London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Recently, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa hit the poorest hardest. The three countries most affected by the crisis were amongst the top 11 countries in Africa with the highest maternal mortality (click here to see data).

In Sierra Leone, which holds the highest maternal mortality in the world, systems to count and investigate maternal deaths were hampered.

This seminar will explore:

• limited data availability  affecting operations in maternal and newborn health through a donor lens;
• an innovative method to quantify the indirect mortality effects of the crisis;
• changing landscape of maternal health response, including implications for maternal death surveillance and response and how will we react in the future.