HIGH-Q: Learning to harness Innovation in Global Health for Quality care – By Michuki Maina Project title: A study to learn if and how the introduction of new technologies and service delivery innovations improves the quality of care provided in newborn units (NBUs) Essential technologies and service innovations could improve quality of care if successfully […]

RESPECT: Exploring the potential for learning and using parent experiences of preterm birth to improve in-patient neonatal care in Kenya – By Dorothy Oluoch Providing hospital care that responds to the needs of patients is an important part of high-quality healthcare. However, the voices and views of patients and their families in relation to how […]

The System Strategy to Optimise Neonatal Inpatient Care in Kenyan Hospitals (SONIC) This project aims to work with hospitals’ paediatricians, senior nurses and theiradministration to co-design better approaches to providing care on Newborn Units inhospitals. It will specifically focus on improving the tools doctors and nurses use to plan and guide care (eg. progress monitoring […]

New-born Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST) – By Grace Irimu & Mike English Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST) is a program that aims to reduce therate of newborn deaths in Kenya by half by 2030.Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST 360°) is a multi-country program thataims to reduce these deaths in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania […]

Saving young lives: Triage and management of sepsis in children using the point -of care Pediatric Rapid Sepsis Trigger (PRST) tool PRST Study – By Sam Akech This study aims to develop a tool that can be used by health workers to help identify very sick children (including those with sepsis) as soon as they […]

Lessons learned from COVID-19 modeling efforts and impact on policy in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) Background and justification: There have been a multitude of modeling frameworks used in different ways and settings to advise the various pandemic response policy decisions. However, not all evidence was adequate, effectively communicated, or used by policy makers-likely resulting […]

Clinical Information Network This study helps support the use of information to: A) Improve hospital care for children and newborns in each county hospital;  B) provide information to guide policy and practice in each county and in Kenya as a whole. This work with county hospitals is intended to contribute to broader efforts to reduce […]