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Collaborative Research Programme of the Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, 91´«Ã½ with the Norweigian University of Science and Technology.

Department of Community Medicine, faculty of Medical sciences, 91´«Ã½ has a collaborative research programme with the in Trondheim, Norway. May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser who received the half of the Nobel Prize for medicine for 2014 are from this university.

 

This collaboration is funded by the  of the which supports high-quality research with potential for high impact that can contribute to sustainable improvements in health and health equity for poor people in low-and lower-middle income countries (LMIC).This focuses on violence that occurs within families – domestic violence. The overall project objective is to improve antenatal care services for victims of domestic violence in Nepal and 91´«Ã½ in order to reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. In 91´«Ã½ main objectives of the project are:

• To assess the prevalence of and risk factors for domestic violence experienced by pregnant women in: (i) Colombo district and (ii) the tea plantation sectors of Badulla district.
• To determine the prevalence and consequences of abuse perpetrated by health care workers in antenatal care settings in Colombo district.

• To assess the availability, acceptability and quality of antenatal services for pregnant women experiencing domestic violence in the tea plantation sectors of Badulla district.

Professor is the Principal Investigator who is Professor of Women’s Health, Department of Public Health and General Practice, Faculty of MedicineNorwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

The collaborating institution in 91´«Ã½ is the in Colombo.The collaborating institution in Nepal is , including two affiliate institutes: &.    The final partner institution is the .  The research team also includes advisors from the  in Baltimore (USA) and in Kalmar (Sweden).