Reproductive Health

Featured Article: Implementation project of NASG and m-communication to enhance maternal health care in rural Tanzania

This article on implementation of a large project in rural Tanzania by Mbaruku et al. demonstrates the feasibility of scaling-up newer technologies to reduce hemorrhage-related maternal mortality, a leading cause of maternal death.  In this project, the Nonpneumatic Antishock Garment (NASG) was implemented in 280 facilities, mainly dispensaries and primary health centers. The team rigorously monitored the use of the NASG using a mixed methods approach, this report documents new approaches to  best practices in monitoring and evaluation of implementation projects

Dr José M. Belizán

José M. Belizán, MD, PhD, a native of Argentina, is a medical doctor, with a PhD in Reproductive Health Sciences, Superior Researcher of his country's National Board of Science and Technology. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Reproductive Health.

He is the former director of the Pan American Health Organization/WHO’s Latin American Center for Perinatology in Montevideo, Uruguay and currently is a senior scientist of the Department of Mother and Child Health Research at the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is currently also Adjunct Professor of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked in many Latin American Institutions, including the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), in Guatemala and Social Security Hospitals in Mexico. He is the former Director of the Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales (CREP) and a former professor at the School of Medicine in Rosario, Argentina. He is an obstetrician and epidemiologist and has participated in numerous major perinatal trials.