Events and News
JSANDS is one of two IDRC-funded projects currently under implementation in Jordan
Two IDRC-funded projects are currently under implementation in Jordan, the first project, establishing a Harmonized Reproductive Health Registry (hRHR) in Jordan to improve Maternal and Child Health, is being implemented by the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET). The second project, implementing a Perinatal and Neonatal Mortality Surveillance and Auditing System in Jordan (JSANDS)...
Site visit by the Senior Program Officer at International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Dr. Qamar Mahmood from the IDRC visited the JSANDS participating hospitals as a follow up visit to monitor the progress of the project development and implementation. Dr. Qamar first met with the JSANDS team and then he started his schedule program with a tour at Rahma and Badea...
JSANDS Mid-term Workshop , Nov. 2019
Mid-term workshop 27/11/2019 The JSANDS project mid-term workshop was held in Irbid city on the 27th of November, 2019. A total of 150 participants including directors of the five implementing hospitals, paediatricians, obstetrics and gynecologists, senior medical residents, registered nurses, and midwives attended the workshop. The project director introduced the project to the participants, presented achievements that has been in place...
Prof. Yousef Khader, co-authored a publication in NATURE entitled “Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 …
The Director of JSANDS project, Prof. Yousef Khader, co-authored a publication in NATURE entitled "Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017"
QS WOW NEWS, QS Higher Education News, published an article on JSANDS.
QS WOW NEWS, QS Higher Education News, published an article on JSANDS. you can access the article using the following link: https://qswownews.com/developing-a-software-for-perinatal-and-neonatal-mortality-surveillance-and-auditing-system-in-jordan-jsands/
Irbid Specialty Hospital responded to the recommendations of the Perinatal Death Review Committee
Irbid Specialty Hospital responded to the recommendations of the Perinatal Death Review Committee and developed a brochure for educating pregnant women on healthy lifestyles. Thanks to Irbid Specialty Hospital for prompt implementing the committee's recommendations.
A workshop on Scientific writing and surveillance: JSANDS as an example
Prof. Yousef Khader and Dr Majed Assad trained the Field Epidemiology Training Program residents and Community Medicine Residents on Scientific Writing and on Surveillance. Prof. Khader presented and demonstrated JSANDS to the trainees as an initiative to register perinatal deaths in Jordan in a one-day workshop, 28th September 2019.
The JSANDS team congratulates the Director of JSANDS, Prof. Yousef Khader
The JSANDS team congratulates the Director of JSANDS, Prof. Yousef Khader, for reaching a target of 400 scientific publications according to Scopus database. Based on Google Scholar Citations, Prof. Khader has more than 550 publications, with total citations of 53659, h-index of 70, and i10-index of 234.
“JSANDS: A stillbirth and neonatal deaths surveillance system” has been accepted as a Full Paper at IEEE HOPE’2019 @ AICCSA’2019.
The IEEE International Workshop on Health Informatics: Patient-Centered Solutions and Educational Approaches in the Digital Health Era is an integral part of the AICCSA conference. The paper will be included as a Full Paper in the Conference Proceedings and will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and indexed by IEEE...
A death review training workshop at Irbid Sepecialty hospital
A death review training workshop was conducted at Irbid Sepecialty hospital today, the 21st of August, 2019 by the JSANDS team. The chairman of the Death review committee at the hospital and all members attended the training. All sections within The two stillbirth and neonatal death review case forms were explained in details focusing...
Training workshop at Al-Karak Hospital for the death review committee
JSANDS team has conducted a training workshop at Al-Karak Governmental Hospital for the death review committee to train them on how to fill the JSANDS death review forms and how to conduct death reviewing meeting. The JSANDS team used both the “Stillbirth and Neonatal Mortality Audit – Meeting Minutes and Action Items Form” and...
JSANDS team installed four PCs and 4G Wireless Routers in Al karak Hospital
JSANDS team visited Al-Karak Governmental Hospital on 23/07/2019, during the visit four PCs and 4G Wireless Routers were installed at different departments including the NICU, Pediatric, labor and quality management department. The team also conducted two training sessions. During the training sessions the contents of the webpage of JSAND System (www.jsands.jo) were discussed to...
JSANDS published a new chapter in Handbook of Healthcare in the Arab World.
JSANDS published a new chapter on Birth and Neonatal Death Registrations in Jordan in Handbook of Healthcare in the Arab World. The chapter “Birth and Neonatal Death Registrations in Jordan ” examines to what extent births and neonatal deaths are underreported and discusses the challenges facing the current registration system in Jordan. Irrespective of where the...
JSANDS team has finished installing PCs in Maternity and childern hopital /Almafraq
JSANDS team has finished installing PCs in Maternity and childern hopital /Almafraq to be used for entering the data by the staff.
JSANDS team has finished installing PCs in Princess Badea and Princess Rahma hopitals
JSANDS team has finished installing PCs in Princess Badea and Princess Rahma hopitals to be used for entering the data by the staff.
A new journal article has been published by the JSANDS team
A new journal article "The quality of maternal-fetal and newborn care services in Jordan: a qualitative focus group study" has been published by the JSANDS team in an international journal (BMC Health Services Research)The article link: https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12913-019-4232-9 9
Training workshop at Princess Rahmah and Princess Bade’ah hospitals for the focal points of the JSANDS
The JSANDS team held a third training workshop in May, 2019 to familiarize the focal points at both Rahmah and Bade’ah hospitals in Irbid with the JSANDS surveillance system and train them on how to use it. The director of Nursing at the two hospitals and senior head nurses of both the midwifery unit...
JSANDS team has recently published a chapter in a new book “Handbook of Healthcare in the Arab World”.
JSANDS team has recently published a chapter entitled “Perinatal and Neonatal Mortality in Jordan” in a new book “Handbook of Healthcare in the Arab World”.
JSANDS team held a Training workshop at King Abdulla University Hospital for the JSANDS focal points
A training workshop was conducted at King Abdulla University Hospital in May, 2019 to train the focal points at the hospital on how to use the JSANDS surveillance system. The workshop was conducted by the JSANDS team. The head of nursing departments for the obstetric and maternity departments and the labour units at the hospital along with the head...
