Research
The programme is supporting research concentrated in five developing countries. These are Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Nepal. It focuses on ways to improve mother and infant care at both the facility and community levels.
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Research themes
Towards 4+5 research is organised in four key themes:
- Levels and trends in maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity
- Improving maternal and newborn health services
- Working with communities to improve maternal and newborn health
- Evaluating the effectiveness of micronutrient interventions
- The role of evidence-based policymaking in maternal and newborn health
- Integration issues concerning maternal, newborn and child health
Download the Towards 4+5 poster on integrating maternal, newborn and child health services
Current projects
Consortium research projects include:
- Community-based participatory intervention to improve essential newborn care in rural Makwanpur, Nepal (A. Costello,D. Manandhar, D Osrin)
- Community-based interventions for infant health in Dhanusha, Nepal (A. Costello, D. Manandhar, D. Osrin)
- Effectiveness of facility-based audits to improve the responsiveness of West African hospitals to obstetric emergencies: a three-country randomised controlled trial (M. Borchert)
- Ethnography of policy making in maternal and neonatal health (D. Behague)
- Evaluation of the impact of TBAs in rural Bangladesh, to prevent and manage birth asphixia (A Costello, K. Azad, S. Barnett)
- Historical ethnography of safe motherhood research and policy (K. Storeng)
- Improving Essential Maternal and Newborn Care in Poor Rural Communities in Malawi (A. Costello, C. Mwansambo, P. Kazembe, D. Osrin)
- Research to determine the burden of maternal ill health and death and its programmatic implications in rural Bangladesh (C. Ronsmans, M. Koblinsky, V. Filippi)
- Consequences of obstetric complications on women's health and lives in Burkina Faso (V. Filippi, R. Ganaba, S. Murray)
- Schistosomiasis in pregnany in Burkina Faso: implications for control - pilot study (H. Diallo, S. Cousens, N. Meda)
- Systematic review of the impact of multiple micronutrient supplements during pregnancy (B. Margetts, C. Ronsmans)
- Use of community health workers to give antenatal and postnatal home visits in Ghana (A. Manu, C. Tawiah-Agyemang)