Dr Hauwa Mohammed works as a public health physician in Nigeria. She is the country director for the projects of the Emergency Obstetrics and Quality of Care unit of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in Nigeria. She oversees several development projects aimed to improve the quality of care provided to mothers and newborns. In her job as country director, she has worked on several projects for the past decade with support from government and other stake holders, to implement programmes that aim to strengthen health systems and support skilled health personnel in public and private establishments in Nigeria. She has been involved in Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care trainings (EmONC), Antenatal Postnatal Care training (ANC, PNC), Quality Improvement training, Maternal and Perinatal Death Audit, as well as Standards Based Audits (StBA) trainings. With the support of ministries of health and management of health facilities, she has assisted health workers to introduce MPDSR and StBA in health systems. Hauwa has is currently involved in operational research on several projects run by LSTM in Nigeria and Kenya.
Prior to working for LSTM, Hauwa worked for over 10 years as a clinician in obstetrics and gynaecology, taking care of pregnant mothers and their babies through managing pregnancy and delivery. In her education she is a consultant OBGYN with fellowship of the west African college of surgeons. She also has a master’s degree in international public health, she evaluated of the maternal death review system in Kenya for her dissertation. This sparked her interest in Quality-of-care processes.
She has passion for improving maternal and newborn health indices especially in LMICs through increasing and improving skilled attendance at birth. She is currently undergoing a PHD programme in Global health and is working on the research “Improving the effectiveness of Skilled health personnel in Nigeria”.