Over the past seven years, Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development has mobilized the world’s brightest thinkers to develop low-cost and scalable solutions to save the lives of pregnant women and newborns in the hardest to reach corners of the world.
Now in its 8th call for solutions, Saving Lives at Birth invites innovators from around the world to apply. Specifically, we are looking to find maternal and newborn health solutions that have already demonstrated proof-of-concept and are on the path to scale. Given how close you are to innovator communities in Africa and around the world, we would be grateful for your help to make sure people are aware of the challenge and can submit their applications to USAID for funding consideration by February 28.
As you likely know, Saving Lives at Birth is a partnership between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Government of Norway (Norad), The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). As part of this year’s 8th call for submissions, Saving Lives at Birth is also launching its “next generation acceleration model.” Led by Duke University and VentureWell, innovators will receive short and long-term tailored support to help achieve sustainable and equitable scale.
Examples of innovations over the past seven years include:
SimPrints: A low-cost portable biometric scanner that includes software to allow mobile tools to instantly link a mother to her health records anytime, anywhere.
Uterine Tamponade Balloon: A next generation uterine balloon tamponade system to treat postpartum hemorrhage in Kenya and Sierra Leone. To date, Massachusetts General Hospitalhas introduced the device in over 550 facilities across these two countries and saved more than 400 lives.
Bempu Bracelet: A temperature-monitoring wristband enabling response to newborn hypothermia. The device has already helped an estimated 10,000 newborns and was named one of TIME's Top 25 Inventions of 2017.
BiliSpec: A low-cost, battery-powered reader designed by Rice University to diagnose jaundice by immediately quantifying serum bilirubin levels from a small drop of blood.
Please share this information about Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development within your network and encourage innovators to apply at the Saving Lives at Birth Web site by the February 28 deadline. It’s an easy step that could have a major impact.
-
- Active Topics
-
-
- by Eli 20 hours ago Iran Launches Retaliatory Attack Against Israel View the latest post Replies 20 Views 535
- by Eli 21 hours ago Re: What is in Your Mind? View the latest post Replies 677 Views 273389
- by Eli 1 day ago Russia Invades Ukraine View the latest post Replies 646 Views 210141
- by Eli 1 day ago Programmatically Move Files from One Folder to Another View the latest post Replies 6 Views 1334
- by Forbidden_Technology 3 days ago All in One: YouTube, TED, X, Facebook and Instagram Reels, Videos, Images and Text Posts View the latest post Replies 312 Views 8445
- by Eli 1 week ago Collection of Greatest Christian Hymns of all Times View the latest post Replies 33 Views 43495
- by Eli 1 week ago What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)? View the latest post Replies 2 Views 267
- by Eli 1 week ago Chat With ChatGPT - An Interactive Conversational AI View the latest post Replies 22 Views 24156
- by Eli 2 weeks ago Christian Podcasts View the latest post Replies 5 Views 28638
- by Eli 2 weeks ago Pondering Big Cosmology Questions Through Lectures and Dialogues View the latest post Replies 33 Views 45408
-
Opportunity: USAID Saving Lives at Birth, A Grand Challenge for Development
- Admin
- Site Admin
- Senior Expert Member
- Reactions: 56
- Posts: 383
- Joined: 10 years ago
- Has thanked: 38 times
- Been thanked: 32 times
- Contact:
0
TSSFL Stack is dedicated to empowering and accelerating teaching and learning, fostering scientific research, and promoting rapid software development and digital technologies
- Admin
- Site Admin
- Senior Expert Member
- Reactions: 56
- Posts: 383
- Joined: 10 years ago
- Has thanked: 38 times
- Been thanked: 32 times
- Contact:
USAID DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION VENTURES
"Open innovation inspires new solutions to the critical challenges affecting millions around the world. In the spirit of open innovation, DIV supports groundbreaking ideas to transform lives by providing flexible, tiered grant funding to test new ideas, take strategic risks, build evidence of what works, and advance the best solutions.
DIV funds innovations that demonstrate the three guiding principles of: rigorous evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and a viable pathway to scale and sustainability." Find out more: https://usaidinnovation.force.com/div/s/
"Open innovation inspires new solutions to the critical challenges affecting millions around the world. In the spirit of open innovation, DIV supports groundbreaking ideas to transform lives by providing flexible, tiered grant funding to test new ideas, take strategic risks, build evidence of what works, and advance the best solutions.
DIV funds innovations that demonstrate the three guiding principles of: rigorous evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and a viable pathway to scale and sustainability." Find out more: https://usaidinnovation.force.com/div/s/
0
TSSFL Stack is dedicated to empowering and accelerating teaching and learning, fostering scientific research, and promoting rapid software development and digital technologies
-
- Information
-
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests