Close

Transport and referral

Join our Community of Practice

Who are we?

Welcome to the Transport & Referral for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) Community of Practice (CoP).

We're a worldwide community who share one fundamental goal:

To advance transport and referral practices for mothers, newborns, and children in low- and middle-income countries.

By joining us, you will become part of a vibrant and passionate online community. We aim to bring you monthly webinars, opportunities for exchange and technical assistance, and a platform for members to discuss latest evidence and practices with leading experts. 

Join the Transport and Referral Community of Practice now 

Pregnant woman in Chandanpur Clinic. Credit: Pieter ten Hoopen/The Lancet Maternal Health Series
Pregnant woman in Chandanpur Clinic. Credit: Pieter ten Hoopen/The Lancet Maternal Health Series

Key resources

Events

Upcoming events

 

Event recordings

17 April - Maternal and newborn deaths during transportation to and between health facilities: results from a review of Global MPDSR reports

Find out more about the event and watch the recording. 

20 March 2024 - Maternity Waiting Homes. Are they an essential part of a strategy improve access to quality maternal and newborn care  in LMIC Countries? 

Find out more about the event and watch the recording. 

21 February 2024 - Using closer-to-reality travel time data from Google to support building of more equitable health systems in the largest cities of Nigeria

Find our more about the event and watch the recording.

19 July 2023 - Addressing Emergency Referral in the EmONC Revisioning

 

Event recording →

July 2021 - Maternity Waiting Homes

 

Event recording →

Maternity waiting home slides →

Policy brief Liberia → 

Policy brief Zambia →

June 2021 - Developing networks of health facilities for improving access to EmONC

 

Event recording →

Event slides →

May 2021 - Time to update the three delays model from a women's empowerment perspective?

 

Event recording →

Event slides →

Related projects

The OnTIME Consortium

The aim of this group is to contribute to global efforts to reduce maternal mortality by generating closer-to-reality assessments of geographic access gaps to critical maternal health services.

For details of this this project including recent publications please visit the OnTIME Consortium's website.

LSHTM contact: Dr Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas

 

Want to get in contact?