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...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | Partners
“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 University (implementation research...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | Partners
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...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | Partners
One of the key outcomes the center envisions to achieve creating capacity to document and disseminate key findings of the implementation research projects as well as build local capacity to through training of sufficient number of Ethiopian implementation research...
by cisadmin | Dec 26, 2022 | Partners
Laerdal Global Health, the not-for-profit sister company of Laerdal Medical is established in 2010 to work in collaboration with partners around the world to help meet the Sustainable Development Goal 3.2. by innovating and supporting healthcare providers provide...
