Lauren Bellhouse is a Senior Program Associate for the EngenderHealth-led Fistula Care Plus project. She is a public health professional with over seven years of experience specializing in maternal and child health, mHealth, integrated community case management, and health systems strengthening. She has previously worked on such projects as MNCH/HIV service integration with UNICEF, training of MNCH and nutrition focused community health workers with Helen Keller International- Philippines, and establishing a community health worker training program for low-literacy traditional birth attendants in Sierra Leone with Concern Worldwide. Ms. Bellhouse received a BA from Emory University and her MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
EngenderHealth’s USAID-funded Fistula Care Plus project, with partners Panzi Foundation and Mama, LLC, hosted a webinar to discuss the impact of integrating physical rehabilitation in fistula and maternity care. Maternal morbidities such as pelvic organ prolapse and obstetric fistula affect women’s ability to carry out daily tasks and participate fully in society. Surgical treatment is often […]
Co-authored by Elly Arnoff, FC+ Program Associate for Evaluation and Research and Lauren Bellhouse, consultant and former FC+ Senior Program Associate. What can a mobile phone do to help connect women with fistula treatment services? Fistula Care Plus (FC+) is partnering with Viamo to provide a free phone hotline that screens women for fistula. Using […]
New WHO Guidelines on Short-duration Catheterization Following Simple Obstetric Fistula Surgery In April of 2015, WHO and the USAID-funded Fistula Care Plus project at EngenderHealth published results in The Lancet from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on short-duration catheterization following fistula repair. The large-scale study demonstrated that short-duration bladder catheterization of 7 days post-repair was both […]
Please join the Fistula Community of Practice (FCoP) on November 9, 2017 at 9:30 am Eastern Daylight Time for a webinar sharing highlights from a recent technical consultation on cesarean section safety and quality in low-resource settings. Cesarean section provision has expanded rapidly in low/middle-income countries (LMIC). While this includes needed growth in emergency obstetric […]
On April 10, 2017, Fistula Care Plus (FC+) held the webinar, “After Fistula Repair: Understanding Women’s Needs in Uganda,” the third in its Fistula Community of Practice (FCoP) webinar series. The webinar, moderated by FC+ Global Projects Manager Bethany Cole, featured Dr. Alison El Ayadi of UCSF’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, as well as commentary from the […]
