Dilys Walker
Dr. Dilys Walker works jointly in the Obstetrics and Gynecology and Global Health Sciences Departments at UCSF. Dr. Walker is also affiliate faculty at UC Berkeley and a visiting Professor in Reproductive Health at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. Her principal research involves implementation trials addressing issues related to quality of antenatal and obstetric care, designing and implementing innovative provider training strategies using highly realistic simulation and team-training as well as group models of antenatal care. Dr. Walker directs the Maternal Newborn Health Research Cooperative at UCSF, is president and co-founder of PRONTO International, an NGO dedicated to making birth safer for mothers, infants and their providers; and serves as the Principal Investigator on four global MNH focused grants. Dr. Walker collaborates with partners in India, Kenya, Uganda, Mexico, and Guatemala.
USAID HEARD Evaluation Hub
Improving policy, programs and understanding through evaluation research.
LINQED
Improving maternal and neonatal health by strengthening nurse mentoring programs implemented by partners in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India.
PTBi East Africa
The Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBi), a partnership between Lynne and Marc Benioff, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), offers a unique opportunity to apply scientific, clinical, and community expertise to address the growing problem of prematurity.
USAID STAR
The overall goal of USAID Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) is to strengthen the capacity of global health professionals and organizations, so they can implement stronger programs, achieve better results, and make a bigger impact in the global health field.
CAS for Anganwadi workers (AWW) in India
The CAS application is a mobile technology designed for Anganwadi workers (AWW), community health workers in India, to improve their identification, follow up, and referral of at-risk children and mothers.
USAID HEARD Project
HEARD addresses “know-do” gaps, or delays, in the discovery of effective interventions and their wide-scale application. HEARD emphasizes local ownership and partnerships in order to scale up equitable and sustainable efforts.
