2014 Awardees

Exploring Medication Safety Hazards in an Ethiopian Academic Emergency Department: A Human Factors Approach

Who:  Ephrem Abone

Project:  The project is aimed at looking into the issue of medication safety hazards in the emergency department (ED) of an Ethiopian academic hospital. Specifically, it applied human factors engineering concepts to understand current barriers and facilitators to safe medication use practices.  Knowledge of the barriers, some of which unique to resource limited settings, will help us inform recommendations to better design/redesign the existing work system in the ED, with a possibility of scale up to other EDs in the country. This project was supported by the generous funding from the Global Health Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

University of Wisconsin-Madison—Addis Ababa University Neurology Program

Who: Doug Dulli

Project: In October 2013, Doug facilitated a three-week resident rotation at the Addis Ababa University in which they gave lectures and participated in grand rounds and journal club activities. He also enlisted in a clinical research project with AAU Neurology to study barriers to the care of epilepsy in Ethiopia. The project is now in the planning stages to have one or two AAU neurology residents rotate here at the UW for six weeks per year, beginning in September of 2014.