Implementation and Quality (IMPAQT)
Our aim is to advance knowledge on how to develop, implement, and evaluate strategies to improve the quality of care globally. We focus largely, but not exclusively, on low-resource settings. The team is part of the research group Health Systems and Policy.
About our team
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We primarily work on ‘implementation interventions’, thus interventions that support health workers, facilities or health systems to use available resources most effectively for the benefit of improved quality of care. We recognize the complexity of improving health care quality and health systems and that strong and long-term collaborations with universities and research institutions in the global South are essential. Our research is rooted in the contextual realities and the needs of people, health providers and local managers, guided by local and national priorities.
Experience in our groups spans from epidemiology, qualitative methods, implementation science, measurement and metrics and health systems and policy research.
Collaboration and partners
- Makerere University
- Iganga/Mayuge DSS
- FIGO, International Federation of Obstetricians
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Uppsala University
- Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
- Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and College of Medicine, Malawi
- Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania
- Ifakara health institute
- Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine
- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
- Midwifery Research and Education, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
- The Aga Khan University, Tanzania
- Centre of Excellence of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University East Africa, Kenya
- Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD)
- SHIFO
- Ceped, Centre Population et Développment, Univercité Paris Descartes
- World Health Organization, Dept of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) (Switzerland)
- Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales Asociacion (Argentina)
- Khon Kaen University (Thailand)
- Centre national de recherche scientifique et technologique - Institut de Recherche en sciences de la sante (Burkina Faso)
- Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine (Vietnam)