Our Global Birth Defects Research Fellow, Dr Leke Aminkeng, returned from Bratislava, Slovakia last week invigorated. Why? Because his presentation about our Birth Defects App was met with great enthusiasm and interest from conference participants. He travelled to Bratislava for ... Read more
We are always updating and expanding our comprehensive resource inventory to ensure it contains the tools you seek in order to develop or enhance your local surveillance system. Today, under our Registration Manuals/Software section, we added a downloadable curriculum for ... Read more
Phase I testing of our App began June 1 and continues throughout this month. During this phase, expert clinician reviewers will download, register, and use the Basic Version of the App. These reviewers will provide feedback through a questionnaire that ... Read more
Have you heard about the birth surveillance network in Latin America called ECLAMC? ECLAMC stands for Estudio Colaborative Latino Americano de Malformaciones Congénitas—Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations. Their network of hospitals voluntarily register infants with malformations. Their approach ... Read more
Did you know that our website contains a comprehensive resource inventory for improving congenital anomaly surveillance in low-resource areas? We have a section dedicated to registration manuals and software. If you are a programme manager in a health surveillance system, ... Read more
February 28, 2019 - The newly launched Global Birth Defects website has been funded by ZikaPLAN. We are therefore happy to mark World Birth Defects Day by highlighting actions to address birth defects caused by the Zika virus. Today, we ... Read more
February 25, 2019 - Join the World Birth Defects Day Twitter Chat on Friday, March 1 at 11am. It is a bilingual chat hosted by the March of Dimes. Read more
January 21-22, 2018 - Our team of public health and clinical experts have been meeting to finalise the content that will be on the App we're developing. This App is intended for the description and coding of birth defects in ... Read more
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