Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit
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About
The Emergency Obstetric & Quality of Care Unit (EmOC&QoC) combines research with capacity strengthening to improve availability and quality of maternal and newborn care and to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality.
Professor Charles Ameh, Head of Department for International Public Health, leads our EmOC&QoC Unit. We are a multi-national, multi-disciplinary team with broad expertise in designing, implementing and evaluating interventions, adapting these to country- and context-specific settings and working in genuine partnership with governments, academic institutions, and donors .
He is co-Director of the World Health Organisation Centre for Research in Maternal and Newborn Health, alongside Professor Dame Tina Lavender.
> Aims and Objectives
What we do
We focus on evaluation and implementation research aimed at strengthening health systems for women and newborns. Specific areas of research include Antenatal Care (ANC) and Postnatal Care (PNC), Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC), Quality of Care (QoC) and Obstetric Clinical Monitoring Tools.
Emergency Obstetric Care (Undergraduate training, Post-graduate training, Training retention)
Quality of Care (Antenatal and Postnatal Care (ANC&PNC), Maternal Death Surveillance and Response Systems, MDSR accountability frameworks)
Obstetric Clinical Care Monitroing Tools (Early Warning Systems)
Behind the research - Our PhD student's stories
Integrated HIV, TB and Malaria Care Supports Mothers-to-Be and Newborns in Kenya
A story from our funders and partners The Global Fund
In Kenya, HIV, TB and malaria impact millions of people every year. According to the World Health Organization, there were an estimated 5 million malaria cases in Kenya in 2022 – many of these among pregnant women and children under 5. TB is the fourth-leading cause of death among communicable, maternal and neonatal diseases, and Kenya is one of the top high-burden countries for HIV.
In just three years, the integrated care program administered by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has trained more than 1,200 health workers across Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria – reaching more than 1.3 million pregnant women and families.
Current Projects
- Advanced EmONC competency-based curriculum for resident doctors in OBGYN at the NPMC - funded by UK DHSC
- Integrated Approach in Improving Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes in Kenya - funded by UNFPA
- Quality Improvement of Integrated HIV, TB and Malaria Services in ANC&PNC funded by Global Fund/Takeda
- Quality improvement for Integrated HIV, TB and Malaria services during ANC&PNC–Togo funded by Global Fund
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of nursing/midwifery CPD programme - Kenya, funded by Johnson & Johnson Foundation
- Design and Evaluation of Midwifery Centre of Excellence - Nigeria, funded by Johnson & Johnson Foundation
- Completed Programmes
Partnerships
We collaborate with partners across the UK and internationally to ensure our research is high-quality and directly applicable to global health priorities.
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Knowledge Exchange Hub
Dissemination and communication of research is an integral part of our research project to help increasing the visibility of research outputs, public engagement in science and innovation, and build confidence of society in research. Below repository covers dissemination of research findings, methods and approaches employed to improved maternal and newborn health outcomes.
Contact
Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Pembroke Place, Liverpool
L3 5QA, UK
E-Mail: EmONC@lstmed.ac.uk
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