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The evidence-based management of Postpartum Haemorrhage

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About OMPHI
The Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute (
OMPHI) aims to bring together world experts to resolve priority maternal and perinatal health problems. OMPHI engages medical researchers, social scientists and health management experts in major issues affecting the health of mothers and newborn babies, particularly in resource-poor settings.
OMPHI has coordinated four large studies funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, EngenderHealth and the Maternal Health Task Force. It has built a network of over 100 researchers across a wide range of countries.

About GFMER
The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (
GFMER) is a non-profit organisation established in 2002. It is supported by the Republic and Canton of Geneva, the Department of Social Affairs of the City of Geneva and other Swiss and international institutions. The Foundation works in close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). GFMER is a WHO Collaborating Centre in Education and Research in Human Reproduction. The overall objectives of the Foundation are to furnish health education and research programmes that can be accessed by developing countries and countries in economic transition, and to establish collaboration between entities from the public and private sectors.

OMPHI/GFMER joint initiatives
In 2010,
OMPHI and GFMER started working together to produce e-learning material in the field of maternal and perinatal health. Their first success was the development and implementation of an online training course entitled “The evidence-based management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia - University of Oxford” and its Spanish version, “La evidencia basada en el manejo de la preeclampsia y eclampsia - Universidad de Oxford”. The development of this course was funded by the MacArthur Foundation through EngenderHealth. Group training sessions, based on the online course, have been held in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, India, Mexico and Nigeria.
Feedback from health professionals participating in the
OMPHI/GFMER course on pre-eclampsia and eclampsia showed a high demand for a similar course on post-partum haemorrhage, which causes a large number of maternal deaths worldwide. OMPHI/GFMER have developed an online training course entitled “The evidence-based management of post-partum haemorrhage”. Professor José Villar, University of Oxford, led the advisory board responsible for the course structure and content, which was adapted from the guidelines of WHO and the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists by Dr Raqibat Idris, GFMER; Dr Marloes Schoonheim, GFMER, edited the course. It was reviewed by a team of specialists in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Drs Friday Okonofua, Dimitrios Siassakos and Edwin Chandraharan) led by Dr Aris Papageorghiou who also contributed to the course content. eXact learning solutions developed the e-learning format. The course is currently being tested in collaboration with Global Voices for Maternal Health. Its development was funded by EngenderHealth through the MacArthur Foundation, Maternal Health Task Force and OMPHI.

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