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MOMI African partners attend Integration for
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MDG 4 GOAL Representatives from the four MOMI African Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 countries had the opportunity to participate and 2015, the mortality rate of children as a pre‐formed oral‐poster panel in the under five Integration for Impact Conference held between 12th and 14th September 2012 in MDG 5 GOAL: Nairobi, Kenya. The conference brought To reduce by three quarters, between together stakeholders from Sub‐Saharan 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality countries with high HIV disease burden, ratio and achieve by 2015, Universal access to reproductive health unmet need for FP, high infant and maternal morbidity and mortality. Fron left to right: Gilda Gondola, Gibson Masache,
Danielle Belemsaga and Christine Katingima
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The purpose of the conference was to present recent research findings, identify research priorities, lay out strategies for UCL presents MOMI
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Visit to Ghent University by MOMI PhD
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Introducing MOMI
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UEM team,
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ICRH team, Mozambique
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UCL team
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strengthening policies and translating research into practice. During the oral panel presentation, Christine led the presentation by giving a brief overview of the project together with the preliminary findings from the situational analysis in Kenya. This was followed by Gilda’s presentation on maternal, newborn and child health policy analysis findings in Mozambique. The last two presentations were made by Gibson from Malawi on stakeholder involvement and Danielle on the process of designing interventions to improve provision of postpartum care in Burkina Faso respectively. There was a lot of interest generated by the stakeholders involvement presentation as attendees during the session shared their experiences in the same area. The panel session was followed by poster presentation where all presenters had an opportunity to interact further with conference attendees on the findings from their respective countries. Danielle at the poster stand
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UCL presents MOMI findings at the World Health Summit
In October 2012, Sue Mann went to Berlin to attend the World Health Summit on behalf of the MOMI consortium. She presented a poster on the Comparative Policy Analysis of Work Package 2. We were lucky enough to have our poster selected from 169 submissions for the Lancet’s New Voices in Global Health initiative and to have the abstract published in The Lancet’s supplement of October 21. The conference was attended by many of the key players in Global Health so has been good for MOMI to have a place on this platform and the poster itself was well received. MOMI at GLOW conference
“The risk of maternal mortality is highest for adolescent girls
and increases with each pregnancy, yet progress on family
planning has stalled and funding has not kept pace with demand”
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010 WHO
Els Duysburgh attended the Global Women's Research Society (GLOW) conference in Liverpool. She presented a poster on the methodology and results of the MOMI baseline assessment. The conference was oriented towards UK‐researchers but however relevant for the MOMI project as maternal, newborn and child health issues were presented and discussed. MOMI poster presented at
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Visit to Ghent University by MOMI PhD students
Last September Danielle, Irene and Gibson worked from the new ICRH offices in Belgium to prepare their PhD proposal for submission to the Ghent University doctoral commission. It was an intensive period for all of them, because in the meantime they completed application forms, elaborated posters for the Integration for Impact conference (see elsewhere in this newsletter), presented their embryonic research ideas to the ICRH staff, and discovered food and life in Belgium. Danielle's application has been approved in the meantime, and we are now looking forward to the approval of Irene's and Gibson's From left to right: Gibson Masache, Birgit Kerstens, Irene
Jao, Els Duysburgh and Danielle Belemsaga at the new
ICRH Belgium offices
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ICRH Mozambique team
Beatrice Crahay (MD, MPH) Beatrice is the principal investigator of the International Centre for Reproductive Health Mozambique for the MOMI project. She is also the Country Director of ICRH Mozambique. Prior to her current position, she worked in various capacities for Medicine San Frontières, UNFPA and WHO. Her career interest is in integration of sexual and reproductive health. Gilda Gondola Sitefane (BA, MSc, MPH) Gilda is Co‐investigator of the ICRH Mozambique for MOMI. She is research officer at ICRH Mozambique. She also teaches Theories of Public Policy at Universidade Pedagógica. Eduardo Mondale University (UEM) team, Mozambique Maternal mortality
has nearly halved
Nafissa is a medical doctor by profession, specialized in Gynecology and since 1990, but
Obstetrics. She is Principal Investigator of the Eduardo Mondlane University levels are far
(UEM) ‐ Faculty of Medicine for MOMI project. She works at the Central removed from the
2015 target
Hospital of Maputo. Nafissa Bique Osman (MD, MSc, PhD) As head of the academic department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Faculty of Medicine ‐ UEM, she is professor in the medical school and she also teaches students of the Master of Public Health. The Millennium Development
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Khatia Munguambe (BSc., MSc., PhD) Severiano Charles Foia (MD) Khatia is a biologist by training and a Severiano is the District Medical senior researcher in community Officer of Chiúta District where health and socio‐behavioural studies the research is taking place. He is by profession. She teaches scientific the junior researcher of the UEM research methodologies for the Masters in Public team. He is the junior researcher Health at the Faculty of Medicine of UEM. She is of the UEM team. co‐investigator of the UEM in the project. PAGE
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University College London (UCL) team
Sue Mann MBBS, MPH Susan is a clinician and public health researcher and has been leading on MOMI Work Package 2. Trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a Specialist in Public health, she now divides her time between clinical work in Reproductive Health and research at UCL. Her main research interests include Health Systems Research and Improvement Science. She currently holds a UK Fellowship Knowledge Mobilisation which is concerned with investigating new ways of combining best with clinical knowledge to maximise quality in service delivery for Reproductive Health. “The large
increase in
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Tim Colbourn Tim will be leading on MOMI work package 6, the evaluation of the interventions. Tim is an epidemiologist and health economist with interests in a wide range of areas of global health, and especially those related to the health of mothers and newborns. Tim holds a BSc in Microbiology from UCL, an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases from LSHTM, and has just completed a PhD in Health Economics from UCL, studying part‐time whilst working full‐time in Malawi, evaluating the MaiKhanda programme over the past 5 years. Tim is a Research Associate at UCL and is now based in London with regular travel to Malawi and other project sites. As well as MOMI, Tim is also working on a project evaluating the effects of the new pneumonia vaccine in Malawi, a project looking at evidence, accountability and action to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Malawi and 5 other African countries, and comparisons of the effects of community participatory women’s groups in UCL‐linked sites in Malawi, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Bejoy Nambiar Bejoy is a Research Associate with Institute for Global Health UCL (University College London) and is the UCL coordinator for MOMI project. His career interests include improving health systems for maternal and child health, establishing population surveillance sites, generating evidence through good quality research and getting evidence into policy and implementation. Bejoy lives and works in Malawi. The project aims to add to global knowledge about how postpartum services could be more effectively organized, both at facility and community level, to improve maternal and newborn health Contact information ICRH ‐ Ghent University De Pintelaan 185 P3 9000 Ghent Phone: +32 (0)9 332 35 64 Fax: +32 (0)9 332 38 67 http://www.momiproject.eu/ MOMI
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