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Isobel Coleman

Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program

Expertise

Democratization, economic development, civil society, gender, Middle East

Programs

Women and Foreign Policy, Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, U.S. Foreign Policy Program

Featured Publications

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Op-Ed

Improving Maternal Health Worldwide

Authors: Isobel Coleman and Laurie Garrett
The Hill

Every year, 536,000 women die during childbirth, and an additional 8 million become severely disabled. The death toll doesn’t end with the mothers: 5 percent of all newborns die after their mother’s death, and millions of other children are left orphaned. Isobel Coleman and Laurie Garrett argue that the way to reduce this staggering level of maternal mortality is to “pass legislation that shows real resolve, with money and legislated programs behind it.”

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