Department:Â Health Policy, Planning and Management
PhD Topic:Â Understanding factors that influence reporting of pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes in population and health surveys
Description: Doris’ work focusses on reporting of pregnancy and pregnancy related outcomes in routinely surveyed populations. The Lancet report on every Newborn series in 2014 highlighted that about one third of 137 million births globally and nearly all neonatal deaths and stillbirths went unregistered. Yet, many countries rely on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS). This demonstrates challenges such as undercounting and incomplete data in the capture of information and reporting of pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes with the methodologies currently used in the DHS and HDSS sites. This under-reporting makes it harder to find out the causes of adverse pregnancy outcomes and how to potentially avoid them in the future and to put better interventions and policies in place. Doris hopes to unearth these factors across different contexts.
Supervisors:
- Assoc. Prof. Peter Waiswa, Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
- Prof. Christopher Orach Garimoi, Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
- Prof. Hannah Blencowe
