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ALERT

Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa

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ALERT Consortium meeting 2024

The annual ALERT Consoritum meeting took place March 12-15, this year in dar es Salaam, Tanzania. All partners met for three intenese days to share results and updates from our […]

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Okategoriserade

27 March, 2024

Off to new adventures! Master students embark on research journeys

This weekend, our master’s students in global public health and public health at Karolinska Institutet embarked on exciting journeys to Uganda, Benin, Malawi, and Tanzania for their thesis projects. For […]

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Masterstudents

6 February, 2024

Master students from Karolinska Institutet join ALERT for thesis project

Meet our new master students that will write their thesis projects with us. Last week they met at Karolinska Institutet to prepare for their field visits to Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania […]

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Masterstudents

22 January, 2024

Stories from Malawi: Get off to a Running Start with Run Charts

Run charts are used when trying to implement a quality improvement project by studying trends and patterns in data collected over a specific period of time. Monitoring data over time […]

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Malawi

8 January, 2024

Looking at qualitative research through the lens of my camera: How photography helped me realize my master’s thesis

I was first introduced to ALERT in one of my Master of Public Health Sciences classes at Karolinska Institutet. As someone who has always been deeply intrigued by maternal-child health, […]

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1 November, 2023

Stories from Malawi: When building walls is building trust- “We have reached a milestone for companionship”.

Although privacy and respect during maternity care is every woman’s right, overcrowding and a lack of privacy are part of childbirth for many women across the world. Therefore, a major […]

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Malawi

27 October, 2023

Stories from Malawi: When a mother and her healthy baby thank me, I feel on top of the world!

The sun has just set, and it is about to get dark when I sit at home by the kitchen table with my laptop and I hear a hello. Midwife […]

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Malawi

17 October, 2023

Congratulations to Regine Unkles on successfully defending her PhD dissertation

On October 6th, Regine Unkels succesfully defended her thesis On people, data and systems – Perspectives on routine health data processing and its digitalization in Tanzania. After a 3,5 hour […]

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10 October, 2023

Soha El Halabi’s halftime review at Karolinska Institutet

Soha El Halabi is a PhD student in the ALERT project at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Yesterday she had a successful halftime review where she presented her PhD project, what she […]

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