Where is Immpact working and what research questions Immpact is exploring in each country?
WG: Immpact has conducted more than four years of collaborative research in Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Indonesia. In each country, we evaluated different maternal health strategies to see what barriers prevent women from accessing skilled delivery care. How effective is Ghana’s delivery-fee-exemption policy and which households benefit most and how much? In Indonesia, what is the relationship between the number of midwives living in a village and the relative risk of maternal death? In Burkina Faso, which women were most likely to experience a life-threatening obstetric complication? These are just some of the policy-relevant questions we researched. PRB: What makes Immpact different or particularly innovative? And how do these innovations advance the field? WG: I have my own personal view of what the letters in Immpact symbolize. For me, the “I” is for innovation. The ethos of Immpact I was innovation: We had to develop new ways to design, implement, and synthesize this research initiat
