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ALERT

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

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How might we co-design locally tailored recommendations for stillbirth care?

María del Rosario Alsina is a newly registered PhD student in the ALERT project. We compliment Rosario on introducing her doctoral project entitled “CONSOLE: CO-designed recommendatioNS fOr stiLlbirth carE – […]

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4 May, 2023

Lessons learned from assessing health facilities with a focus on maternal and child health and using systems thinking in four Sub-Saharan African countries.

How many maternal deaths does a region generate to have 100.000 live-births? The answer to that question reflects inequalities in access to quality health services. According to UN inter-agency estimates […]

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28 April, 2023

Phillip’s half-time with the ALERT team

Phillip Wanduru is a PhD student in the ALERT project. We congratulate Phillip on presenting his work to his supervisors and his PhD board during the so-called half-time review last […]

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13 April, 2023

Days for midwifery: Competency-based trainings at the CERRHUD

Over the past few weeks, the CERRHUD has effectively delivered two rounds of competency-based training (CBT) sessions with the midwives of the National Univiersity Hospital Center (CNHU), in Cotonou. The […]

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27 March, 2023

Meeting with Master and PhD students

Our recent meeting with Master and PhD students conducting their educational research in collaboration with ALERT team. Are you curious about their working topics? Find out more here!

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23 February, 2023

Meet Our ALERT Team Member :Dr. Effie Chipeta

we have interviewed Dr. Effie Chipeta from the College of Medicine, University of Malawi. Dr. Effie is the team leader of our working group 2 on Responsiveness and Professionalism which informs the […]

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2 February, 2023

Effects of COVID-19 in Africa on maternal and newborn care: lessons from ALERT hospitals

Phillip Wanduru (Karolinska Institute, Sweden and Makerere University, Uganda), Regine Unkels (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) and Lenka Benova (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium) In 2020, COVID-19 infections did not develop in […]

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6 October, 2021

Data Collection Glimpse from Co-design team

Co-design team members in the four countries were selected and trained based on a criteria-based template to secure representation of social scientists, midwives, and public health experts. Each country team […]

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28 August, 2021

Vaccine Tracker

The ALERT team vaccine tracker is an interactive map which gives an overview of when team members received their first and second COVID-19 vaccine. https://maphub.net/Rosario-Alsina82/Vacci

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