
Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit
About

The Emergency Obstetric & Quality of Care Unit (EmOC&QoC) combines research with capacity strengthening to improve availability and quality of maternal and newborn care and to reduce maternal mortality.

Professor Charles Ameh, Head of Department for International Public Health, leads our EmOC&QoC Unit. We are a multi-national, multi-disciplinary team with broad expertise in designing, implementing and evaluating interventions, adapting these to country- and context-specific settings and working in genuine partnership with governments, academic institutions, and donors .
He is co-Director of the World Health Organisation Centre for Research in Maternal and Newborn Health, alongside Professor Dame Tina Lavender.
> Aims and Objectives
What we do
We focus on evaluation and implementation research aimed at strengthening health systems for women and newborns. Specific areas of research include Antenatal Care (ANC) and Postnatal Care (PNC), Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC), Quality of Care (QoC) and Obstetric Clinical Monitoring Tools.
Emergency Obstetric Care (Undergraduate training, Post-graduate training, Training retention)
Quality of Care (Antenatal and Postnatal Care (ANC&PNC), Maternal Death Surveillance and Response Systems, MDSR accountability frameworks)
Obstetric Clinical Care Monitroing Tools (Early Warning Systems)
- Quality Improvement of Integrated HIV, TB and Malaria Services in ANC&PNC funded by Global Fund/Takeda
- Quality improvement for Integrated HIV, TB and Malaria services during ANC&PNC–Togo funded by Global Fund
- Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths in Kenya, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
- National scale up and evaluation of EmOC programme - Kenya
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of nursing/midwifery CPD programme - Kenya, funded by Johnson & Johnson Foundation
- Design and Evaluation of Midwifery Centre of Excellence - Nigeria, funded by Johnson & Johnson Foundation
Partnerships

We collaborate with partners across the UK and internationally to ensure our research is high-quality and directly applicable to global health priorities.
News and blogs from the Unit
Knowledge Exchange Hub
Dissemination and communication of research is an integral part of our research project to help increasing the visibility of research outputs, public engagement in science and innovation, and build confidence of society in research. Below repository covers dissemination of research findings, methods and approaches employed to improved maternal and newborn health outcomes.
Impact of our work
Togehter with our in-country partners, stakeholders and donors our aim is to improve availability and quality of maternal and newborn care as well as reduce maternal mortality by combining research with capacity strengthening.
Our partners and stakeholders have shared their lessons learnt, personal experiences, and individual change stories which demonstrate the impact of our work and suceess in achieving our goals.
The team
Contact
Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Pembroke Place, Liverpool
L3 5QA, UK
E-Mail: EmONC@lstmed.ac.uk
Twitter: @LSTM_MNHQoC