A PhD is part of this collection if it meets, the recently defined, following criteria:
- The PhD topic meets the objectives of the ISM&RH and is about Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health, mainly researched in low middle income settings.
- The Phd contains a page that refers to the Safe Motherhood series.
- The term “safe Motherhood Series” is named on the cover.
- The minimum of one member of the ISM&RH is involved in the project as promotor or co-writer (co promotor).
- The Phd book will be published on this website.
- The PhD candidate will present the PhD outcomes at one of the ISM&RH meetings (regular 2 months meeting, symposium or congres).
The Safe Motherhood Series
Anouk Verschuuren
Maternity care for refugees and asylum seekers in the Netherlands
University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands, 10 Jan 2024
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Lisa Calhoun
Contraceptive use and method choice among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: Are we meeting their reproductive health needs?
VU University Amsterdam, 5 Feb 2024
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Gebi Husein Jima
Promoting contraceptive uptake to reduce the unmet need for family planning during the postpartum period in Ethiopia
University Medical Centre Groningen,
the Netherlands, 26 Feb 2024
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Athanasios Kallianidis
Maternal morbidity and mortality in the Netherlands and their association with obstetric interventions
Leiden UMC, 16 Mar 2023
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Steffie Heemelaar
Maternal health in Namibia: Lessons learned from obstetric surveillance
Leiden UMC, 14 Apr 2023
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Anke Heitkamp
Maternal deaths, near misses and great saves: severe maternal outcomes in Metro East, the Western Cape Province, South Africa
Stellenbosch University, Cape
Town, South Africa/VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14 Apr 2023
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Paul Ramler
Postpartum Hemorrhage: From Insight to Action
Leiden UMC, 20 Sep 2022
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Titus Kofi Beyuo
Optimizing care and patient experience of preeclampsia in low- and and middle-income
countries – the case of Ghana
UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands, 13 Dec 2022
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Carrie J. Ngongo
Epidemiology and etiology of genital fistulas in East Africa
Ghent University, Belgium, 10 Feb 2023
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Susan Ontiri
Improving Access to Quality Family Planning Services in Kenya by Addressing Contraceptive Discontinuation
UMCG
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Yadira Roggeveen
Participation and transdisciplenary collaboration and tools towards increasing skilled birth attendence
Amsterdam UMC, VU, May 2021
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Kim Verschueren
Maternal mortality, near-miss and stillbirths in Suriname
UMC Utrecht, Dec 2020
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Natasha Housseine
Strategies to improve the quality of foetal monitoring and intrapartum care in high-volume, low-resource maternity units
Abstract
UMC Utrecht, Dec 2020
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Rob Mooij
Safe Motherhood: Improving quality of maternal and perinatal care in rural Tanzania
UMCG, Sept 2020
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Nasrathulla Ansari
Quality of maternal and newborn health care in health facilities in Afghanistan
Abstract
UMCG, 2019
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Felix Sayinzoga
Health system determinants of maternal and neonatal health in Rwanda
Abstract
Radboud UMC, 2019
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Barbara Nolens
Reintroduction of vacuum extraction in a tertiary hospital in Uganda.
Abstract
VUMC, 2019
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Ada Gillessen
Towards better prognostic and diagnostic strategies for major obstetric haemorrhage.
Abstract
LUMC, 2019
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Richard Kalisa
Hospital-based audit of obstetric care and birth preparedness in rural Rwanda.
Abstract
VUMC, 2019
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Ibukun-Oluwa O. Abejirinde
Diagnostic and clinical decision support systems for antenatal
care: is mHealth the future in low-resource settings?
Abstract
VUMC, 2018
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Dunstan Raphael Bishanga
Improving access to quality maternal and newborn care in low-resource settings: the case of Tanzania
Abstract
UMCG, 2019
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Tienke Vermeiden
Maternity waiting homes in Ethiopia to improve women’s access maternity care
Abstract
UMCG, 2019
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Abera Kenay Tura
Severe maternal morbidity an mortality in eastern Ethiopia.
Abstract
UMCG, 2019
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Nanna Maaloe
Assisting birth attendants in providing acceptable care under unacceptable clinical realities: the Partoma intervention study at Zanzibar’s tertiary hospital.
Abstract
University of Copenhagen, 2019
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Sharon J.N. Kibwana
Increasing access to anaesthaesia in Ethiopia: task shifting.
Abstract
VUMC, 2017
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Firew Ayalew Desta
Improving frontline health workers’ performance in low resouurce settings; the case of Ethiopia.
Abstract
VUMC, 2017
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Tegbar Yigzae Sindekie
Identifying needs for optimizing the health work force in Ethiopia.
Abstract
VUMC, 2017
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Marielle Bemelmans
Getting the job done, providing lifelong HIV treatment in settings with limited human resources for health: innovative approaches.
Abstract
VUMC, 2016
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Tom Witteveen
Severe Acute Maternal Morbidity, risk factors in the Netherlands and validation of the WHO Maternal Near Miss tool.
Leiden University, 2016
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Cora Bakker
Terugvinden van waardigehid, communit based sociotherapie in Rwanda, Oost Congo en Liberia.
Abstract
VUMC, 2016
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Ellen Nelissen
Improving maternal outcome in rural Tanzania using obstetric simulation based training.
VUMC, 2014
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Marrit Smit
Obstetric emergencies in primary midwifery care in the Netherlands.
Abstract
LUMC, 2014
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Jogchum Beltman
Health professionalsand maternal health in Malawi; mortality and morbidity at district level.
Abstract
VUMC, 2013
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Marcus Rijken
Malaria in pregnancy: ultrasound studies on fetal growth.
UMCU, 2012
Abstract
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Angelo Nyamtema
Leading change in the maternal health care system in Tanzania: application of operations research.
Ifakara, Tanzania, VUmc, 2012
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Thomas van den Akker
Medical Mirrors: Maternal care in Malawian district.
VUmc, 2011
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Luc van Lonkhuijzen
Delay in safe motherhood.
Groningen University, 2011
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Joke Schutte
Confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in the Netherlands 1993-2005.
VUmc, 2010
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Joost Zwart
Severe maternal morbidity in the Netherlands: the LEMMoN study.
Vumc, 2009
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Jeroen van Dillen
Obstetric audit in Namibia and the Netherlands.
Vumc, 2009
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Afisha Yakubu Zakariah
Beyond the numbers: confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in Accra-Ghana.
vrije UNiversiteit Brussel, Belgie, 2008
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Godfrey Mbaruku
Enhancing survival of mothers and their newborns in Tanzania.
Karlinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005
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Jelle Stekelenburg
Health care seeking behaviour and utilisation of health services in Kalabo District.
VUmc, 2004
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Wilbert Spaans
Vaginal birth after caesarian section in Zimbabwe and the Netherlands.
UvA, 2004
![](https://safemotherhood.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Wilbert-Spaans.jpg)
Diederike Geelhoed
Reproductive health matters in rural Ghana.
Leiden University, 2003
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Ashok Mungra
Confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in Surinam.
Leiden University, 1999
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Nico Schuitemaker
Confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in the Netherlands, 1983-1992.
Leiden University, 1998
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Douwe Verkuyl
Family planning as part of Reproductove Health, including the HIV/AIDS aspects, in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa
![](https://safemotherhood.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Douwe-Verkuyl.jpg)
Barbara Kwast
Unsafe Motherhood, a monumental challenge.
A study of maternal mortality in Addis Ababa.
![](https://safemotherhood.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Barbara-Kwast.jpg)
Jos van Roosmalen
Maternal Healthcare in the Southern Western Highlands of Tanzania
![](https://safemotherhood.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Jos-van-Roosmalen.jpg)
Gijs Walraven
Perinatal assessment in rural Tanzania.
Nijmegen University, 1995
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Akosua de Groot
The role of oral (methyl)ergometrine in prevention of post partum heamorrhage.
Nijmegen University, 1995
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