Black mothers have a right to safe & dignified care throughout pregnancy, birth, & the postpartum period—especially in #Africa , where 70% of all maternal mortality occurs.

Let's equip Black moms w/ knowledge & amplify their voices! #BlackMaternalHealthWeek #BMHW24 #Doula #Midwife

Delighted to highlight student winners of the Rice360 14th #GlobalHealth Technologies Design Competition!

#1 Sophia Singer, Joseph Okileng, Vivian Arinaitwe, & Saajen Patel from Duke Global Health & Makerere University for the NeoNest

👉 news.rice.edu/news/2024/duke…

#TheyMakeitWork #HealthforAll

Delighted to highlight student winners of the
Rice360 14th #GlobalHealth Technologies Design Competition!

#2 Seven awesome ♀️ biomedical engineers from Georgia Tech for NeoMates

#KnowTheirNames 👉 news.rice.edu/news/2024/duke…

#TheyMakeitWork #HealthforAll Women In Global Health

Delighted to keep highlighting student winners of
Rice360 14th #GlobalHealth Technologies Design Competition!

#3 Yiyi Yang, Philip DuBose, Celeste Wang & Shivani Kulkarni from Rice University, for CoreNeedle

More - news.rice.edu/news/2024/duke…

#TheyMakeitWork #BreastCancer

Still going. More student winners of Rice360
14th #GlobalHealth Technologies Design Competition!

#4 Five-member Penn team for LAPPI, a simple, device to help little ones with cleft lip & palate eat & drink

More - news.rice.edu/news/2024/duke…

#TheyMakeitWork

Today's the day!

Looking forward to the Rice360 14th #GlobalHealth Technologies Design Competition.

24 teams of undergrads from all over the 🌍 with potentially breakthrough medtech

You can join too - addevent.com/event/VR207668…

Rice Engineering NEST360 Rebecca Kortum

Join #EveryBreathCounts Coordinator Leith Greenslade today for 14th Rice360 #GlobalHealth Technologies Design Competition

24 undergrad teams from all over world with new medtech solutions!

Open to all 👉addevent.com/event/VR207668…

Rice University Rice Engineering NEST360

MEETING:
NEST360, partners discuss ways to improve newborn care 👶

Last week on Friday, April 5, the NEST360 program, implemented by @Ifakarahealth held discussions with healthcare leaders to strategize ways for enhancing newborn care in Tanzania! 🇹🇿

The event brought

Super valuable Tues Toolkit webinar! Pls join + share!
- Dynamic aMC Alexander Stevenson
- Exciting Eric from Vermont Oxford
- Nebiyou from NEST360 dashboards for QI
- Dr Pablo Duran on decades of PAHO/WHO perinatal data systems
- Overview talk on what works
Healthy Newborn Network (HNN)

#WHD2024 :
Advocating for newborns 👶

🇹🇿Tanzania has one of the highest numbers of newborn deaths; 75% of newborn deaths are preventable—however, little attention is given to neonatal deaths.

Advocating for newborn health isn't just about medical intervention; it's about

🎇Exciting news🎇
COINN has launched the Community of Neonatal Nursing Practice (CoNP) working group in Zambia and Kenya!

Read to learn more about the latest milestones for the future of neonatal health in these communities. bit.ly/4aeC040

👶 EN-MINI:
Finally, tools for combating newborn deaths are here!

Scientists @Ifakarahealth – Donat Shamba, Jacqueline Minja, and Josephine Shabani - in collaboration with partners from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, icddr,b and Data for Impact (D4I) have produced a policy brief unveiling innovative solutions to

🌟 Join us for the 3rd webinar of 2024 by NEST360 & UNICEF! Explore the power of data and dashboards in driving quality improvement on newborn wards. #PartnersForChange

🗓️ April 9
🕑 14:00 – 15:00 CET
📍 Virtual

pmnch.who.int/news-and-event…

International Pediatric Association COINN ICN

You can listen back to this episode of The Global Neonatal Podcast featuring Prof Joy Lawn, Mbozu Grace, Lauren Allison, Ben Courchia MD and Shelly-Ann Dakari discussing The Newborn Toolkit here 👉the-incubator.org/post/182-globa…

We're collaborating with The Incubator Podcast on a brand new Global Neonatal Podcast! This podcast is committed to showcasing the remarkable work being done to improve neonatal care globally🌍🚼.

Find out more here 👉 newborntoolkit.org/news/the-globa…

Congratulations Eng.Millicent Alooh, HSC!!!!

We are delighted to reveal the shortlist for Leader of the Year sponsored by Reddie & Grose. Congratulations to Millicent Alooh NEST360, Pradeep Goel Solve.Care, Zen Koh FourierExo and Muxin Ma Pontosense. Read more about the shortlisted leaders here: htworld.co.uk/news/four-insr…

“Each year an estimated 2.3 million newborns die in the first 28 days of life. Most of these deaths are preventable” Find out how the team NEST360 World Health Organization (WHO) Eric Ohuma Prof Joy Lawn James Henry Cross Rebecca are working to address this major problem

*NEW TOOL* for health facility assessment of small and sick newborns. Great partnerships and collaboration as part of NEST360 Alliance NEST360 Prof Joy Lawn James Henry Cross Rebecca Kortum Alan Penzias pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38454369/

And a follow up paper on development of two scoring approaches for health facility assessments: Standards based approach on health system building blocks AND WHO level-2 + scoring
NEST360
Prof Joy Lawn Rebecca Kortum Alan Penzias
James Henry Cross pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38475761/