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Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 The success of key interventions for maternal and newborn health depends upon the continuous availability of essential medicines and supplies at health facilities.…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: There is growing recognition of the importance of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and infection prevention and control (IPC) in healthcare institutions for…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background:  A stages-of-change model is available for evaluating facility-based kangaroo mother care (KMC) services. Implementation progress at facility- and country level…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: In the recent years, Government of India under the umbrella of National Health Mission (NHM) has introduced a number of schemes like JSY (Janani Surakshya Yojana)…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 All programs make implicit assumptions that are critical to the successful implementation of the program.  Taking a realist evaluation approach, we interrogate assumptions in…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Maternal health inequities have multiple levels of drivers: community or area level factors include community norms, social practices, area-level poverty, as well as…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Despite a huge burden, and major potential impact, stillbirth remains “one of the key neglected global priorities”, as reported by the UN’ Independent Expert…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: There is growing realization that implementation research in realistic field settings is at least as important as the rigorous randomized controlled trials…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: A quarter of the world’s neonatal deaths and 17% of maternal deaths occur in India. Few community-based interventions to improve maternal and newborn health have…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Socio-economic health inequalities are substantial in most countries. Little is known about what works to remedy this. Trials in Asia and Africa have shown a…