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ALERT

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

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Welcome to our dissemination event September 19!

A warm welcome to our event at Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerpon September 19th! As a consortium of nine institutions, we will share lessons from the ALERT project on improving […]

Posted by Miriam Mosesson

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26 August, 2024

Congratulations to Ann-Beth Moller on obtaining her PhD!

On June 14, 2024 Ann-Beth Moller successfully defended her doctoral thesis “Midwifery care providers’ competencies in sub-Saharan Africa and global perinatal health outcomes” at Department of Public Health and Community […]

Posted by Miriam Mosesson

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16 July, 2024

Introducing the use of CPAP in ALERT hospitals in Uganda

Midwife Mary is the head of the maternity ward at hospital 2 in Uganda, a role she has had for 18 years making her a highly experienced midwife. Three years […]

Posted by kiwp

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22 May, 2024

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 […]

Posted by kiwp

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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 […]

Posted by kiwp

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 […]

Posted by kiwp

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 […]

Posted by kiwp

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, […]

Posted by kiwp

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 […]

Posted by kiwp