Post-doctoral fellow Daphne McRae is currently working as an intern in the Department of Maternal, Newborn,Child and Adolescent Health at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, for July andAugust.

While there, she is providing support for planning and reporting of a meeting aimed to identify globalresearch priorities in Social, behavorial, and community interventions for maternal, newborn,and child health.

McRae will also help to develop a tool to assess the quality of program information used in WHO guidelinedevelopment. She will also provide support for the preliminary drafting of a protocol for a mega-analysis onsocial accountability, and contributing to the creation of a database cataloguing country-levelprotection measures for the working women in the informal sector.

“Aside from these specific duties, observing how the WHO operates and gaining an understanding of how partners at the global, regional, and national level (e.g. government ministries, universities or other research partners, NGOs) are involved in the work is a tremendous learning opportunity,” she said.

Welcome!

Thank you for your interest in the Mozambique-Canada Maternal Health Project. This project came to an end on June 30, 2024. You may continue to the site to see our final update and find out what we did, but please keep in mind that it is an archived site and will no longer be updated.

We now have a new project**: Sexual and Reproductive Health for Young Women in Inhambane**. We will be activating its website soon.

The new project builds on the old one, but with some changes to adapt to new realities. We will continue to seek improved, sexual, reproductive and maternal health and rights for women, now focusing more on adolescent girls and younger women, within the context of model communities of care, taking into consideration their families and their communities. We will continue to partner with community health communities (now 30 compared to 20) within selected districts in Inhambane (now 6 rather than 5). We will also continue to partner with the provincial health directorate (DPSI) to improve infrastructural and human resources in the health system. And we will continue to carry out helpful research and disseminate information.

Let us know if you would like to be notified when our new site is up!