Lauren Bellhouse is a Senior Program Associate for the EngenderHealth-led Fistula Care Plus project. She is a public health professional with over seven years of experience specializing in maternal and child health, mHealth, integrated community case management, and health systems strengthening. She has previously worked on such projects as MNCH/HIV service integration with UNICEF, training of MNCH and nutrition focused community health workers with Helen Keller International- Philippines, and establishing a community health worker training program for low-literacy traditional birth attendants in Sierra Leone with Concern Worldwide. Ms. Bellhouse received a BA from Emory University and her MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
Since 2012, Fistula Care Plus (FC+) and the prior Fistula Care Project have worked with the Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) to develop a national policy and guidance on the use of urethral catheterization, or the placing of a tube into the body to drain urine from the bladder, to prevent and conservatively treat […]
2016 brought the Fistula Care Plus (FC+) project to the end of its third year. With only two years left in the project, it is an exciting time to review progress and push forward to ensure the best possible results. This year, USAID supported fistula treatment and prevention services through the FC+ project in six […]
Fistula Care Plus joins the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other key partners annually in commemorating the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula (IDEOF). IDEOF creates an opportunity to further dialogue and intensify action within the international community to end all fistula. In the lead-up to 23 May, each country program coordinates a series […]
On Monday, May 14, more than 5,000 world leaders, activists, researchers, private-sector representatives, and other global stakeholders will arrive in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the 4th Women Deliver conference. Women Deliver 2016 is set to be the largest conference on the health, rights, and well-being of girls in the last decade. The focus of this year’s conference—how […]
The connection between sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and maternal health, as well as their effects on women’s lives, cannot be overstated. Research shows up to a third of maternal injuries and deaths are preventable when women have access to contraception.[1] By meeting the unmet need for family planning, an estimated 1.1 million infant deaths […]
