was held in Barcelona from June 18th to 20th at the FCRI (Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació), bringing together all the Consortium teams for the final result presentation. This event marks the end of QUALI-DEC, an international scientific research project that has lasted more than five years in four target countries (Argentina, …
Alexandre Dumont (scientific coordinator of the Quali-Dec project) travelled to join the Quali-Dec team from CREP (Centre Rosarino De Estudios Perinatales) in Argentina to present the project results at SOGIBA, the 42nd annual congress held from 4 to 6 June 2025 in Buenos Aires. During this international obstetrics and gynaecology event, which brought together more than 4,000 healthcare …
Read the SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE published on 25/05/25 in EJOG (European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Reproductive Biology): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2025.114085 Lead author: Truc Phuong NGUYEN (PhD student in epidemiology within the QUALI-DEC project – Ceped/IRD – Université Paris Cité) – June 2025 Congratulations to Truc Phuong NGUYEN (PhD student in epidemiology within the QUALI-DEC project) for her …
The QUALI-DEC team is pleased to announce the publication in “THE CONVERSATION”* of an article by Camille Etcheverry (midwife and doctor of public health/epidemiology within the Quali-Dec-IRD project). The Quali-Dec research project, conducted in low- and middle-income countries, focuses on caesarean sections performed without medical indication and on ways to return to a more reasoned …
Truc Phuong NGUYEN (PhD student in epidemiology within the QUALI-DEC project – Ceped/IRD – Université Paris Cité) presented her scientific poster dedicated to her latest research work on “Decision aids around childbirth: Are they meeting women’s needs? A scoping review”. As every year, the scientific days of the Doctoral School 393 in Public Health were …
Camille Etcheverry (midwife and doctoral student in epidemiology with the QUALI-DEC project), will publicly present her doctoral thesis defense in public health on November 21, entitled: “Mode of delivery in low- and middle-income countries: non-clinical factors influencing decision-making “, under the supervision of Alexandre Dumont (gynecologist-obstetrician, research director at IRD, researcher at Ceped-Université Paris Cité …
Nopparat Rajathanee Hospital, a participant in the Quali-Dec (Safe Delivery) research project in Bangkok, recently celebrated the successful participation of another couple in their “Birth Companion” program. Ratana Chamroeun and Kanitha Sat, a Cambodian couple, welcomed a healthy baby with the support of the program, which allows fathers to actively participate in the labor process. The “Birth Companion” program aims to promote safe …
The results of the QUALI-DEC international research project on the appropriate use of caesarean sections led to an ORDINANCE adopted on 11 April by the Municipality of Rosario (Argentina). This decision aims to promote and guarantee safe childbirth for all pregnant women and their babies, helping to reduce the abusive practice of caesarean sections in …
On Tuesday 12 December 2023, the first Women’s Health Atrium seminar was held, marking the official launch of the Institut Hors-Murs (IHM) Santé des Femmes, an innovative initiative designed to bring together the expertise of Université Paris Cité clinicians and researchers in a diverse range of disciplines. The IHM is positioned as a driving force …
The results of the international research project Quali-Dec, focused on the appropriate use of cesarean sections, have led to a proposed law presented on November 7, 2023, before the Chamber of Deputies in Argentina. This law aims to promote and ensure safe childbirth for all pregnant women and their babies, thereby contributing to reducing the …
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