We have always created concept memos, which sought to inform change through those who the change is affecting. In 2025, we want to continue our commitments and focus on our vision to bring more African women researchers, researching women’s health.
Open call for funding and collaboration
In our 10 th year, we are broadening our commitments to our respondents and to women researchers. We are seeking funding for organisational strengthening, training and upskilling of women researchers in Africa, writing up and publishing the results of our research so that it can reach more people in the wider public health community, and piloting a new project based around understanding, augmenting and scaling up low-cost, high-impact maternal and child health initiatives in low-income settings. This presentation outlines how support can help us undertake this important work.
Bringing our research to the public health community
Ensuring that the vital information we hear from our respondents reaches a wide audience is crucially important – we need their voices to be heard so that healthcare policy decisions, provision of interventions and further research to address knowledge gaps are informed and targeted to benefit those who need them most, in the most appropriate and effective ways. We are committed to publishing the results of our research, and this presentation outlines how support can enable us to publish the results of 5 contraceptive studies, to make a meaningful impact in women’s health research.
Anchoring social change through maternal health and motherhood
From listening to our respondents, we firmly believe that communities hold the solutions to health problems within those communities. We are planning to pilot a study looking into low-cost, high-impact maternal and child health initiatives and the communities around them: why these programs are successful, how they can be augmented with additional products or services for greater impact, and how they can be scaled up. We will work with key stakeholders, utilising a continuous feedback loop to ensure that developments are sustainable and supported. See this presentation for more detail on this planned study.
