Supported Global Health Projects 2008 - 2014
Year
Country
2008
Norway/Malaw
i
Sweden/
Tanzania
Norway
USA
USA
USA
2009
Norway
Tanzania
Tanzania
USA/Tanzania
2010
Tanzania
Tanzania
Tanzania
East/Central/
Southern
African Region
The
Netherlands
England/
Tanzania
Bangladesh
USA
2011
USA
Malawi
England/
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Tanzania
Tanzania
Project title
Build trauma- and paediatric surgery at
Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe
Malawi
The current state of emergency and
critical care in Tanzania
Model for traumatraining/education in
low resource countries
Curriculum design and field testing for
global implementation of neonatal
resuscitation
Survey of available equipment for the
practice of resuscitation methods taught
in Helping Babies Breathe
Implementation testing for Helping
Babies Breathe, saving a million newborn
lives
Basic neonatal resuscitation in developing
countries; evaluating the Helping Babies
Breathe initiative
The cost effectiveness of imple-menting
Helping Babies Breathe at Haydom
Lutheran Hospital
Data gathering in preparation for Helping
Babies Breathe in the lake district of
Tanzania
Achieving universal coverage in Tanzania
of skilled birth attendants
The cost effectiveness of imple-menting
Helping Babies Breathe at Haydom
Lutheran Hospital
Achieving universal coverage in Tanzania
of skilled birth attendants
Helping Babies Breathe and Helping
Mothers deliver to improve neonatal and
maternal outcome at Haydom Lutheran
Hospital
Strengthening capacity to reduce
newborn mortality in the East, Central
and Southern African Region
Helping mothers deliver – an assessment of the quality of obstetric care and
a prospective study of the impact of
simulation based training in emergency
obstetric care in a resource-limited rural
hospital in Tanzania
Improving newborn survival in Southern
Tanzania
System evaluation of scaling up of
Helping Babies Breathe curriculum in
facility and community settings in
Bangladesh
Does implementation of Helping Babies
Breathe save lives?
Helping mothers deliver
Validating effectiveness of MamaNatalie
and NeoNatalie simulation educational
programs among midwifery students at
Kamuzu College of Nursing in Malawi
A pilot study to evaluate the effect of an
obstetric emergency training package on
maternal and neonatal outcomes in
Zimbabwe
Revised proposal for fetal heart rate
monitoring research
National implementation of helping
babies breath in Tanzania
Randomized trial comparing effectiveness
of the standard pinard fetoscope vs hand
held doppler ultrasound for detecting
fetal heart rate abnormalities and
Applier
Asgaut Viste
Tim Baker
Kari Schrøder
Hansen
Susan Niermeyer
Susan Niermeyer
Susan Niermeyer
Hege Langli Ersdal
Erling Svensen
Monica Prieto
Jeffrey Perlman
Erling Svensen
Georgina Msemo
Erling Svensen
Gakenia Wamuyu
Maina
Ellen Nelissen
Joanna
Schellenberg
Ishtiaq Mannan
NCHD
Robert Skinner
Ellen Chirwa
Joanna Crofts
Joy Lawn
Georgina Msemo
Hussein Kidanto
Tanzania
South Africa
Mexico
USA
2012
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Uganda
Tanzania
Myanmar
Nepal
Nepal
Zimbabwe
India and
Botswana
Tanzania
Burkina Faso
Tanzania
USA
USA
USA
2013
Norway
USA/Africa
USA
USA
reducing neonatal mortality and fresh
stillbirths
Achieving universal coverage in Tanzania
of skilled birth attendants
Improving perinatal and neonatal
outcomes in the Eastern Cape Soth Africa
through training midwqives and doctors
in the Helping Babies Breathe program
Validating Pronto2, a high-fidelity, lowtech simulation-based training curriculum
for neonatal and obstetric emergencies in
resource-limited settings
Field validation study of the training
materials and methods for the Bleeding
After Birth Module
Safer births – cardio respiratory
transition at birth, a descriptive/analytic
cohort study
Improving intrapartum and postpartum
maternal and neonatal outcomes, an
internvention project in Addis Ababa
Randomized clinical trial assessing
laryngeal mask vs bag-mask ventilation
in neonatal resuscitation in Uganda
A local and global perspective on the role
of multi professional scenario-based
training aimed at prevention,
identification and treatment of excessive
blood loss after birth
Design, implementation and evaluation of
a novel simulation curriculum to target
under 5 mortality rates in Myanmar
Implementing a simplified neonatal
resuscitation protocol in a tertiary level
hospital of Nepal for improved perinatal
survival
Employing community based lay health
workers in addressing birth asphyxia
Reducing the three delays, improving
recognition, transfer and management of
women with obstetric emergencies in a
rural healthcare setting in Zimbabwe
INSPIRE-D, infant special program for inhospital resuscitation education –
delivery room
Vital signs directed therapy in emergency
and intensive care in Tanzania
Basic newborn resuscitation training for
primary health facilities in rural Burkina
Faso
National implementation of Helping
Babies Breathe in Tanzania
Reducing early neonatal mortality related
prematurity
Assessment of retention of skills and
knowledge from HBB newborn
resuscitation curriculum
Using mobile phones to support neonatal
resuscitation training in Africa
Emergency obstetrics; a randomized
controlled trial of treating obstructed
labor by symphysiotomy or caesarean
section
2013 Global Newborn Health Conference
April 14-19 in Johannesburgh, SA
The Helping Babies Survive Program;
Beta testing and evaluation of
educational validity
Support and sustain facility-based MNCH
interventions, mobilize and equip
members of professional associations to
improve the quality of high-impact MCH
interventions and mobilize newly
graduated clinicians as global health
Jeffrey Perlman
Sithembiso Velaphi
Sandra Sosa
Jphiego
Hege Langli
Ersdal/Jørgen
Linde Erland
Alemnesh Mirkuzie
Thorkild Tylleskär
Signe Egenberg
Nicole Shilkofski
KC Ashish
Karoline Myklebust
Joanna Crofts
Dana E. Niles
Tim Baker
Nicolas Meda
Georgina Msemo
Monika Gadhia
Pegeen Eslami
Sherri Bucher
Torvid Kiserud
Save the Children
Foundation
AAP
Survive and Thrive
Etiopia
Malaysia
The
Netherlands/
Kampala
Uganda
India
USA
Nepal
England
USA
Tanzania
USA
Tanzania
USA
USA
USA
Tanzania
2014
Denmark
Norway
England
USA
Norway
India
scholars
Master training course on Helping
Mothers Survive bleeding after birth
Innovations in midwifery education and
midwifery symposium II
Helping Mothers deliver, bleeding after
birth, training strategy and materials
development, Kampala September 2013
Randomized clinical trial assessing
laryngeal mask versus face-mask
ventilation in neonatal resuscitation in
Uganda
Towards improved trauma outcomes in
India, phase 1
Prevalence of acute critical neurologic
disease in children; a global
epidemiological assessment, developing
countries
Effect of quality improvement, audit and
feedback on clinical adherence of health
worker to HBB protocol and improve
intrapartum outcome in Nepal
Helping mothers survive bleeding after
birth
Helping babies breathe integrative
support
Beyond MDG 4 & 5 with safer birth,
implementing research to enhance
knowledge, training, equipment and
guidelines for safer births to improve
perinatal and maternal care and survival
Limited-resource, high-impact training
and systems change to reduce under
child mortality in Sub Saharan Africa
Criteria based audit of the management
of obstructed labor and fetal distress
among women delivered at Muhimbili
National Hospital
Achieving universal coverage in Tanzania
of skilled birth attendants, reducing
premature mortality
Catalyzing scale up of Helping Mothers
Survive, an innovative approach to
building the capacity of health workers to
prevent women from dying while giving
birth
Breastfeeding “How-to” education; critical
for achieving MDG4
Implementation of an integrated
evidenced base cost effective care bundle
aimed at reducing premature mortality in
Tanzania
The ePartogram system for improving
maternal and perinatal health: an
evaluation of its effectiveness and
feasibility to reduce adverse pregnancy
outcomes in a Tanzanian referral hospital
Improved ventilation modes of newborns
in developing countries
Regional education initiative for midwives
in Sub-Saharan Africa using game-based
learning for effective labor monitoring
Introduction of a new educational
program, a follow-up of the HBB program
Randomized clinical trial assessing
laryngeal mask (LMA) versus face-mask
ventilation in neonatal resuscitation in
Uganda
Support for stakeholders meeting,
Helping 100,000 babies survive and
thrive initiative in India, Nigeria and
Ethiopia
FIGO
UNFPA
ICM
Thorkild Tylleskär
Johan von Schreeb
Erika L. Fink
KC Ashish
FIGO & ICM
Eileen Schoen
Sakweli Anderson
Dotts, J
Mgaya, AH
Perlman, J
Jhpiego
Van Dyke, DE
Msemo, G
Maaløe, N
Thallinger, M
Lavender, T
De Graft-Johnson,
J
Tylleskär, T
Indian Academy of
Pediatrics
England
USA
Helping Mothers survive bleeding after
birth
Understanding barriers to practicing
kangaroo mother care in India
FIGO & ICM
Liebman, R