For International Women’s Day, we talk about something people rarely say out loud: giving birth is still dangerous. This episode explores why maternal health is still a global issue and how we can d…
Professor Hadiza Galandaci has spent decades watching Nigerian women die from postpartum haemorrhage, a condition we know how to treat. She chose research over clinical practice because the math deman…
Babies born too soon are often born invisible to health systems, policy, and public concern. Born prematurely herself, Doris Mollel is the founder of the Doris Mollel Foundation and has made it her li…
Amber Rose Isaac died in childbirth in April 2020. For months, her deteriorating platelet levels went unaddressed. At the hospital, her husband Bruce McIntyre was denied access to his partner. In this…
When doctors are few and time is everything, predicting risk can mean the difference between life and death. Dr. Aqil Jaigirdar shares how his team is building digital tools—like Gravida—to predic…
Two Palestinian entrepreneurs, one who feeds a million labour workers a year through The Giving Family, one who bakes knafeh as a bridge between communities, both nearly lost themselves to grief and n…
Around the world, the color of your skin can still determine whether you survive childbirth. Sandra Igwe, Founder of The Motherhood Group, speaks candidly about her own traumatic birth experience and …
Imad Alarnab had a restaurant empire in Damascus. In six days, the Syrian war took it all. He fled with nothing, cooked for 400 refugees on church steps in Calais, and watched pregnant women make impo…
A simple, one-dollar tool is changing how postpartum hemorrhage is detected and treated, saving mothers’ lives in minutes. From Karachi to Islamabad, Dr. Sidrah Nausheen, Associate Professor of Obst…
Humza Yousaf on why governments must treat maternal health as a strategic investment, not an afterthought. From Scotland's Baby Box and Best Start Grants to raising his own taxes to fund them, a conve…
Maternal deaths are not accidents; they are failures of systems, leadership, and accountability. Her Excellency Toyin Saraki reflects on decades of advocacy for respectful maternity care and health-sy…
Nadeen Ayoub made history as the first Miss Palestine at Miss Universe, then came home to a reality where Palestinian mothers give birth without clean water, without safe passage through checkpoints, …
Access to basic medicines shouldn’t depend on your postcode, but for millions, it still does. Emmanuel Akpakwu, founder of Axmed, is reimagining the pharmaceutical supply chain to make high-quality …
