
#031 - Building Newborn Systems in Humanitarian Settings: Lessons from a Decade of Capacity Building
In this episode, Mbozu and Shelly-Ann sit down with Dr. Franck Houndjahoue to explore what it takes to strengthen newborn care in humanitarian and post-conflict settings. Drawing on nearly a decade of...
12 Aug 1h 12min

#030 - From Preterm Mother to Movement Builder: How Mama Tulia Is Bridging the Gap Between NICU and Home, in Uganda
In this episode, Mbozu and Shelly-Ann sit down with Isabelle Furaha, a Congolese-born mother living in Uganda, whose experience with prematurity and loss led her to create Mama Tulia Ministries. After...
8 Juli 1h 1min

#029 - Scaling Newborn Care in Ghana: Telemedicine, Caffeine, and the Power of Collaboration
In this episode, Mbozu and Shelly-Ann sit down with Dr. Naana Wireko Brobby, a neonatologist leading national efforts to strengthen newborn care in Ghana. She shares a grounded view of daily life at K...
3 Juni 1h 8min

#028 - Family Systems Care: An example from Hohoe, Ghana (ft. Christina Schuler, Jessica Honya-Tsiewu, and George Edward Ntow)
In this episode, we explore a decade-long journey to transform newborn care in Ghana's Hohoe region, focusing on family systems of care, cross-cultural research collaborations, and innovative training...
9 Maj 53min

#027 - A Preemie, Her Pediatrician, and 40 Years of Neonatal Care in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG)
In this episode, Mbozu and Shelly-Ann sit down with Dr. Bharati Datta and Dr. Josel Doyle for a conversation that spans four decades and one very full circle moment. Over 40 years ago, Dr. Datta arriv...
15 Apr 1h 11min

#026 - How a Parent Charity Transformed Neonatal Care in Barbados
In this episode, Shelly-Ann and Mbozu sit down with a few members of the Parents Neonatal Intensive Care Charity affiliated with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados. Heidi and Andrew Hutchinson,...
4 Mars 1h 6min

#025 - Leadership in Action: Establishing Neonatal Services in a Regional Hospital
Dr. Naiza Ngowo Monono, the sole pediatrician at Limbe Regional Hospital in Cameroon for nearly a decade, shares how she reduced neonatal mortality to 16 per 1,000—well below the national average. Key...
12 Feb 55min



















