MAMAACT is a large intervention research project funded by TrygFonden. The project was initiated May 1st, 2017 and is expected to be completed in March 2021. MAMAACT wants to change the social and ethnic inequity in maternal and child health in Denmark by strengthening the dialogue between pregnant women and the midwives. MAMAACT is collaborating with 19 out of 20 maternity wards in Denmark, and 350 midwives have participated in MAMAACT’s post graduate education program and 25.000 pregnant women are expected to receive the intervention.
The steering committee for the project consists of the project leader Assistant Professor Sarah Fredsted Villadsen, Professor Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen from The Department of Public Health, as well as senior advisor Janne Sørensen from The Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health (MESU). The steering committee is in charge of the daily management of the project as well as for setting the strategic directions for the project while ensuring that the project achieves its milestones.
The project is a partnership between The Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health (MESU) and The Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, the delivery wards throughout the country, the Migrant Health Clinics at Hvidovre Hospital and Odense University Hospital, the Committee of Health Education as well as the midwifery education at the Metropolitan University College. Collectively the partners ensure that the MAMAACT activities are of the highest quality possible and that these are relevant in the practical settings in the delivery wards. Furthermore, the sustainability of the project is ensured though a focus on the future education of midwives in intercultural communication and diversity sensitivity as well as through a planned integration of the app and folder in existing materials in the long term.
The partners:
Committee of Health Education
Migrant Health Clinic at Hvidovre Hospital
Migrant Health Clinic at Odense University
Metropolitan University College
Delivery wards
Other partners:
The Neighbourhood Mothers
United
An advisory board has been established and is contributing with excellent strategic and professional advice. The advisory board meets annually, and consists of internationally acclaimed researchers within the fields of complex interventions, migrant reproductive health, medical anthropology and epidemiology.
The following persons are members of the advisory board:
• Professor Birgitta Essén, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University
• Professor Sarah Salway, Section of Public Health, University of Sheffield
• Department manager Elie Azria, Hôpital Paris Saint Joseph
• Research Director Janet Rich-Edwards, Division of Women’s health, Harvard University
• Associate Professor Ulla Christensen, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen