Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit

Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit

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Transforming Maternal and Newborn Health

About

The Emergency Obstetric & Quality of Care Unit (EmOC&QoC) combines research with capacity strengthening to improve availability and quality of maternal and newborn care and to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality.

Professor Charles Ameh leads the EmOC&QoC Unit
Professor Charles Ameh

Professor Charles Ameh, Head of Department for International Public Health, leads our EmOC&QoC Unit. We are a multi-national, multi-disciplinary team with broad expertise in designing, implementing and evaluating interventions, adapting these to country- and context-specific settings and working in genuine partnership with governments, academic institutions, and donors .

He is co-Director of the World Health Organisation Centre for Research in Maternal and Newborn Health, alongside Professor Dame Tina Lavender.

> Aims and Objectives

What we do

We focus on evaluation and implementation research aimed at strengthening health systems for women and newborns. Specific areas of research include Antenatal Care (ANC) and Postnatal Care (PNC), Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC), Quality of Care (QoC) and Obstetric Clinical Monitoring Tools.

Emergency Obstetric Care (Undergraduate training, Post-graduate training, Training retention)

Quality of Care (Antenatal and Postnatal Care (ANC&PNC), Maternal Death Surveillance and Response Systems, MDSR accountability frameworks)

Obstetric Clinical Care Monitroing Tools (Early Warning Systems)

Intervention Packages

Behind the research - Our PhD student's stories

Integrated HIV, TB and Malaria Care Supports Mothers-to-Be and Newborns in Kenya

A story from our funders and partners The Global Fund

In Kenya, HIV, TB and malaria impact millions of people every year. According to the World Health Organization, there were an estimated 5 million malaria cases in Kenya in 2022 – many of these among pregnant women and children under 5. TB is the fourth-leading cause of death among communicable, maternal and neonatal diseases, and Kenya is one of the top high-burden countries for HIV.

In just three years, the integrated care program administered by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has trained more than 1,200 health workers across Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria – reaching more than 1.3 million pregnant women and families. 

Click here to access this encouraging success story!

Current Projects

Partnerships

We collaborate with partners across the UK and internationally to ensure our research is high-quality and directly applicable to global health priorities.

Find out more

News and blogs from the Unit

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Where we work

Knowledge Exchange Hub

Dissemination and communication of research is an integral part of our research project to help increasing the visibility of research outputs, public engagement in science and innovation, and build confidence of society in research. Below repository covers dissemination of research findings, methods and approaches employed to improved maternal and newborn health outcomes.

The team

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PhD Students and Overseas Teams

Contact

Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Pembroke Place, Liverpool
L3 5QA,  UK
E-Mail: EmONC@lstmed.ac.uk
X formerly known as Twitter: @LSTM_MNHQoC(opens in a new tab)