Deb Van Dyke had a busy week at the Women Deliver 2013 Conference in Malaysia (May 26-30). The conference—with over 4,500 attendees from 149 countries—was the largest of the decade focused on women’s and girls’ health and rights. Deb spoke at a session focused on the role of technology in creating lasting solutions for women, […]

In April, our film team launched our new video series on childbirth with a film shoot at the United Mission Hospital in Tansen, Nepal. We were awarded a significant grant from The Price Family Foundation to produce this series, which will demonstrate best-practice care from labor through birth and the immediate post-partum period. The childbirth […]

We have added four more videos on newborn care best practices to our video library: Skin Infection, The Hot Baby, Breast Engorgement, and Preparing the Birth Room. This expands our newborn care library to a total of 20 videos, more than half of the 36 films planned for this series.

We have just released six new videos on newborn care best practices: Sepsis, The Home Visit, Giving an Intradermal Injection, Jaundice, The Cold Baby, and Thrush. The videos include footage from our most recent film shoot in Nagpur, India—where we collaborated with the Lata Medical Research Foundation—as well as from our previous trip to Nigeria. […]

Global Health Media Project won one of 10 scholarships to present their work at the Women Deliver 2013 Conference in Malaysia, an important conference of world leaders advocating for maternal health. The 10 winners were chosen from 25 semi-finalists, who in turn were selected from an original pool of nearly 3,000 social entrepreneurs competing in […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has included our newborn care videos in their Reproductive Health Library (RHL). RHL is an electronic library that features both articles and videos. The content provides practical information for health care workers that will lead to better health outcomes, particularly in developing countries. With the addition of our first 10 videos […]

Deb Van Dyke spoke at the GETHealth Summit held at the United Nations in New York City on February 7th. She presented our work developing visual training tools for frontline health workers that can be accessed on mobile devices. The Summit brought together health, education, and IT leaders from around the globe to discuss how […]

Our next set of videos on the best-practice care of newborns are now being field-tested by frontline health workers around the world. The videos are based on footage shot in Nagpur, India last fall, where we collaborated with Dr. Archana Patel and the Lata Medical Research Foundation. Our film team worked closely with several pediatricians—coaching them in their […]

The Chief of Health and Nutrition with UNICEF in Mozambique has pointed to The Story of Cholera as a prime example of the kind of preventive education that can be incredibly effective in reducing infection and mortality rates from the disease in Mozambique. Many supportive comments have been added by global health professionals. Public health officials’ […]

“The task of fast and effective education in communities of varied levels of understanding is huge when dealing with a health emergency such as cholera,” said Lucy O’Connell, MSF Health Promoter in Sierra Leone. “It was great to be able to have access to your ‘Cholera Story’ video. I was impressed with the well thought […]