Report
Informed Decisions for Actions in Maternal and Newborn Health 2010–17 Report
published 16 November 2017
by Professor Joanna Schellenberg, Dr Tanya Marchant, Dr Bilal Avan, Professor Elizabeth Allen, Emma Beaumont, Dr Della Berhanu, Dr Meenakshi Gautham, Dr Zelee Hill, , Krystyna Makowiecka, Kate Sabot, Dr Neil Spicer, Dr Nasir Umar, Shirine Voller, Suzanne Welsh and Deepthi Wickremasinghe
published 16 November 2017
Back in 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle developed a new strategy for the coming years, outlining how they might achieve their long term aim of fewer maternal and child deaths in Nigeria, Ethiopia and the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. They chose to focus on these settings for two reasons: firstly, the alarmingly high death rate among mothers and children, largely due to preventable causes, and secondly, the very high numbers of mothers and children. Uttar Pradesh, for example, has over 200 million people, making it comparable to Brazil which is the fifth largest country in the world.
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In 2010, the foundation approached the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine with a request to support the measurement, learning and evaluation of their new maternal and child health strategy. The IDEAS project
was developed to respond to this request. Since 2010, the IDEAS team have worked closely with collaborators in north-east Nigeria, Ethiopia, and India
to improve understanding of “what works, why and how” in these settings for maternal and newborn health. This report outlines their approach, giving highlights of the work. We hope you enjoy reading it.
Professor Betty Kirkwood, Professor Sir Andy Haines,
Professor Dame Anne Mills, Professor Kara Hanson
and Professor Simon Cousens
IDEAS Strategic Management Group
2010–17
IDEAS Co-Principal Investigator and Professor
IDEAS Principal Investigator and Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Professor in Medical Statistics
Research Fellow in Medical Statistics
Former IDEAS Ethiopia Country Coordinator and Research Fellow
IDEAS India Country Coordinator and Research Fellow
Senior Lecturer
IDEAS Research Assistant and DrPH student 2013-2016
Associate Professor
IDEAS Nigeria Country Coordinator and Research Fellow
IDEAS Project Manager (on secondment to KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme 2016 - 2017)
Project Manager
Research Assistant
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