• Okategoriserade

Introducing the use of CPAP in ALERT hospitals in Uganda

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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 […]

22 May, 2024

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• Okategoriserade

ALERT Consortium meeting 2024

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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 […]

27 March, 2024

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• Masterstudents

Off to new adventures! Master students embark on research journeys

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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 […]

6 February, 2024

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• Masterstudents

Master students from Karolinska Institutet join ALERT for thesis project

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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 […]

22 January, 2024

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• Malawi

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

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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 […]

8 January, 2024

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• CERRHUD
• Masterstudents

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

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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, […]

1 November, 2023

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• Malawi

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

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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 […]

27 October, 2023

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• Malawi

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

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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 […]

17 October, 2023

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• Doctoral studies
• KI

Congratulations to Regine Unkles on successfully defending her PhD dissertation

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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 […]

10 October, 2023

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• Doctoral studies

Soha El Halabi’s halftime review at Karolinska Institutet

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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 […]

21 August, 2023

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• Masterstudents
• Okategoriserade

ALERT: Perspectives from a Global Health masterstudent

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My name is Alice Stockart and as a newly graduated medical doctor from Belgium, I decided to complete my formation with a master’s in global health. Last semester, I had […]

11 July, 2023

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• New research

Midwifery care providers’ childbirth and immediate newborn care competencies: a cross-sectional study in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

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Evidence-based quality care is essential for reducing sub-Saharan Africa’s high burden of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. Provision of quality care results from interaction between several components of the […]

20 June, 2023

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• KI
• Masterstudents

Bridging Theory and Practice in Global Health Education: Lessons from a Quality Improvement Project in Uganda

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by Greta Handing With dreams of expanding access to surgery in low-resource settings, I enrolled in a global health master’s program at Karolinska Institutet. My classmates and I, representing over […]

16 June, 2023

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• Doctoral studies

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

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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 – […]

4 May, 2023

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• New research

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

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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 […]

28 April, 2023

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• Doctoral studies

Phillip’s half-time with the ALERT team

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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 […]

13 April, 2023

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• CERRHUD
• Nyheter

Days for midwifery: Competency-based trainings at the CERRHUD

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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 […]

27 March, 2023

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• Doctoral studies
• Masterstudents

Meeting with Master and PhD students

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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!

23 February, 2023

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• Univ. of Malawi

Meet Our ALERT Team Member :Dr. Effie Chipeta

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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 […]

2 February, 2023

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• ITM
• KI
• Makerere
• Nyheter

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

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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 […]

6 October, 2021

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• Okategoriserade

Data Collection Glimpse from Co-design team

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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 […]

28 August, 2021

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