Maternal and Child Health Unit

Mission:

To promote the health and wellbeing of the mother and child, as well as prevent morbidity and mortality in partnership with local, national and internal stakeholders.

Description:

The unit partners with the Centre of Excellence in Population Health and Policy (ACEPHAP), Bayero University, Kano on grants from the World Bank to create innovative technology for use by pregnant and post-partum mothers in order to reduce maternal-foetal adverse events via educational videos and linkage to a health facility closest to them for delivery. With grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we are partnering with the same organization in piloting a community-based intervention trial to assess the feasibility of prophylactic therapeutics in reducing adverse maternal outcomes. We also collaborate with the UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme for Research , to train physicians and public health MCH professionals in the use of data for decision-making in all federal health facilities in Nigeria.