Faculty and Staff of The Center for Population and Family Health

Deborah Maine
Professor of Clinical Population & Family Health
dpm1@columbia.edu

EXPERTISE: women's health and reproductive health in
developing countries, with special emphasis on maternal mortality.

Director of the Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program; Coordinated the Prevention of Maternal Mortality Network in West Africa from 1987 to 1997; consultant to UNICEF, United Nations Development Programme, World Health Organization, United Nations Fund for Population Activities, and World Bank.

PUBLICATIONS:

Maine D., "How Do Socioeconomic Factors Affect Disparities in Maternal Mortality," JAMWA, 5 (4), 2001.

Maine D., "Has Maternal Health Care Become Too Medicalized," Pp. 485-492 in CP Puri, PFA Van Look, G Sachdeva, and C Penhale eds., Sexual and Reproductive Health Recent Advances, Future Directions, Vol. II. New Delhi, India: New Age International (P) Limited, Publishers, 2001.

Maine D., "Role of nutrition in the prevention of toxemia," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 72(1 Suppl):298S-300S, 2000 Jul.

Maine D., "What's So Special About Maternal Mortality," Pp. 175-182 in M Berer and TK Sundari Ravindran eds., Safe Motherhood Initiatives: Critical Issues. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science for Reproductive Health Matters, 1999.

Wardlaw T. and Maine D., "Process Indicators for Maternal Mortality Programmes," Pp. 24-30 in M Berer and TK Sundari Ravindran eds., Safe Motherhood Initiatives: Critical Issues. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science for Reproductive Health Matters, 1999.

Maine D. and McGinn T., "Maternal Mortality and Morbidity," in MB Goldman and MC Hatch eds., Women and Health, San Diego, USA: Academic Press, 2000.

Maine D. and Rosenfield A., "The Safe Motherhood Initiative: Why Has It Stalled," American Journal of Public Health. 89 (4), April 1999.

A.E. Yamin and D. Maine, "Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue: Measuring Compliance with International Treaty Obligations," Human Rights Quarterly, 21(3), 1999.

Akalin M., Maine D., de Francisco A., and Vaughan R. "Why Perinatal Mortality Cannot Be a Proxy for Maternal Mortality," Studies in Family Planning, 28(4):330-335, 1997.

Maine D., Akalin M., Ward V., and Kamara A. The Design and Evaluation of Maternal Mortality Programs, a manual from the Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia School of Public Health, June 1997. [see PMM homepage]

Maine D. (editor) Papers from the 1996 PMM Results Conference, with additional commentary by Allen Rosenfield, James McCarthy and Angela Kamara. Special Supplement to the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, November 1997.

Maine D. Akalin MZ. Chakraborty J. de Francisco A. Strong M. "Why did maternal mortality decline in Matlab," Studies in Family Planning. 27(4):179-87, 1996 Jul-Aug.

McGinn T., Maine D., McCarthy J., and Rosenfield A. Setting Priorities in International Reproductive Health Programs: A Practical Framework, Center for Population and Family Health, April 1996. (50 page monograph, 240K)

Maine D. "Risk, Reproduction and Rights: The Uses of Reproductive Health Data," in Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions, Cassen R. (editor) Transaction, Oxford, 1994.

Maine D. Safe Motherhood Programs: Options and Issues, Center for Population and Family Health, 1993.