Stine Lund, Ida Marie Boas, Tariku Bedesa, Wondewossen Fekede, Henriette Svarre Nielsen and Bjarke Lund Sørensen
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Biography
Stine Lund is a Pediatrician with extensive experience in global reproductive and child health. Her area of special interest is health systems in Sub-Saharan
Africa, where for the last decades has worked for numerous organizations including Danida (Danish International Development Agency) and as an independent Consultant. She has extensive experience with innovative use of mobile phone solutions to improve maternal and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is responsible for the development, research and scale up of two exciting mHealth innovations; the Wired Mothers and the Safe Delivery App. The Wired Mothers is a SMS based system that links women to health systems throughout pregnancy and early childhood while the Safe Delivery App uses animation-videos to improve quality of care with a focus on lifesaving interventions such as management of post-partum hemorrhage and neonatal resuscitation. Academically, she holds a PhD degree and is affiliated with the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark with a focus on conducing randomized controlled trials in Ghana, Ethiopia and Tanzania.