Safe Motherhood Connects with “Open a Door” which gives Education to Future Women Leaders from Post-Conflict Countries

Jan 4, 2015: Professor Miller meets with Rwandan Scholars from the NGO “Open a Door” which provides educational opportunities for future women leaders from post-conflict countries (Rwanda, Afghanistan, Cambodia) for a leadership seminar.

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Emma Rouda is an MPH graduate student at University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health studying Maternal and Child Health. Emma worked in Zambia on the NASG cluster trials as well as supporting other research and dissemination of the results of the Zambia and Zimbabwe combined results. She assisted with the startup of Beyond Repair, an obstetric fistula study set in Uganda. Emma is currently conducting a secondary data analysis on over 1600 cases of women with severe hypovolemic shock to explore the relationship of comorbidities to maternal mortality.