Resources

You can use the Maternal and Infant Health Mapping Tool to find county-level information on maternal and infant health. You can create and customize maps for your needs. This webpage contains both written instructions and video tutorials.

Almost one in four pregnancy-related deaths is attributed to mental health conditions, including substance use disorder (SUD), making them the leading underlying cause of pregnancy-related deaths. This special issue of the Maternal and Child Health Journal builds on the evidence base, with 21 open articles that feature the latest research, program, and policy initiatives in...

Technical workforce skills and evidence-based strategies are not necessarily sufficient to move the needle on maternal health outcomes; contextual factors such as challenging political environments, lack of leadership support, funding insufficiency, staff turnover, and historically inequitable programs and outcomes also influence the ability of MHIs and RMOMs to make an impact. These systems thinking and...

Preeclampsia Foundation is working to help research move forward to better understand how to diagnose, treat, and eventually prevent the poor outcomes preeclampsia can have on patients and their families. Learn more about the actions they’ve taken and the results they’ve discovered.

This repository was compiled by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and provides an overview of research on COVID-19, maternal and child health (including infants), and nutrition. This repository includes scientific publications from 1 February 2020 – 30 April 2021.  They also built an interactive dashboard which allows users to sort publications by country, date, and publication type as well as search by keyword. 

In addition to standardized clinical level of care assessment tools, the CDC makes available assessment outcome data for participating states, which can be used in conjunction with vital records data to track health outcomes, resources, and correlates.

Data at the national and state levels on pregnancy-related deaths.

An overview and link to state sites for all Perinatal Quality Collaboratives, including examples of data-driven QI projects.

A highly visual resource of maps, data indicators, and commentary on global maternal mortality.

This website from the CDC National Center for Health Statistics includes maternal mortality statistics, review of data quality, and new coding criteria.