WOMEN’S HEALTH RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE

 
  
CENTRE DE FORMATION ET DE RECHERCHE EN SANTE MATERNELLE

The Women’s Health Research and Training Center was created on the 15 September 2020 by Dr Onankoy Atshakala Onyangunga, Associate Professor at Université Notre Dame de Tshumbe, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Vision

Reduction of morbidity and mortality feto-maternal during pregnancy, childbirth and in the postpartum

Mission

Improve the health of women through research and training of Health Care and Research personnel.
 

Aims 

Research and Training focused on the needs and priorities of the Government on maternal and fetal health.

To assist the health authorities in the establishment of health policies and systems related to maternal health as a consultative organ.

To improve the understanding of maternal pathologies and coming with the best way to treat the women community. 

To date the Centre has a Director, Consultants and Researchers who join for now as part time agents. 

Consultants:

Prof G U Wembodinga, MD, MMed (O&G), MPH, PhD

Utshudi Lumbu, PH, MPH

Director

Prof. Dr OA Onyangunga, MBChB, MMed (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) PhD.

Expert in Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy, HIV and infectious et parasites Diseases in Pregnancy. Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Researcher at Women’s Health and HIV Research Unit, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Kwazulu Natal (South Africa)

Secretariat and Adminstration


Mrs. Nicole Kalala Mpwekela

 



 

Special Advisor 

Emeritus Prof Dr J Moodley, MBChB, FCOG, FRCOG, MD

Director of Women’s Health and HIV Research, University of Kwazulu Natal.
Expert in Women Health and Adviser for the National Department of Health in South Africa. 

Training

The objectives of the training are:
1. To insure capacity building of health care providers and researchers to fill the gaps across the vast country and help the underserved population of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2. To bring the new knowledges and skills to the professionals working in remote areas or who need continuous medical education.
3. To train the trainers.

The training is directed particularly to the professional nurses and doctors and the duration of the course is determined according to the certificate or diploma for which the participant is registered.
In collaboration with national and international institutions (universities and research centres) the tuitions are being given by highly qualified and experts in each domain. The teachings will give priority in management of childbirth and its emergency conditions (ESMOE) responsible of high maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. 

Research

We focused our research in the following topics:
1. Maternal mortality, analysis causes and research of proposal solutions for it reduction.
2. Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy: Preeclampsia/Eclampsia, HELLP Syndrome and Placenta
3. Malaria in Pregnancy
4. Viral infections in Pregnancy: HIV, SARAS-CoV-2
5. High Risk Pregnancy 

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