The Accelerate Project Health Systems, Context and Frontline Provide Decision Making for Maternal and Neonatal Health: The Accelerate Project K. Klipstein-Grobusch1, I.A. Agyepong2 for the Accelerate Project Group ¹ Julius Global Health, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service, Ghana AIM To design, implement and evaluate interventions with a focus on mhealth to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. To generate new knowledge on how to effectively strengthen health systems and ensure high-quality services, good governance and decision making To build capacity in the health sector to support future knowledge generation, policy making and implementation APPROACH Research questions linked to country multi-level decision for maternal and child health within the health system in an integrated inter-dependent manner National (Top) level policy-making District and facility (Mid) level decision space for implementation and management of programs Clinical (Floor) level decision-making Institutional capacity building Multi-disciplinary research with PhD candidates: realist evaluation, policy analysis, hospital ethnography, epidemiology / clinical research ACHIEVEMENTS Contact information: k.klipstein-grobusch@umcutrecht.nl WOTRO Science for Global Development