ALERT-Action Leveraging Evidence to reduce perinatal Mortality and Morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa is a hospital maternity-based quality improvement and implementation science project in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda-coordinated by Karolinska Institute. https://t.co/nXEL9GgyiW

Eliciting the Initial Programme Theory in a Realist Evaluation of Facility-Based Maternal Death Reviews in Benin: Methodological Process, Challenges and Lessons Learned 🔗Read it here: https://t.co/riAAGpOmw2 @ChristelleBoyi @jdossou80 @lenkabenova @BrunoMarchal

Join us on a journey to Malawi as we showcase the transformative redesign of maternity wards to enable companions to be present during labor and birth. Discover how these changes are enhancing the birthing experience and supporting families! 🔗 https://t.co/khYVcCyvNe

We are thrilled to share a digital photo gallery showcasing our stakeholder engagement efforts in Uganda as part of the ALERT project. Explore the different activities we conducted to foster impactful collaborations and community participation! 🔗 https://t.co/MyWk1BTsyc

Getting the numbers right: Power, creativity and ‘good’ routine maternal and neonatal health data in Southern Tanzania 🔗Read it here: https://t.co/c1fFyDJmU8 @JilMolenaar @andreapembe @lenkabenova

Data for whom? Experiences and perceptions of a perinatal eRegistry in two hospitals in Mtwara region, Tanzania 🔗Read full paper https://t.co/kYLgaW14Pa @JilMolenaar

Parental participation in newborn care in the view of health care providers in Uganda: a qualitative study 🔗Read full paper here: https://t.co/9zltjV5C5A @phillwdru @waiswap

@karolinskainst Prof Hussein Kidanto presenting the ALERT perinatal E-registry that contains data from over 150 000 births across 16 hospitals in Benin, Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania.

@karolinskainst Dr Effie Chipeta from Malawi explaining how the co-design process to design interventions is context related for the different settings, but that many themes were common across multiple countries e.g. pain management. #ALERTdisseminationevent

PI of ALERT Prof Claudia Hanson from @karolinskainst presenting how ALERT came about and the design of the project. Read more about the 4-component intervention of ALERT on our website https://t.co/yuiWg2RAX4

*WE ARE LIVE* Welcome to today’s event: Closing the Gap to reduce perinatal mortality- Lessons learned from the ALERT project to improve intrapartum care in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. Horneres to have the opening by director if @ITMantwerp Prof @lutlynen

***Happening now*** Prof @MamaDaktari Marleen Trmmerman is giving the key note speak opening our event at @ITMantwerp https://t.co/d4IX5RlhnV

Join us tomorrow for our event: Closing the gap to reduce perinatal mortality. 14:00 Presentations 15:30 Interactive sessions around the @ITMantwerp campus. For online participations, sign up here: https://t.co/d4IX5RlhnV

You won't regret joining this event! **Tomorrow** at the ITM Rochus campus or online. 14:00 - presentations 15:30 - interactive spaces Zoom registration https://t.co/7MILWWXNMC

See you in one week at our ALERT event at @ITMantwerp! You can still regsiter for the online session here: https://t.co/d4IX5RlhnV

**NEW PUBLICATION** We are proud to announce our latest publication in @NatureMedicine : A time-stratified, case–crossover study of heat exposure and perinatal mortality from 16 hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa https://t.co/Xhm5pGS6FW @DrKSAnnerstedt @waiswap @lenkabenova

4. As a result, we describe health information collection and processing as a complex, adaptive system influenced by various factors and interactions.

3. The current health management information system therefore relies on individual motivation and negotiation, with institutional enforcement of accountability was weakened by limited resources.

2. Health care providers, who collect primary data, were perceived as inconsistent in their performance, and most managers struggled to address this.

1. Health care managers used institutional power for clear goals like data quality assurance but relied on discretionary power for the implementation of more complex issues like digital scale-up or data use.

“Implementing a policy is something else”: Governance of complex health information systems in Tanzania. 🔗 https://t.co/vCpLQ4dKia Our research on governance aspects of the health management information system in Tanzania revealed the following: