Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health

Augmented Infant Resuscitator

Reducing Maternal Mortality and Vertical HIV Transmission: The Saving Mothers and Babies Project - Mara Region, Tanzania

Franchise Model for India and Africa Expansion

Business Sustainability for Mobile Health: Audio-based Interfacing to Clinical Sensors

Private and public investors are injecting $2 million into a Canadian mobile health innovation that offers hope of preventing thousands of deaths and improving the health of expectant mothers, newborns and children throughout the developing world.

Quality improvement in public and proprietary clinics

An international group of public and private organizations is collaborating to accelerate development of an innovative heat-stable and low-cost, inhaled form of oxytocin to manage postpartum hemorrhage in resource-poor settings. The technology, originally developed at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is being licensed to GSK as part of a collaborative agreement to co-develop, register and distribute the product in regions of high maternal mortality.

In Cambodia, six in 10 women are anemic due to iron deficiency in their diets, causing premature labour, hemorrhaging during childbirth and the impaired brain development of their babies. Usually obtained through red meat or other iron-rich foods, a small chunk of iron added to water in the cooking pot can release a life-saving iron supplement. But attempts to persuade mothers to do so were unsuccessful.

The Indian construction industry is the second largest employer after agriculture and employs 30 million workers, of which two thirds are unskilled and over half live below the poverty line. 3 million children of migrant workers on construction sites are lacking services that provide access to adequate healthcare, nutrition, safe care, access to breastfeeding and basic stimulation and nurturing. These children end up on construction sites in India, invisible to businesses and governments.

Disability certification guidelines are a complex set of mathematical calculations, based on expert assessment of physical parameters and range of movements. This project proposes to develop a mobile application that can automate calculation, provide instant analysis, certify, link to customized benefits and continuously track the outcomes. The app brings inclusion and existing benefits to the doorstep of the end user.