Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development seeks groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in poor, hard-to-reach communities around the time of delivery. The effort is funded by a partnership of international development organizations including USAID, the Government of Norway (Norad), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada (funded by the Government of Canada), the U.K.’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
The Duke Global Health Innovation Center, the Duke Global Health Institute’s Evidence Lab and the Duke Center for International Development will receive up to $2.8 million over five years to evaluate the impact of the Saving Lives at Birth program and innovations, including their health and economic impact. They will also analyze the program and its portfolio in real time over the course of the next three to five years. This program will be co-led by Krishna Udayakumar, MD, MBA, director of the GHIC, and Joy Noel Baumgartner, PhD, director of the DGHI Evidence Lab. At DCID, efforts will be led by Dr. Fernando Fernholz and DCID associate in research Siddharth Dixit.
Faculty and staff team members: Joy Noel Baumgartner, Krishna Udayakumar, Amy Finnegan, Sowmya Rajan, Andrea Taylor, Blen Biru, Osondu Ogbuoji, Fernando Fernholz, Siddharth Dixit
Study Design
Mixed-Methods, Impact Modeling
More Info
More information at savinglivesatbirth.net
More information at globalhealth.duke.edu
