Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit

Professor Charles Ameh leads the Emergency Obstetric & Quality of Care Unit (EmOC&QoC) and is co-Director of the World Health Organisation Centre for Research in Maternal and Newborn Health, alongside Professor Dame Tina Lavender.

The research focus of the EmOC&QoC unit includes 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 care monitoring tools.

What we do

The Emergency Obstetric Care and Quality of Care Unit, has 3 main aims, aligned to the mission and vision of LSTM:

To identify ways to improve quality of care and reduce maternal mortality/morbidity by conducting operational research.
To optimise impact by combining rigorous research with capacity strengthening and technical support.
To ensure research is relevant to local needs and informs policy considerations by working in partnership with policy makers and local research leaders.

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.

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Partnerships

We collaborate with partners across the UK and internationally to ensure our research is high-quality and directly applicable to global health priorities.

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Where we work

Public Engagement

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.

To enhance coverage of dissemination of research findings, methods and approaches employed to improved maternal and newborn health outcomes, we have partnered with LSTM's Connecting Citizens to Science podcast and produced our first series Engaging Communities in Improving the Quality of ANC/PNC in Africa.