Photos from the Accessing Safe Deliveries in Tanzania (ASDIT) Research Project Launch

December 8, 2015 Maria Wilson Leave a Comment

By: Maria Wilson

Global Health Office Outreach Assistant

Monday November 23^rd marked the Halifax launch of the five-year Accessing Safe Deliveries in Tanzania (ASDIT) global health research project. Dalhousie University researchers will collaborate with partners from the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health (TTCIH) and the Morogoro Regional Hospital in Tanzania to improve access to, and the performance of, emergency maternal care across the country.

The event was held in the newly renovated Tupper Commons. Speakers at the launch included Dean of the Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine Dr. David Anderson, Dr. John LeBlanc, who is leading the Dalhousie team and Zabron Abel of the TTCIH. You can read more about the ASDIT project, as well as Zabron’s time in Halifax, in our last blog post. For now, here are a few photographs from the research launch!

Dr. David Anderson giving opening remarks at the ASDIT launch.

Dr. John LeBlanc, Dalhousie ASDIT project lead, explaining the project outline and goals.

Zabron Abel representing the TTCIH, explaining his role within the ASDIT project (pictured with Said Msabaha of the Global Health Office and Dr. John LeBlanc).

Some of the ASDIT project launch attendees listening to Zabron Abel’s speech.

Members of the ASDIT project team (from left to right): Tanya Bilsbury, Marsha Campbell-Yeo, Doug MacMillan, Gail Tomblin Murphy, John LeBlanc, Heather Scott, Findlay Muir, Chris Wirz, Ron George, Zabron Abel, Shawna O’Hearn, Krista Mallory, Suzanne Sheffield and Chad O’Brien.

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MicroResearch Finds a Home in Ifakara

October 15, 2012 Jennifer LeBlanc Leave a Comment

Submitted by Shawna O’Hearn, Director the Global Health Office, Dalhousie University

As our team wraps up their two week session in Tanzania we offer the 3rd post in this series – photos as soon as everyone is back in Halifax.

With a packed vehicle, 6 Canadians and Majuto (our fabulous driver), we began our 8 hour journey to Ifakara which took us out of the traffic jams of Dar es Salaam, through many villages as we zoomed along a national park with elephants, zebras and giraffes lining the road, then to a dusty and bumpy road; with the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health (TTCIH) at the end of the road! To see Dr Pemba and Joyce greeting us at the end of a long journey made us feel at home.

The training program started on Monday with 40 participants from Ifakara and Mwanza. The participants from Mwanza are taking their Masters in Public Health at the Catholic University of Health & Allied Sciences. Students started by learning how to identify a research question, refine it and then explored what methodologies they could consider for their projects. The participants were divided into 6 groups; two from Mwanza and four from Ifakara. Each group had 5 to 7 participants that included a range of professional disciplines and many members had not met or worked with each other. The collaboration started with discussion of the research questions put forward by each member of the group. The research questions were based on their own experience and guided by the lecture: “How to develop a research question”. The group then vigorously discussed the merits of each question and selected one to work on as their team project. A spokesperson for each group presented the list of topics to the entire class and noted the one selected by the group and the rationale for its selection.

Some questions that the groups explored:

Why do women who go to antenatal clinics not return to the hospital for delivery?
Will the use of mobile phones improve antenatal care?
What should be done to increase male involvement in reproductive and child health clinics?
What are the factors associated with late hospital consultation of sick children?

During the second week we focused on writing reports, developing a budget, preparing an abstract and finalizing presentations which happened on Friday. Students debated, discussed, refined and finalized their questions and methodology

Presentations in front of judges to determine the top two groups as well as graduation happened on Friday.

Residents blog from Tanzania

October 6, 2011 Jennifer LeBlanc Leave a Comment

Dalhousie Residents in Tanzania

The Global Health Office would like to highlight the blog that Drs. Justine Fair and Phillip Urness are writing. Justine and Phillip are completing a global health elective at the Tanzania Training Centre for International Health (TTCIH). Here is an excerpt from their experiences:

Pediatrics: We spent last week on the pediatric ward. They have 5 different rooms each with about 12 beds. Room 1 is where the sickest kids go. Room 2- Malaria room. Room 3 – Diarrhea room. Room 4- where sick kids go when they are getting better and Room 5 – Malnutrition room. Our first two days I was convinced all the children in this entire country must have malaria as almost every child was positive. We saw a 9 month old who weighed only 9 lbs – diagnosed with HIV for the first time. We saw cerebral malaria, where the child had been unconcious for 2 days (but still not ICU material – or intubation for that matter!). Phil did a lumbar puncture on a 4 year old boy with suspected meningitis with such high pressure that once the dura was punctured the CSF came flying out, nearly hitting the wall. I was beginning to think the worst until I spent a day in Room 4 and saw that the children actually do get better as they were smiling and playing – thanks to the miracles of IV quinine and ceftriaxone!”

To read more please go to: http://medtanzania.blogspot.com/

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