📋 Tender Overview
Status - Implementation
Budget spend to date: £0 (0. 00%)
Sector groups as a percentage of project budget
Medical research: 100. 0%
Benefitting country/region: Africa, regional
The nihr global research professorship scheme is open to all professions and all higher education institutions (hei), based in england and the devolved administrations, to nominate health researchers and methodologists with an outstanding research record of clinical and applied health research and its effective translation for improved health. Global research professors are required to have existing strong collaborations or links with collaborators or partners in institutions in countries on the oecd dac list and the award should plan to strengthen these/support training and capacity development/mentorship in these partners. Vision: to improve the health of newborns and children by building equitable institutional partnerships through which global learning and innovation can flourish. The scientific gap i will address is how to improve newborn care in health facilities in low-resource settings. Every year, around two thirds of the 2. 4 million deaths occurring within the first month of life and half of the 2 million stillbirths are likely avoidable by ensuring that the most generalisable (already-well-described) clinical pathways are delivered. Over the last 7 years i have been working with: families, healthcare providers, software developers, data scientists and the ministries of health in zimbabwe, malawi and the uk, to co-develop a data driven quality improvement system for hospital-based newborn care. Neotree is a tablet-based application developed with and for nurses and doctors to give better care to newborns, especially in low-resource settings where most newborn health care is delivered by those with little or no training in newborn health. The app guides the healthcare provider through clinical history taking and examination for sick and small babies, providing educational messaging and prompts. Users input key data such as body temperature and a score measuring how alert the baby is. The app captures those and other data and then suggests the best treatment pathways. This straightforward combination of the key data, education and guidelines is incredibly powerful: not just because it can improve the result for each individual baby, but also because the data can be sent onward to local and national data stores allowing doctors and nurses to look at data for their own population and then improve the guidelines. Neotree is open source, and all data captured by the system are owned locally. As of 19/11/2021 the neotree has been used in two countries to assist the care of ~16,000 newborns by more than 350 healthcare professionals and has been shown to improve quality of care (e. G. More targeted and evidenced based prescription antibiotics). Plans and funding applications for larger scale testing to assess impact on mortality are underway (out of scope
