Makerere University Centre of Excellence for Newborn Health Research

The Makerere University Centre of Excellence for Newborn Health Research (CMNHR) was established in 2013 to serve as a one stop centre for information, research and capacity building. The centre operates as a knowledge management arm for the national newborn steering committee to the meet the desire of increasing access and availability of reliable knowledge and information to stimulate action and service delivery.

Location

Kampala

Uganda

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Muhammad Asaduzzaman, HIFA Country Representative Bangladesh, publishes blog about HIFA on ICDDR,B website

20 May, 2017

Read the blog on the ICDDR,B website: Healthcare information for all to lower death and suffering

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Community Health Workers feel unrecognised and undervalued

19 May, 2017

Community Health Workers feel unrecognised and undervalued by community leaders and health professionals. This was the central message from a major thematic discussion held on the HIFA forums and sponsored by The Lancet, Reachout Project/Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, World Vision International and USAID Assist Project.

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Understanding Implementation Research for Global Health: insights from a HIFA online discussion

15 May, 2017

Author: Soumyadeep Bhaumik is a member of the Working Group on Evidence-Informed Policy & Practice, Healthcare Information for All. He is a medical doctor working in the field of evidence syntheses and program evaluation in India. Twitter : @DrSoumyadeepB

Access to Health Research: Priorities for advocacy and action

14 May, 2017

During 2015 and 2016 the HIFA Project on Access to Health Research supported a series of thematic discussions on the HIFA forums on a wide range of questions.

The project working group has now reviewed the outputs of these discussions with a view to taking forward specific issues through advocacy and action.

The following seven issues are highlighted for your comments and suggestions on ways forward:

1. "Most research is wasted because it is never published"

Technical problem with HIFA Daily Digests

13 May, 2017

Thank you to HIFA members who report they are not receiving Daily digests on HIFA. Our technical lead is investigating and we hope to have this resolved within 48 hours. Distribution of individual HIFA messages is not affected.

To change email notification preferences, log in to HIFA Dgroups platform click on the profile menu and open Preferences dialog, and then click on Edit preferences for this community only link on the bottom of the dialog.

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