University of Birmingham Global Health Research Showcase

 IPCRG was featured in a recent Global Health Showcase by the University of Birmingham, UK, covering a wide-ranging programme of collaborative research activities. The opening presentation was a truly inspiring example of global health research making it easy to do the right thing. In this case the target was childbirth-related bleeding. The E-MOTIVE intervention, in a study of over 200,000 women in four countries led by Prof Arri Coomarasamy,  involves a standardised way to measure who is at risk, followed by the systematic application of an evidence-based bundle of interventions. The trial demonstrated a 60 per cent reduction in severe bleeding, defined as losing more than one litre of blood after birth, significantly decreasing the risk of maternal mortality.

Closer to our field of family medicine, our colleague Prof Chunhua Chi, from China, was in conversation with Prof KK Cheng, and Chunhua presented the astonishing increase in GPs in China, of which she has played an important role: from 110,000 GPs in 2012 to 435,000 in 2021.

Rachel Jordan, who co-hosted the event and is a member of our Research Leadership Team, and Siân Williams, IPCRG CEO, then had a conversation. They discussed the role IPCRG plays in facilitating the engagement of our member countries in global health research, and in building capacity in stakeholder engagement and communications, including policy briefing, and in disseminating findings, using the Breathe Well example.