Glad to share our latest research on Machine Learning models to predict maternal and newborn healthcare providers’ perception of safety during the COVID-19 pandemic published with Springer Nature in HRH_Journal. Read more at rdcu.be/cT0aw

📢We are thrilled to run this course again in 2023. Applications are open until Dec 16th and scholarships are available. Please help us spread the word. @CescaCava Kerry Wong Aline Semaan Aliki Christou @BernieHensen @DHSprogram Household Survey Bot Àdúràgbèmí Banke-Thomas MARCH Centre, LSHTM

Have you booked your (virtual) seat to our annual scientific colloquium? Join the global exchange on #COVID19 to learn about how we can better control epidemics in the future, worldwide. 👉Register here colloq2022.be

Visiting the Ecole de Sante Publique (UNILU) and Provincial Ministry of Health in Lubumbashi 🇨🇩, where we are planning research to understand and address #Maternal and #newborn mortality in urban settings. This team is ready to rock! 🙏🏻 Prof Ntambue & team

"We identified multiple challenges for maternal health care during and after #COVID19 in 6 African countries. The persistent ones include reduced quality of care and lack of available resources. These will need to be tackled on a systemic level." Aline Semaan at #colloq22

Neonatal & perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a #geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery, & travel time data in #Tanzania See our new manuscript in BMJ Global Health A great collaborative/team effort dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-…

Can #MLalgorithms predict healthcare providers’ perception of workplace safety & risk during the pandemic? Using KoboToolbox & ML, this study identified factors contributing to perceptions of workplace safety among maternal & newborn healthcare providers. …an-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

🆕📢JOB ALERT! Postdoctoral research fellow vacancy Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp in the field of HIV and sexual health. Is this you? - Clinical background - PhD - Strong profile in epidemiological research methods - French - Passion for teaching itg.be/en/jobs-and-re… Deadline May 16th

We are at the AlignMNH #IMNCH conference! Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Challenges of implementing the postnatal care guidelines - stories from the field Sexual & Reproductive Health Group at ITM Antwerp #IMNHC2023

Aline Semaan from Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp sharing stories of health providers experiences of delivering postnatal care AlignMNH conference Sexual & Reproductive Health Group at ITM Antwerp

Wonderful panel and a full house again! Enjoyed moderating the session on operationalizing WHO recommendations for a positive postnatal experience anayda portela Faculty of Health Sciences at AUB American University of Beirut #IMNCH2023

Honored to bring a snapshot of #postpartum women’s and frontline #providers’ stories to the discussion, and informing how to ensure a positive postnatal experience World Health Organization (WHO) HRP AlignMNH

It's a wrap! We completed the face-to-face week in our DHS paper-writing course 2023. 13 participants are finalising analysis and paper writing. Stay tuned for their manuscripts! 🙏 to everyone for the energy, expertise and collegiality! Join us in 2024? shorturl.at/qGNO0

If you are in Antwerp, come to Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp to the exhibition Kinderen van de Zorg itg.be/nl/evenementen… Hear from five of our researchers about our work on newborn and child health and nutrition! (in Dutch)

We are proud to announce that our Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp MPH graduate Dr Ayomide Agubosim has published her Masters thesis on family planning in Nigeria as a report. You can access it here: zenodo.org/record/8393340

We were well-represented at ECTMIH2023. It was fun to bring the #ITMFamily together and reconnect with our #ITMAlumni. Sessions were hosted, posters were presented, knowledge was exchanged… Another successful day for the #GlobalHealth community. 🚀 #ECTMIH2023

🆕📢 Why is it hard to provide routine postnatal care to women according to guidelines? Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp researchers together with colleagues summarised the evidence on facilitators and barriers. 🙏 FWO and Journal of Global Health Journal of Global Health Reports jogh.org/2023/jogh-13-0…

Last week was really lovely at the #ECTIMH conference.🤩 Insightful talks, awesome speakers, and great #networking!! Lovely panel on #urban #maternalhealth with Lenka Beňová, Aline Semaan & CBirabwa! Awesome meeting co-editor for #cesarean safety, Thomas van den Akker! Amazing