Hussein Kidanto new honorary doctor

Hussein Kidanto is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Aga Khan University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Throughout his career, he has worked as an obstetrician alongside his research, establishing him as a recognised researcher of international relevance to practitioners and policy makers alike. Dr Kidanto is a visionary advocate for the importance of higher education and research in international women’s and maternal health.

Hussein Kidanto has collaborated with Uppsala University for over two decades in both research and higher education, and has raised research issues in the globally neglected area of obstetric and newborn care in resource-limited settings with high disease burdens. Professor Kidanto has been a pioneer in his focus on improving care for vulnerable women and newborns, demonstrating how clinical delivery practices and perinatal monitoring methods can be adapted for local, low-resource healthcare contexts across Africa.

He has developed technological aids for healthcare that have had medical and structural benefits for mothers, newborns and healthcare teams. His research has highlighted the critical moments that improve the quality of care and demonstrates the importance of continuous feedback on healthcare professionals’ practices - saving lives without increasing costs.

Hussein Kidanto has given countless students a deeper understanding of the possibilities of conducting research and quality improvement work to achieve the UN’s global health goals in maternal and child health. Over the years, many medical, nursing and master’s students from Uppsala University have been supervised by Hussein Kidanto in Tanzania.