Research & Publications

Duration of third stage labour and postpartum blood loss: a secondary analysis of the WHO CHAMPION trial data

Journal: Reproductive Health
Year: 2021

The FAST‐M complex intervention for the detection and management of maternal sepsis in low‐resource settings: a multi‐site evaluation

Journal: Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Year: 2021

The role of digital clinical decision support tool in improving quality of intrapartum and postpartum care: experiences from two states of India

Journal: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth volume
Year: 2021

Cost of hospital care of women with postpartum haemorrhage in India, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda: a financial case for improved prevention

Journal: Reproductive Health
Year: 2021

Cultural beliefs and health-seeking practices: Rural Zambians' views on maternal-newborn care

Journal: Midwifery
Year: 2020

Maternal knowledge of essential newborn care in rural Zambia

Journal: Health Care for Women International
Year: 2020

Frequency and management of maternal infection in health facilities in 52 countries (GLOSS): A 1-week inception cohort study

Journal: The Lancet Global Health
Year: 2020

Early evaluation of the ‘STOP SEPSIS!’ WHO Global Maternal Sepsis Awareness Campaign implemented for healthcare providers in 46 low, middle and high-income countries

Journal: BMJ Open
Year: 2020

What the percentage of births in facilities does not measure: Readiness for emergency obstetric care and referral in Senegal

Journal: BMJ Global Health
Year: 2020

Determinants of technology use for a mobile health intervention across public health facilities in rural India: Protocol for implementation research

Journal: Gates Open Research
Year: 2020

Private sector delivery of quality care for maternal, newborn and child health in lowincome and middle-income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review protocol

Journal: BMJ Open
Year: 2020

Reduction in racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity from hemorrhage in a large-scale quality improvement collaborative

Journal: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Year: 2020

User patterns of the Safe Delivery App: Explorations from a cluster randomized controlled trial in Ethiopia

Journal: Journal of Health Informatics in Developing Countries
Year: 2020

Childbirth care in Egypt: A repeat cross-sectional analysis using Demographic and Health Surveys between 1995 and 2014 examining use of care, provider mix and immediate postpartum care content

Journal: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Year: 2020

Designing quality improvement collaboratives for dissemination: Lessons from a multiple case study of the implementation of obstetric emergency safety bundles

Journal: Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Year: 2020

Maternal characteristics and causes associated with refractory postpartum haemorrhage after vaginal birth: A secondary analysis of the WHO CHAMPION trial data

Journal: International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Year: 2020

Study protocol for Post Pregnancy Family Planning Choices, an operations research study examining the effectiveness of interventions in the public and private sectors in Indonesia and Kenya

Journal: Gates Open Research
Year: 2020

Safe Start Community Health Worker Program: A multisector partnership to improve perinatal outcomes among low-income pregnant women with chronic health conditions

Journal: American Journal of Public Health
Year: 2020

Evaluating implementation effectiveness and sustainability of a maternity waiting homes intervention to improve access to safe delivery in rural Zambia: A mixed-methods protocol

Journal: BMC Health Services Research
Year: 2020

Evaluation of Senegal supply chain intervention on contraceptive stockouts using routine stock data

Journal: PLOS One
Year: 2020

Building financial management capacity for community ownership of development initiatives in rural Zambia

Journal: The International Journal of Health Planning and Management
Year: 2020

Using open public meetings and elections to promote inward transparency and accountability: Lessons from Zambia

Journal: International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Year: 2020

Development Impact Bonds for Maternal and Child Health

Journal: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Year: 2020

Saving Mothers, Giving Life: A Systems Approach to Reducing Maternal and Perinatal Deaths in Uganda and Zambia

Journal: Global Health: Science and Practice
Year: 2019

Maternity Waiting Home Use by HIV-positive Pregnant Women in Zambia: Opportunity for Improved Prevention of Maternal to Child Transmission of HIV

Journal: International Journal of MCH and AIDS
Year: 2019

Household saving during pregnancy and facility delivery in Zambia: a cross-sectional study

Journal: Health Policy and Planning
Year: 2019

“What is the best method of family planning for me?”: a text mining analysis of messages between users and agents of a digital health service in Kenya

Journal: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

How a woman's interpersonal relationships can delay care-seeking and access during the maternity period in rural Zambia: An intersection of the Social Ecological Model with the Three Delays Framework

Journal: Social Science & Medicine
Year: 2019

An investigation into mistreatment of women during labour and childbirth in maternity care facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India: A mixed methods study.

Journal: Reproductive Health
Year: 2019

Bundles for maternal safety: Promises and challenges of bundle implementation: The case of obstetric hemorrhage

Journal: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Year: 2019

Provision of postpartum care to women giving birth in health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional study using Demographic and Health Survey data from 33 countries

Journal: PLOS Medicine
Year: 2019

Is childbirth location associated with higher rates of favourable early breastfeeding practices in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Journal: Journal of Global Health
Year: 2019

Technology-based newborn health learning initiatives for facility-based nurses and midwives in low-and middle-income countries: A scoping review

Journal: International Journal of Childbirth
Year: 2019

Putting the “M” back in maternal-fetal medicine: A 5-year report card on a collaborative effort to address maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States

Journal: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Year: 2019

Alternative magnesium sulfate dosing regimens for women with preeclampsia: A population pharmacokinetic exposure-response modeling and simulation study

Journal: The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
Year: 2019

Population pharmacokinetic modeling to evaluate standard magnesium sulfate treatments and alternative dosing regimens for women with preeclampsia.

Journal: The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
Year: 2019

Implementing obstetric venous thromboembolism protocols on a statewide basis: Results from New York State’s Safe Motherhood Initiative

Journal: American Journal of Perinatology
Year: 2019

Leveraging resources for obstetric venous thromboembolism prevention in a state safety collaborative

Journal: Seminars in Perinatology
Year: 2019

Investigating the nature of competition facing private healthcare facilities: The case of maternity care in Uttar Pradesh, India

Journal: Health Policy and Planning
Year: 2019

The New York State Safe Motherhood Initiative: Early impact of obstetric hemorrhage bundle implementation

Journal: American Journal of Perinatology
Year: 2019

National policies and care provision in pregnancy and childbirth for twins in Eastern and Southern Africa: A mixed-methods multi-country study

Journal: PLOS Medicine
Year: 2019

The effects of maternity waiting homes on the health workforce and maternal health service delivery in rural Zambia: A qualitative analysis

Journal: Human Resources for Health
Year: 2019

The effect of smartphone training of Ghanaian midwives by the Safe Delivery application on the incidence of postpartum hemorrhage: A cluster randomised controlled trial

Journal: Cogent Medicine
Year: 2019

Maternity waiting homes as part of a comprehensive approach to maternal and newborn care: A cross-sectional survey

Journal: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Year: 2019

Maternity waiting homes as an intervention to increase facility delivery in rural Zambia

Journal: International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Year: 2019

Gestational weight gain and severe maternal morbidity at delivery hospitalization

Journal: Obstetrics & Gynecology
Year: 2019

Temporal and regional variations in use, equity and quality of antenatal care in Egypt: A repeat cross-sectional analysis using Demographic and Health Surveys

Journal: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Year: 2019

‘Who assisted with the delivery of (NAME)?’ Issues in estimating skilled birth attendant coverage through population-based surveys and implications for improving global tracking

Journal: BMJ Global Health
Year: 2019

Who pays and how much? A cross-sectional study of out-of-pocket payment for modern contraception in Kenya.

Journal: BMJ Open
Year: 2019

Health workers’ experiences with the Safe Delivery App in West Wollega Zone, Ethiopia: A qualitative study

Journal: Reproductive Health
Year: 2019

Quality of maternity care provided by private sector healthcare facilities in three states of India: A situational analysis

Journal: BMC Health Services Research
Year: 2019

Quality and utilization patterns of maternity waiting homes at referral facilities in rural Zambia: A mixed-methods multiple case analysis of intervention and standard of care sites

Journal: PLOS One
Year: 2019

Saving Mothers, Giving Life: It takes a system to save a mother

Journal: Global Health: Science and Practice
Year: 2019

Time trends in facility-based and private-sector childbirth care: Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 25 Sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2016

Journal: Journal of Global Health
Year: 2019

Critical insights on the demographic concept of “birth spacing”: Locating Nef in family well-being, bodies, and relationships in Senegal

Journal: Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
Year: 2019

Envisioning, evaluating and co-enacting performance in global health interventions: Ethnographic insights from Senegal

Journal: Anthropology in Action
Year: 2019

Why didn’t you write this in your diary? Or how nurses (mis) used clinic diaries to (re) claim shared reflexive spaces in Senegal

Journal: Critique of Anthropology
Year: 2019

Proposing standardised geographical indicators of physical access to emergency obstetric and newborn care in low-income and middle-income countries

Journal: BMJ Global Health
Year: 2019

The effect of report cards on the coverage of maternal and neonatal health care: A factorial, clusterrandomised controlled trial in Uttar Pradesh, India

Journal: The Lancet Global Health
Year: 2019

Sustainability and scale of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life approach in Uganda and Zambia

Journal: Global Health: Science and Practice
Year: 2019

The costs and costeffectiveness of a district-strengthening strategy to mitigate the 3 delays to quality maternal health care: Results from Uganda and Zambia

Journal: Global Health: Science and Practice
Year: 2019

Out-of-pocket expenditure for home and facility-based delivery among rural women in Zambia: A mixed-methods, cross-sectional study

Journal: International Journal of Women’s Health
Year: 2019

Changing the conversation: applying a health equity framework to maternal mortality reviews

Journal: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Year: 2019

Recommendations for the pilot expansion of Medicaid coverage for doulas in New York State

Journal: American Journal of Public Health
Year: 2019

Addressing the third delay in Saving Mothers, Giving Life districts in Uganda and Zambia: Ensuring adequate and appropriate facility-based maternal and perinatal health care

Journal: Global Health: Science and Practice
Year: 2019

Addressing the second delay in Saving Mothers, Giving Life Districts in Uganda and Zambia: Reaching appropriate maternal care in a timely manner

Journal: Global Health: Science and Practice
Year: 2019

Vital signs: Pregnancyrelated deaths, United States, 2011–2015, and strategies for prevention, 13 states, 2013–2017

Journal: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Year: 2019

Impact of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life approach on decreasing maternal and perinatal deaths in Uganda and Zambia

Journal: Global Health: Science and Practice
Year: 2019

Addressing the first delay in Saving Mothers, Giving Life districts in Uganda and Zambia: Approaches and results for increasing demand for facility delivery services

Journal: Global Health, Science and Practice
Year: 2019

Examination of a death due to cardiomyopathy by a maternal mortality review committee

Journal: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Year: 2019

Partner for Progress

Year: 2019

295: “Safe Start”: A community health worker program that improves perinatal outcomes in high risk women

Journal: American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Year: 2019

Understanding ‘missed appointments’ for pills and injectables: a mixed methods study in Senegal

Journal: BMJ Global Health
Year: 2018

Experiences with and expectations of maternity waiting homes in Luapula Province, Zambia: a mixed–methods, cross-sectional study with women, community groups and stakeholders

Journal: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Year: 2018

Developing a Digital Marketplace for Family Planning: Pilot Randomized Encouragement Trial

Journal: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Year: 2018

Characteristics of maternity waiting homes and the women who use them: Findings from a baseline cross-sectional household survey among SMGL-supported districts in Zambia

Journal: PLOS One
Year: 2018

Postpartum physical intimate partner violence among women in rural Zambia

Journal: International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Year: 2018

Factors affecting home delivery among women living in remote areas of rural Zambia: A cross-sectional, mixed-methods analysis.

Journal: International Journal of Women’s Health
Year: 2018

Listening to the community: Using formative research to strengthen maternity waiting homes in Zambia

Journal: PLOS One
Year: 2018

Why not? Understanding the spatial clustering of private facility-based delivery and financial reasons for homebirths in Nigeria

Journal: BMC Health Services Research
Year: 2018

Not just a number: Examining coverage and content of antenatal care in low-income and middle-income countries

Journal: BMJ Global Health
Year: 2018

Structure, process, and outcome data of AWHONN’s postpartum hemorrhage quality improvement project

Journal: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing
Year: 2018

mLearning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A mixed-methods feasibility and pilot cluster randomized trial using the Safe Delivery App

Journal: Global Health: Science and Practice
Year: 2018

The global maternal sepsis study and awareness campaign (GLOSS): Study protocol

Journal: Reproductive Health
Year: 2018

Perceptions of safety improvement among clinicians before and after participation in a multistate postpartum hemorrhage project

Journal: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing
Year: 2018

Development and stability of a heat‐stable formulation of carbetocin for the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage for use in low and middle‐income countries

Journal: Journal of Peptide Science
Year: 2018

Implementation and outcomes of the AWHONN postpartum hemorrhage project

Journal: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing
Year: 2018

Impact of maternity waiting homes on facility delivery among remote households in Zambia: Protocol for a quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study

Journal: BMJ Open
Year: 2018

Barriers and facilitators to implementation of a multistate collaborative to reduce maternal mortality from postpartum hemorrhage

Journal: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing
Year: 2018

Safe Motherhood Initiative: Early impact of severe hypertension in pregnancy bundle implementation

Journal: American Journal of Perinatology Reports
Year: 2018

Heat-stable carbetocin versus oxytocin to prevent hemorrhage after vaginal birth

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
Year: 2018

Bellagio declaration on high-quality health systems: From a quality moment to a quality movement

Journal: The Lancet Global Health
Year: 2018

Using three indicators to understand the parity-specific contribution of adolescent childbearing to all births

Journal: BMJ Global Health
Year: 2018

How equitable is social franchising? Case studies of three maternal healthcare franchises in Uganda and India

Journal: Health Policy and Planning
Year: 2018

Estimating the hospital delivery costs associated with severe maternal morbidity in New York City, 2008–2012

Journal: Obstetrics & Gynecology
Year: 2018

Comparing time and motion methods to study personnel time in the context of a family planning supply chain intervention in Senegal

Journal: Human Resources for Health
Year: 2018

Eliminating preventable maternal deaths in the United States: Progress made and next steps

Journal: Obstetrics & Gynecology
Year: 2018

Process evaluation of a social franchising model to improve maternal health: Evidence from a multi-methods study in Uttar Pradesh, India

Journal: Implementation Science
Year: 2018

Effect and cost-effectiveness of educating mothers about childhood DPT vaccination on immunisation uptake, knowledge, and perceptions in Uttar Pradesh, India: A randomised controlled trial

Journal: PLOS Medicine
Year: 2018

Improving Maternal Healthcare for Vulnerable Women in EU 28

Year: 2018

Evidence for Impact: 2018 Research Compendium

Year: 2018

SMGL Report

Year: 2018

European Program Report

Year: 2018

Insights from 12 States

Year: 2018

The Value Segmentation: Market Research Among Private Providers in India

Year: 2017

Quality Improved: Jhpiego

Year: 2017

Newborn outcomes and maternity waiting homes in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review

Journal: Maternal and Child Health Journal
Year: 2016

2016 Program Report

Year: 2016

Private Maternity Care – Quality Toolkit (PMC-QT)

Year: 2016

Determinants of utilisation of antenatal care and skilled birth attendant at delivery in South West Shoa Zone, Ethiopia: A cross sectional study

Journal: Reproductive Health
Year: 2015

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