric Fistula reviews the definition, epidemiology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and management of Obstetric Fistula.
• Postpartum Care provides a review of postpartum care and corresponding care recommendations.
• Prenatal Testing – Multiple Languages
• Postpartume Depression – Mutliple Languages
• Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage orients participants to the causes of PPH [Postpartum Hemorrhage] and the evidence-based methods of preventing PPH.
• Promising Programmatic Approaches for Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH) provides an overview of promising approaches as well as case studies of effective programs that improve young people’s sexual and reproductive health.-
• Special Considerations for Highly Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers explores the role of “shocks” in the development of young children which can lead to developmental delays… [and] will explore the needs of children with HIV and/or disabilities and potential interventions for such children so that they can reach their developmental potential.
• Standard Days Method explores the SDM [Standard Days Method] as a family planning method.
• Summary of International Guidelines for Physical Activity Following Pregnancy
• US Abortion and FP Requirements – 2017 provides an overview of the US abortion and family planning legislative and policy requirements that govern US foreign assistance.
• WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience
• Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health provides an introduction to key sexual and reproductive health issues of youth, including the relationship between gender norms and health and an overview of the best programmatic approaches for improving young people’s sexual and reproductive health.