Projects

Establishing global norms for child development using a new tool developed by the World Health Organization.

To assess Health care providers' preparedness to manage COVID-19 and examine the associated psychological effects in Ghana and Kenya.

A mixed-methods longitudinal cohort study to understand incidence and risk factors for adverse post-genital fistula repair outcomes.

Increasing vaccine confidence, especially among pregnant women, is important and social media holds potential to reach a large population quickly and inexpensively.  We will develop and test and WhatsApp chatbot to address vaccine hesitancy in pregnant and breastfeeding women India. 

The Innovations for Choice and Autonomy (ICAN) project is designed to obtain a deeper understanding of how self-injection (SI) of subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) can be implemented to support informed contraceptive choice and use from the perspective of women in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda.

Improving maternal and neonatal health by strengthening nurse mentoring programs implemented by partners in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India.

Exploring maternal and neonatal biomarkers of neurodevelopmental risk.

Adaptation of the person-centered maternity care scale for women of color in the U.S.

A project to develop a mobile information and social support group for postpartum women in rural Punjab, India.

A randomized trial comparing the effectiveness, safety, costs and cost-effectiveness of kangaroo mother care before stabilization versus standard care amongst neonates weighing less than 2000g in Uganda.

This project evaluates the feasibility, sustainability and preliminary impact of the Pop-Up Village model of family and perinatal care delivery, a one-stop-shop for cross-sector services.

Landscaping project to identify promising approaches and existing evidence on interventions and programs to promote RMC in Africa. 

The Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBi), a partnership between Lynne and Marc Benioff, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), offers a unique opportunity to apply scientific, clinical, and community expertise to address the growing problem of prematurity.

The PTBi East Africa Discovery Research portfolio contributes to global knowledge about preterm birth and supports testing of tools to improve preterm birth prevention and management. 

PTBi East Africa developed an intrapartum and immediate postnatal care package designed to improve the uptake of evidence-based practices known to save newborn lives.

PTBi offers a two-year transdisciplinary post-doctoral fellowship focused on reducing disparities in preterm birth and improving maternal and neonatal outcomes. 

PTBi East Africa tested whether a facility-based antenatal and postnatal group care model impacted gestational age at birth.

To review, rethink, and revise the global EmONC framework and set of indicators for EmONC policy-making, monitoring, and strengthening.