A5092105238- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide
- Neonatal Health and Biochemistry
- Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Kamuzu Central Hospital
2023-2024
University of Health Science
2023-2024
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
2023-2024
Neonatal jaundice is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, neonates born in low middle-income countries bear a disproportionate burden. We previously developed low-cost, point-of-care system to measure total serum bilirubin (TSB) neonates. This device was effective at detecting monitoring jaundice; however, the disposable strips were difficult produce scale. Here, we report new lateral flow cassette design, called BiliDx, that produced scale using traditional manufacturing...
Millions of newborns die annually from preventable causes, with the highest rates occurring in Africa. Reducing neonatal mortality requires investment to scale hospital care, which includes providing hospitals appropriate technology care for small and sick newborns. Expensive medical devices designed high-resource settings often fail withstand conditions low-resource hospitals, including humidity, dust, frequent user turnover, complex maintenance, lack stable power, or difficulty sourcing...
Medical devices designed for use in low-resource settings require unique and thoughtful design considerations to facilitate successful implementation adoption. Usability testing is critical good but conducting research international locations with intended target users challenging costly. Proxy user groups have been proposed as a reasonable solution when travel impractical or wholly restricted, it was during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study explored viability of utilizing proxy group...
Neonatal sepsis-related deaths remain a significant health problem contributing to higher morbidity and mortality rates, particularly in low resource settings, such as Malawi. However, there is limited information associate risk factors system with mortality. This study investigated the associated explored among neonates sepsis at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), Blantyre, mixed-method utilised convergent parallel approach describe determinants of neonatal sepsis. We selected this...
Medical device implementation in global health requires careful considerations around usability and the use of proxy user groups. Working with appropriate users can address cost burden conducting international studies target users. This study evaluated whether are a practical substitution for testing on devices low-resource settings. Identical were conducted 18 clinicians from Blantyre, Malawi, carefully selected group 13 Houston, Texas, U.S.A., across seven newborn-focused medical devices....