She recently completed a PhD on exemptions policies for delivery care, and edited a book on obstetric financing. Focal countries for this work were Ghana and Senegal. Her particular area of responsibility has been the evaluation of the impact of removal of user fees on access to maternity care. As a research fellow, her specialist area is health policy, finance and systems. For the last four years she has contributed to the Immpact project at the University of Aberdeen, an international research initiative strengthening the evidence base for reducing maternal mortality. There are currently over 350 members of the IAHS, working on areas such as public health, child health, obstetrics and gynaecology, health economics and health services research.ĭr Sophie Witter is a health economist with 20 years of experience in developing and transitional countries. IMMPACT is based within the Institute of Applied Health Sciences. It has recently been involved in evaluating national strategies to reduce maternal mortality in a number of countries, including Burkina Faso, Ghana and Indonesia. Immpact is a global research initiative whose aim is to promote better health for mothers to be in developing countries. The staff participating within this bid are based within IMMPACT - the Initiative for Maternal Mortality Programme Assessment ( ). Its heath services research was recently rated as the equal first of all UK institutions. Aberdeen performed outstandingly in the UK’s most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008) with 89% of research activity assessed as international quality and 55% is ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.

The UoA has an outstanding history of pioneering discoveries which have changed thinking and practice in medicine, science, arts and humanities over five centuries. The University of Aberdeen will be responsible for leading WP 1 (Management and Coordination) and WP 2 (Health Policy, Finance and Economics).

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