CEO and Co-Founder of Maila Health

Dr. Samantha Lattof

Researcher. Founder. Mother.

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Dr. Samantha Lattof is an experienced health researcher, founder of Maila Health GmbH, and mother. She is passionate about applying the latest scientific and technological innovations to improve the quality of maternal and newborn healthcare.

Publications

Dr. Lattof has authored over 45 papers in leading academic journals and for global conferences and organizations. Her research has been used to develop WHO guidelines, translated into policy and action, and recognized for being “meticulous, analytically rigorous and replicable.”

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Maila Health

As a result of her research and her experiences seeking healthcare as a pregnant migrant in Germany, Dr. Lattof started Maila Health GmbH. Maila Health is a mission-driven organization that seeks to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes and experiences through meaningful innovation in digital health. 

Latest Publications

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Delivering quality care to all mothers and newborns requires governments to engage the private sector (2023)

“Governments clearly have an opportunity to improve health outcomes by engaging the private sector in efforts to deliver quality care. We argue that to achieve universal health coverage with quality, governments must engage the private sector in a more structured way.

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National learning systems to sustain and scale up delivery of quality healthcare: A conceptual framework (2022)

Our conceptual framework is the first to facilitate the operationalisation of national learning systems so that health systems can begin to develop, adapt and implement mechanisms to learn about what works or fails and to scale up and sustain this learning for quality of care.

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Private sector delivery of maternal and newborn health care in low-income and middle-income countries: A scoping review protocol (2021)

“To analyse opportunities and challenges of private sector delivery of maternal and newborn health (MNH) care as they pertain to the new World Health Organization strategy on engaging the private health service delivery sector, a more granular understanding of the private health sector’s role in MNH delivery is imperative.”

Read the open-access scoping review protocol.