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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 Year1 Dissemination Workshop; Golf course hotel:11/02/2014

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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

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Career Goal

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MaternalChild and Newborn Health (MCNH) Epidemiologist.

Host institution description

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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.

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)

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Take lead in developing a PNC improvement strategy

Achievements

• Informal discussions with DHT’s

(Kabarole, Kamwenge, Kyenjojo)

• Draft PNC strategy (shared with

Tech-Baylor Uganda, a waiting revision and clearance)

Pending

• Clearance of strategy from technical

committee at Baylor-Uganda.

• Rapid assessment to further guide strategy

development

• Further consultations with DHT’s, regarding

strategy components

• Sharing the strategy with MOH
• Refining the strategy to incorporate stake

holder views

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Pilot postnatal Care components of SMGL

Achievements

• Draft proposal is under review

for submission.

Pending

• Submission to IRB-target is this Friday.
• Implementation of Approved proposal
• Pretesting Questionnaires
• Baseline data collection and reporting
• End line data collection and report

writing

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Technical support in prospective surveillance activities

Achievements

• Health Facility assessment
• Data collection:
• of women of reproductive age

group mini census,

• maternal deaths (including verbal

Autopsies).

Pending

• Newborn death Census and verbal

autopsies

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Field technical assistance in prospective surveillance

• Capacity building of VHT’s in data collection
• Health facility capacity building (record use,

completeness of registers ,infection control practices)

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Planning meeting prior to capacity building and data collection exercise, in Rwenzori regional office Field support supervision and capacity building of VHT’s, data collection for WRA in Nyabbani sub county, Kamwenge District Inset; VHT’s having technical support from the fellow.

Resource mobilization

Achievements

• Contributed to two grant proposal:
• ne was up to concept level and the

second is in pipeline (Enhancing the Newborn component of SMGL)

• Particularly shared technical ideas at

concept inception stages

• New RFP has been shared with me

and am already drafting a concept to share with the RFP response team

Pending

Sharing the draft concept for the new RFP with the RFP response team

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News paper publications ,abstracts , Manuscripts

One news paper article published out of five submitted. One abstract submitted to International AIDS conference (Melbourne)

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Manuscripts Achievements

• Two draft manuscripts put on

hold due to Data access rights.

Challenges:

• Accessed data for abstracts and

manuscripts from academic mentor

• Currently in analysis stages of acquired

data.

• Already submitted one abstract to IAS

conference in Melbourne.

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Steps taken towards the challenges

Trainings undertaken

• Policy brief writing (Uganda)
• Health Technology Assessment (HTA)-

Sheffield University (UK)

• Fundamentals of Clinical Trials –Harvard

University (USA)

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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)

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