Krystyna Makowiecka MEd MSc
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Krystyna Makowiecka has studied International Relations, Education for Primary Health Care and Epidemiology, and has a background in teaching and research.
She has managed qualitative research projects and collaborated on quantitative study design, data collection and analysis. Her principal area of academic and programmatic interest is maternal and neonatal health. She has considerable experience in MNH provision in Indonesia and has also worked in Nepal, India and Pakistan, reviewing MNH programmes and projects.
Affiliation
Teaching
Krystyna is a fellow of the Institute of Learning and Teaching and has run courses on social dimensions of health, with a special focus on women's health. At LSHTM she is a Course Director for the MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries, runs the Data Management module and contributes to the course Current Issues In Safe Motherhood & Perinatal Health. She is a training fellow with Ipact and has run international training courses in six countries in Africa and Asia in Monitoring and Evaluation of Maternal and Neonatal Health Programmes for programme managers in ministries of health at national level and in international NGOs.
Research
For five years, Krystyna worked for IMMPACT, a research project that examines approaches to assessing the effectiveness and cost of maternal health programmes. The main focus of her work was the village-based midwife programme in Indonesia with a particular interest in the distribution of personnel and referral to hospital of women who suffer an obstetric emergency.
Currently she undertakes consultancies to review and evaluate programmes related to reproductive health, implemented by international and national NGOs and by bilateral donors.
Research areas
- Evaluation
- Maternal health
- Primary care
- Public health
Disciplines
- Epidemiology
- Operational research
- Sociology
Other interests
- Health Personnel
- MARCH
- Midwifery
- Monitoring
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Selected publications
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Assessing quality of care provided by Indonesian village midwives with a confidential enquiry
D'Ambruoso, L.; Achadi, E.; Adisasmita, A.; Izati, Y.; Makowiecka, K.; Hussein, J.
Midwifery, 2009; 25(5):528-539
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Did professional attendance at home births improve early neonatal survival in Indonesia ?
Hatt, L.; Stanton, C.; Ronsmans, C.; Makowiecka, K.; Adisasmita, A.
Health Policy and Planning, 2009; 24(4):270-278
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Did the strategy of skilled attendance at birth reach the poor in Indonesia?
Hatt, L.; Stanton, C.; Makowiecka, K.; Adisasmita, A.; Achadi, E.; Ronsmans, C.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007; 85(10):774-782
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Midwifery provision and uptake of maternity care in Indonesia.
Achadi, E.; Scott, S.; Pambudi, E.S.; Makowiecka, K.; Marshall, T.; Adisasmita, A.; Deviany, P.E.; Ronsmans, C.;
Trop Med Int Health, 2007; 12(12):1490-7
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A confidential enquiry into maternal death and near-miss in Indonesia
D'Ambruoso, L.; Achadi, E.; Hussein, J.; Makowiecka, K.; Rachmawati, T.; Suslam, D.
Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2007; 12:97-97
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Current strategies for the reduction of maternal mortality
Bullough, C.; Meda, N.; Makowiecka, K.; Ronsmans, C.; Achadi, E. L.; Hussein, J.
Bjog-an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2005; 112(9):1180-1188
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