by cisadmin | Dec 8, 2023 | CIS Works, News
The antenatal corticosteroid (ACS) implementation research project at the Center for Implementation Sciences in Health – CIS in collaboration with the ministry of health and Ethiopian society of OBGYN provided a 10-day hands on training in Batu for 15 midlevel...
by cisadmin | Dec 1, 2023 | CIS Works, News
The Center for Implementation Sciences (CIS) in Health at Addis Ababa University was delighted to welcome Laerdal Tore on 27 Nov 2023. In the morning the Saving Little Lives (SLL) university partners (Addis Ababa, Hawassa, Mekelle, and Emory Universities) shared with...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | slide
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 partners to narrow the...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | slide
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...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | CIS Works
Ethiopia is ranked eighth among the top ten countries with the highest burden of preterm birth worldwide, with an estimated 376,730 preterm births annually. The prevalence of low birth weight (LBW) is estimated to be 13%. In Ethiopia, the advanced medical and feeding...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | CIS Works
Every year worldwide, approximately 32 million newborns are born small for their gestational age, and 15 million are born prematurely, contributing to 80% of neonatal deaths. The effectiveness of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in reducing mortality rates among preterm...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | CIS Works
Complications related to preterm birth are the leading cause of neonatal death worldwide. A significant majority, over 80%, of these preterm births occur in sub-Saharan African and Asian countries. Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are known to decrease mortality and...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | CIS Works
Saving Little Lives Ethiopia, with an estimated 97,000 neonatal deaths annually and a neonatal mortality rate of 33 per 1,000 live births, is considered one of the most dangerous places for newborns. Around the globe, neonates with preterm and low-birth weight...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | Partners
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, statistical analysis plan, and simulation codes for...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | Partners
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 space PATH supports...
