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Work

January 2023-present: Co-PI and postdoctoral fellow, The PartoMa Project, Enabling Best Possible Childbirth care in Dar es Salaam, Global Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (roles as below)

February 2020-December 2022: Co-PI and postdoctoral fellow, The PartoMa Project, Enabling Best Possible Childbirth care in Dar es Salaam, Medical College, Aga Khan Univerisity, Dar es Salaam, East Africa

May 2015- April 2018: Medical Doctor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Education and training

2023-present:    Resident in Obstetric and Gynaecology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, East Africa

November 2015- 2020: Msc Epidemiology and PhD: Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, Zanzibar, Tanzania

June 2008-September 2013: MBBS, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia.

September 2005-June 2007: O-level and A-level: City of Norwich School, Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom

Short presentation

Natasha Housseine is a resident in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Aga Khan University, Tanzania. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen. She is from Comoros  and has worked for 3 years at a high-volume maternity unit of a referral hospital in Zanzibar, Tanzania. She is driven by a passion to improve the conditions and experiences of women during pregnancy and childbirth in low-resource settings. Pregnant women deserve the best care, no matter where they are in the world. She has a particular interest in stillbirth prevention which was the focus of her Ph.D.: "Strategies to improve intrapartum care: Foetal monitoring in low resource settings" and postdoctoral research: “ Enabling best possible childbirth care in Tanzania (The PartoMa Project)”. Since 2014, She has been a core member of PartoMa Project, which focuses on co-developing and implementing achievable clinical guidelines to assist healthcare providers in busy, resource-poor maternity care units in Tanzania to give the best possible evidence-based care. As a co-Principal Investigator, she holds multiple scientific and management roles. She also gains mentorship and training in research methodologies, leadership skills, and governance issues within a multinational, multi-disciplinary team of experts.