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IDEAS Summer Seminar SeriesMore than seven years later, the team is building on the wealth of data, results, partnerships and learning created in the current second phase of IDEAS. A series of six seminars held in the summer of 2018 presented methods and results of IDEAS Phase 1 looking at the following six areas of research: Understanding the...
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Newborn resuscitation in Gombe State, northeastern NigeriaThis paper published by Josephine Exley, Nasir Umar, Sarah Moxon, Adamu Umar Usman and Tanya Marchant from the IDEAS project, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Data Research and Mapping Consult in the Journal of Global Health took a closer look at data for more than 17,000 births that took place in...
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A successful project – or just good timing? Measuring interventions and their impact on health outcomesAttributing changes in health outcomes to specific interventions or projects is tricky. Oftentimes coincidental factors, such as the construction of a new highway linking communities to a health facility, could have improved the communities’ health indicators just as much, as a project employing newly trained health...
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IDEAS at #HSR2018New evidence presented as posters (above) included: Sustainability for a Village Health Worker scheme in Nigeria Availability of routine facility data for maternal and newborn health Community based newborn care in Ethiopia Advancing Health Systems for all in the SDG Era was the overall theme of the fifth HSR...
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Newborn resuscitation in Gombe State, northeastern NigeriaThis paper published by Josephine Exley, Nasir Umar, Sarah Moxon, Adamu Umar Usman and Tanya Marchant from the IDEAS project, the London School of...
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Ownership in Name, But not Necessarily in ActionMelisa Martinez-Alvarez’s commentary on the IDEAS-led research on scalability and sustainability of pilot projects in three countries.
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IDEAS BrochureIDEAS Phase 2 is led by Dr Tanya Marchant and includes a team of more than 20 multi-disciplinary academic and professional support staff based...
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Early postnatal home visits: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to achieving high coverageA paper co-authored by Yared Amare, Pauline Scheelbeek and IDEAS team members Zelee Hill, Joanna Schellenberg, and Della Berhanu and published in...
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A qualitative study of the scalability and sustainability of the Village Health Worker scheme in Gombe State, NigeriaKey findings show changes that were made to the VHW scheme to increase its sustainability in the 57 wards where it is being implemented to...
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Quality over quantity?Do we need to pay more attention to the quality of health care visits over how many visits are taking place in low resource settings? Is it an...
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What motivates you? Understanding what makes health care workers motivated to provide quality care for mothers and newborns in EthiopiaWe are taking a mixed methods approach, conducting baseline and endline quantitative surveys supplemented by qualitative work halfway through the...
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10 Lessons From The BetterBirth StudyOver the last three years, the BetterBirth Program team at Ariadne Labs partnered with Population Services International, Community...
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International Day for Maternal Health and RightsBeyond human rights and ethics Rima Jolivet, Maternal Health Technical Director, Maternal Health Task Force, noted that disrespect and abuse (D&A)...