The Center for Implementation Sciences (CIS) in Health is established in 2022 under the School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University. The center closely works with subnational, national, and global likeminded […]
We create capacity on implementation science, measurement, and evaluation through providing competency-based training We design, implement, and evaluate large scale multi-country, national, and sub-national implementation research projects We systematically disseminate local and global knowledge and […]
Specialized Lactation Support Implementation Research Ethiopia ranks eighth among top ten countries with highest burden of preterm birth worldwide (estimated 376,730 annual preterm births) and low birth weight (LBW) prevalence is estimated as 13%. Advanced medical […]
Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care Scale-Up Implementation Research Globally each year about 32 million newborns are born small for gestational age and 15 million are born preterm accounting for 80% of neonatal deaths. The efficacy of […]
Antenatal Corticosteroids Scale-up IR Globally, preterm birth related complications remain the leading causes of neonatal death. Over 80% of the world’s preterm births occur in sub-Saharan African and Asian countries. Although antenatal corticosteroid (ACS) is […]
Saving Little Lives With an estimated 97,000 annual neonatal deaths and a neonatal mortality rate of 33 per 1,000 live births, Ethiopia is one of the riskiest places for neonates. Globally, preterm and low-birth weight […]
We partnered with the Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to support our center in the protocol development, […]
The center partners with PATH, a global non-for-profit organization that aspires to improve health, through the implementation research on specialized lactation support for preterm or low birth weight infants. Building on its rich experience in […]
“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the main donor for most of the implementation research projects our center is running. Beyond financially supporting several projects our center is engaged in directly through Addis Ababa […]
We collaboratively work with the World Health Organization in the ideation, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of implementation research projects that the center runs. These include the two multicounty implementation research projects that both […]