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Quality of Care
Improving maternal and newborn outcomes requires more than increasing access to services – it demands a strong focus on quality of care.
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High-quality care integrates prevention, early detection, and timely intervention, ensuring that risks are identified before complications become life-threatening while lifesaving care is available when needed. A holistic approach that balances prevention with effective clinical intervention strengthens continuity across the care pathway, improves patient experience, and reduces avoidable harm. This balance is essential to truly move the needle on maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity, delivering lasting health gains for women and newborns.
Below, you’ll find our recent blog posts and other related resources focused on quality of care.
Prevention
- Commentary in the Lancet Global Health by Franka Cadée, Director Safe Delivery Programme: “Prevention First, Preparedness Always” (2025)
- Blog post by Franka Cadée, Director Safe Delivery Programme: “Why Prevention Lies at the Basis of a Sustainable Quality Care During Birth” (2025)
Maternal Health and Non-Communicable Diseases
- Joint op-ed with World Diabetes Foundation, published by AlignMNH by Anna Frellsen, CEO & Sanne Frost Helt, Senior Director for Policy, Programme and Partnership at World Diabetes Foundation: “Closing the Gap: Integrating Maternal Health and Gestational Diabetes Care for Lifelong Health”(2025)
- Joint policy brief with UNFPA, WHO, World Diabetes Foundation, HRP Research, Jhpiego, and NCD Alliance: “Integration Across the Life Course” (2025)
- Blog post by Julie Strøyer Rasmussen, Head of Programme Development and Support, Dr. Bhaskar Sen, Programme Officer-GDM, and Disha Agarwalla, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager: “Empowering Healthcare Professionals to Detect Gestational Diabetes in India through the Safe Delivery+ Approach”(2025)
- Joint impact story with World Diabetes Foundation: “Maternity Foundation and World Diabetes Foundation Deliver Strong Results in Advancing Gestational Diabetes Care in India” (2025)
Microlearning
- Blog post by Anna Frellsen, CEO, & Franka Cadée, Director Safe Delivery Programme: “Microlearning via the Safe Delivery App: The Smart Way to Upskill Midwives” (2025)
Philanthropy
Philanthropy is undergoing a profound transformation — shifting from traditional charity to strategic, long‑term investment in systemic change. In a world marked by overlapping crises, strained public systems, and declining aid budgets, this new approach positions philanthropy as a critical partner in delivering sustainable solutions to global challenges, including accelerating progress in maternal health. We believe philanthropists should be invited to the table as essential partners in cross‑sector collaboration. By providing early risk capital, philanthropists can help unlock solutions that governments and markets can later scale — and, with their long‑term vision for systemic change, they can remain committed partners throughout that journey. Below, you’ll find our recent blog posts and other related resources focused on philanthropy.
- Blog post by Anna Frellsen, CEO, Maternity Foundation, Ingrid Brodin Colesanti, Advisor, Maternity Foundation, and Mandana Kooijmans, Senior Program Officer, Gates Foundation: “Nordic Philanthropy Reimagined: From Generosity to Strategic Impact” (2026)
- Blog post by Anna Frellsen, CEO: “How the Rise of Strategic Philanthropists Can Inspire Hope in Global Development” (2025)
- Blog post by Anna Frellsen, CEO: “Advancing Women, Societies, and Economies Through Maternal Health: A Vital Investment for International Women’s Day” (2025)
- Joint op-ed by A. Chang, A. Frellsen, H. Awad, J. Nonvignon, s. Jensen, T. Alfvén, U. Müller, V. Christensen, published in Jyllands-Posten: “Danmark skal styrke sin indsats for global sundhed. Både for verdens og Danmarks egen skyld.” (2025)
- Joint op-ed by A. Chang, A. Frellsen, H. Awad, J. Nonvignon, S. Jensen, T. Alfvén, U. Müller, V. Christensen, H. Cleaver, published in Jyllands-Posten: “Tak for at gøre global sundhed til en dansk prioritet igen” (2025)
Humanitarian settings
- Blog post by Julie Strøyer Rasmussen, Head of Programme Development, & Sonali Das, Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Manager: “Transforming Maternal Health in the Middle East and North Africa: Expanding the Safe Delivery+ programme to Empower Midwives” (2025)
AI for good
- Blog post by Anna Frellsen, CEO, & Mohit Mathur, CTO: “From Hype to Impact – What Will It Take for AI to Truly Transform Global Health?” (2025)