My last PhD paper is out! It's called "Indicator menus: Intentional reorientation in global maternal and neonatal health measurement". If you are interested in questions of purpose and power when it comes to international-level measurement, this one is for you: shorturl.at/dC9T8

Indicator menus: Intentional reorientation in global maternal and neonatal health measurement

There is strong impetus for internationally standardized measurement for maternal and neonatal health (MNH) to facilitate global benchmarking and acco…

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A big thank you to @lenkabenova.bsky.social, @pete-m-m.bsky.social and colleagues for organizing this great inaugural forum!

New paper in Nature Communications. We show that extreme rainfall reduces access to facility-based births across 21 sub-Saharan African countries. Climate shocks are also health access shocks. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬? 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: gh.bmj.com/content/11/3... Co-authored with @jilmolenaar.bsky.social, @lenkabenova.bsky.social , @seyeabimbola.bsky.social , @onykepe.bsky.social & @grlurton.bsky.social illustration by Namrata Narendra.

Routine health data give us a valuable but partial picture of quality of maternal and neonatal care. Our new paper in Health Policy and Planning asks: partial for whom - and why? 📄 @srhgroup-itm.bsky.social @itmantwerp.bsky.social @lenkabenova.bsky.social

Partial pictures: what routine health data can and cannot tell us about the quality of maternal and neonatal health services in Tanzania

Abstract. Measurement of contact coverage of maternal and newborn health services may overestimate the benefits of the care that is provided, because the q

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When health data go dark: the importance of the DHS Program and imagining its future We discuss; Consequences on the tracking of population health outcomes & behaviours. Implications for national decision-makers & the global health community Potential paths forward doi.org/10.1186/s129...

When health data go dark: the importance of the DHS Program and imagining its future - BMC Medicine

Background The suspension and/or termination of many programmes funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by the new US administration has severe short- and long-te...

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Inequities in #spatial access to childbirth care in Conakry, Guinea. Published in Nature Cities ► Disparities in #geographic access to facilities providing childbirth care ► Driven by skewed spatial distribution of facilities, heavy traffic & socio-economic disadvantage doi.org/10.1038/s442...

This short preprint usefully documents the disruption that trashing DHS program has caused across the world “When Health Data Go Dark: A Call to Restore DHS Program Funding” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We are raising an alarm about the effect of USAID funding cuts on essential population and health data. ssrn.com/abstract=513... @pete-m-m.bsky.social @srhgroup-itm.bsky.social @bhensen.bsky.social @jilmolenaar.bsky.social @onykepe.bsky.social @cbpolis.bsky.social @manueladr.bsky.social ocial

Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp@itmantwerp.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 What happens when vital health data disappears? The suspension of USAID funding for the DHS Program threatens global health monitoring, policymaking, and life-saving interventions. We must restore funding before this loss impacts millions. Share with your network! www.itg.be/en/health-st...

When was the last time you felt like a child in an amusement park? ✨ For us, just this Monday! Appreciating the science, patience and mad skills that it takes to raise a tsetse fly colony @itmantwerp.bsky.social Thank you to Prof Van Den Abbeele!🙏

Just published: ‘Getting the numbers right’ - on how healthcare workers navigate power & pressure when collecting MNH data in Tanzania. Ethnographic insights on the social lives of health data 🏥 tinyurl.com/3n8tcefh @srhgroup-itm.bsky.social @lenkabenova.bsky.social

Congratulations to PhD student Cathy Birabwa for this paper which took over a year to write - thoughtful, deep, contextually specific analysis of women's pathways to emergency obstetric care. www.ghspjournal.org/content/earl...

Digital data systems hold a lot of promise, but we should avoid ‘techno-utopian’ views of digital technologies as straightforward ways to fix problems in routine health information systems. Our qualitative paper 'Data for whom?' is now out in BMJ Global Health! gh.bmj.com/content/9/11...

@srhgroup-itm.bsky.social @lenkabenova.bsky.social #DigitalHealth #MaternalHealth #QualitativeResearch #HealthSystems #Tanzania

Dr Aliki Christou @alichristou.bsky.social presented at the 19th International Stillbirth Alliance Conference her FWO Vlaanderen post-doctoral research looking at the challenges with perinatal and stillbirth data availability, quality and use in health systems of Benin and Cambodia. 1/2

I haven't seen one out there yet, so I created a Sexual and Reproductive Health starter pack! Let me know who I missed that's here. Looking forward to building back community here, especially as we gear up for these next few years. go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj

Looking forward to the International Conference on Urban Health in Marrakesh (18-21/11/24) ◾I will present ongoing work where we monitor hourly temperature in >30 locations in Lubumbashi city ◾This includes measurement in delivery rooms & within the compound of health facilities www.icuh2024.org

"This #map represents what I know": the power of putting Lubumbashi’s #maternal healthcare services on the map "Keeping the maps accurate therefore requires a continuous effort, which is unlikely to happen without local ownership." www.itg.be/fr/histoires... www.itg.be/en/health-st...

Mapping Lubumbashi’s maternal healthcare services

Recently, health system managers & stakeholders provided input on preliminary maps of maternal & newborn healthcare facilities in Lubumbashi

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Pressure to meet targets to improve health outcomes for women and their babies can have unintended negative consequences. In this blog post, published on Harvard’s Maternal Health Taskforce website, I explain why. www.mhtf.org/2024/11/07/m...

Meeting the target but missing the point: The politics of childbirth data

Pressure to meet targets to improve health outcomes for women and their babies can have unintended negative consequences. Rose, one of two nurse-midwives on duty in a hospital labour ward in Southe…

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