UBOMI BUHLE - a pregnancy exposure registry in South Africa focused on improving maternal and newborn health care

Please join us for our fourth and final webinar of the year where Dr Ushma Mehta will be talking to us about UBOMI BUHLE - a national project aimed at improving our understanding of what exposures during pregnancy, such as medicines, substances and diseases, can result in poor birth outcomes.

Speaker Profile

Dr Ushma Mehta

Ubomi Buhle Co-principal investigator, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER)

University of Cape Town (UCT)

Ushma Mehta is a senior researcher at the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research at the University of Cape Town.  She is the co-PI of the UBOMI BUHLE pregnancy exposure registry, which she will be telling us a bit more about. She has worked on several projects aimed at improving our understanding of the safety of medicines used to treat malaria, TB, HIV, vaccine-preventable diseases. In recent years she is focusing on building systems to support the safe use of medicines in pregnancy.  She is a founding member of the SubSaharan Congenital Anomaly Network.

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