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Piloting evidence based newborn care practices using VHT structures to inform postnatal care strategy development in the Rwenzori region, for Baylor Uganda. Michael Owor Odoi Mak-CDC fellow MPH (ULB), MBChB (MUST) Academic mentor-Dr. Peter Waiswa Roving mentor(s) Dr.Neorine Kaleeba Host mentor(s)-Dr. Dan Murokora, Mr. Isaac Sebuliba, Dr. Asiimwe Alice 1 Year1 Dissemination Workshop; Golf course hotel:11/02/2014

Lay out • Career goal • Host Institution description • Terms of Reference (TOR) and progress • Pending activities • Progress on Abstracts, Manuscript and Programmatic activity  Challenges and Innovations • Trainings undertaken • Acknowledgements 2

Career Goal MaternalChild and Newborn Health (MCNH) Epidemiologist. 3

Host institution description Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Uganda  NGO providing child-focused:- • Family-centered HIV/AIDS prevention, • Care and treatment services, • Health professional training and Clinical research • Saving Mothers Giving through SMGL life project, in the Rwenzori region . 4

Terms of Reference • Take lead in developing a PNC improvement strategy • Pilot PNC components of SMGL (newborn care practices) • Provide technical assistance in prospective surveillance (of mini censuses, maternal deaths, newborn deaths and censuses) • Provide technical assistance in the capacity building and training (of Health workers and VHT’s) • Write and publish abstracts and manuscripts • Other activities (resource mobilization) 5

Take lead in developing a PNC improvement strategy Pending Achievements • Clearance of strategy from technical • Informal discussions with DHT’s committee at Baylor-Uganda. (Kabarole, Kamwenge, Kyenjojo) • Draft PNC strategy (shared with • Rapid assessment to further guide strategy Tech-Baylor Uganda, a waiting development revision and clearance) • Further consultations with DHT’s, regarding strategy components • Sharing the strategy with MOH • Refining the strategy to incorporate stake holder views 6

Pilot postnatal Care components of SMG L Pending Achievements • Submission to IRB-target is this Friday. • Implementation of Approved proposal • Draft proposal is under review • Pretesting Questionnaires for submission. • Baseline data collection and reporting • End line data collection and report writing 7

Technical support in prospective surveillance activities Achievements Pending • Newborn death Census and verbal • Health Facility assessment autopsies • Data collection:  of women of reproductive age group mini census,  maternal deaths (including verbal Autopsies). 8

Field technical assistance in prospective surveillance • Capacity building of VHT’s in data collection • Health facility capacity building (record use, Field support completeness of registers ,infection control practices) supervision and capacity building of Planning meeting prior to capacity VHT’s, data building and data collection exercise, collection for WRA in Rwenzori regional office in Nyabbani sub county, Kamwenge District Inset; VHT’s having technical support from the fellow. 9

Resource mobilization Achievements  Contributed to two grant proposal: one was up to concept level and the second is in pipeline (Enhancing the Pending Newborn component of SMGL ) Sharing the draft concept for the new  Particularly shared technical ideas at RFP with the RFP response team concept inception stages  New RFP has been shared with me and am already drafting a concept to share with the RFP response team 10

News paper publications ,abstracts , Manuscripts One news paper article published out of five submitted. One abstract submitted to International AIDS conference (Melbourne) 11

Manuscripts Achievements Challenges: • Two draft manuscripts put on  Accessed data for abstracts and hold due to Data access rights. manuscripts from academic mentor  Currently in analysis stages of acquired data.  Already submitted one abstract to IAS Steps taken towards the challenges conference in Melbourne . 12

Trainings undertaken • Policy brief writing (Uganda) • Health Technology Assessment (HTA)- Sheffield University (UK) • Fundamentals of Clinical Trials – Harvard University (USA) 13

Acknowledgements • Host institution mentors for the continuous support in the wake od insurmountable challenges • Academic mentor • Roving mentor (Dr.Neorine) • Staff of the fellowship program • Fellow – fellows • Family and Friends at Baylor Uganda (Mr. Albert Maganda) 14

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