Projects

Couples-based intervention for perinatal depression

This project seeks to adapt the person-centered prenatal care scale to make it relevant to LMICs and to conduct the first validation study in Ghana.

The Advancements in Postpartum Hemorrhage Care Project is intended to inform the design and implementation of more effective strategies and interventions to advance PPH prevention and treatment in Malawi and Madagascar.  

Exploring maternal and neonatal biomarkers of neurodevelopmental risk.

Addressing provider stress and unconscious bias to improve the quality of maternal health care.

This project tests the effectiveness of the CPIPE intervention, an innovative theory and evidence-based intervention that addresses key drivers of poor person-centered maternity care.

Improving early identification of children at risk for neurodevelopmental impairment or disability in Zimbabwe.

A project to develop an evidence-based investment case for national scale-up of small and sick newborn care inclusive of early kangaroo mother care in Uganda.

This study aims to understand how social networks and social media impact behaviors around vaccination among Native American and Indigenous individuals from Mesoamerica living in California and design an intervention to increase uptake in these populations.

This project seeks to develop a person-centered postnatal care (PCPNC) scale to complete the full suite of scales for measuring person-centered care across the lifespan.

A clinical effectiveness and acceptability trial of two models of an insertable vaginal cup to manage fistula urinary incontinence.

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to measure the impact of a mhealth social support and information group for postpartum women on postpartum depression, breastfeeding and postpartum family planning uptake across three sites in India.

This project evaluates the impact of EMBRACE, an innovative perinatal care program for Black families uniquely designed to address racial inequities in perinatal outcomes.

To examine the feasibility and acceptability of engaging mentor mothers in rapid viral load result delivery and counseling for pregnant and postpartum women with HIV.

Implementation research to evaluate the introduction of 600 point of care ultrasound devices for obstetric imaging by primarily midwives across eight counties in Kenya

NIH-funded study evaluating etiology and outcomes of severe febrile illness in children in Tanzania.

To characterize the multidimensional nature of mobility among pregnant and postpartum women with HIV in western Kenya and to understand associations with viral suppression.

Global PARITY is an international point prevalence study designed to measure the prevalence of pediatric acute critical illness in resource-constrained settings.