We asked Lucia D’Ambruoso, Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Development, University of Aberdeen and co-author of this recent publication, to tell us about using participatory approaches to strengthen mortality surveillance and reporting systems. The process addresses deaths of children under five years of age, which includes newborn deaths. The approaches can be applied to surveillance of perinatal mortality. Continue reading
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Seminar 2: Applying maternal death surveillance and response in crisis settings
Watch the live recording of the seminar here!
Read our blog on the event, Using Data to Prevent Maternal Deaths in Crisis Settings.
Event information
Date and Time: Thursday 23rd March 2017, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm, followed by refreshments
Location: John Snow Lecture Theatre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
Overview:
Mothers and their babies face greater risks to their survival during humanitarian crises. However, there is a dearth of evidence about how best to apply reproductive health interventions effectively in crisis settings. Understanding why women and their babies die in these specific circumstances is pivotal to designing appropriate interventions to prevent deaths from similar causes.
This seminar will explore tools and approaches to maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR) in crisis settings with presentations on the following:
- Value of MDSR data and systems in crisis settings, and in contributing to achieving sexual and reproductive health rights
- Approaches to measuring maternal mortality in refugee settings and responding to findings
- Participatory ethnographic evaluation research (PEER) as a tool to triangulate MDSR findings in crisis settings
Speakers:
- Rajat Khosla, Human Rights Adviser – Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, World Health Organization, Geneva
- Nadine Cornier, Humanitarian Adviser – Reproductive Health & Head of Office, UNFPA, Turkey
- Eleanor Brown, Technical Specialist – Options, London
Moderator: Sarah Moxon, Research Fellow, the March Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health, LSHTM
This event is a collaboration between the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, the Global MDSR Action Network and the MARCH Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health
Admission and registration: It is free to attend this seminar, but registration is required. Registration is now closed.
To learn more about the seminar series, Innovations in Maternal and Perinatal Health in Humanitarian Settings: Exploring Evidence and Innovations to Improve Maternal and Newborn Survival among Populations Affected by Humanitarian Crises, click here.
Email: mdsr@evidence4action.net
Twitter: @E4AMamaYeAfrica #MDSR
The live stream recording is available here.
Watch this space for additional recordings of the event and access to supplementary materials.
Read more about the seminar series here.
Find out more about the first seminar of the series: Innovations to improve maternal and newborn death surveillance to respond to future Ebola outbreaks here.
How legal and policy frameworks support MDSR in Jamaica
Professor Affette McCaw-Binns, a Reproductive Health Epidemiologist at the University of the West Indies (Mona) and Dr Simone Spence, Director of Family Health Services at the Ministry of Health in Jamaica explain how legislation and policy strengthened the reporting of maternal deaths in Jamaica. This case study describes how the policy framework was amended to improve the reporting of maternal deaths and how other interventions implemented simultaneously together strengthen the maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR) system. Continue reading