CUGH hosts webinar with USAID April 14, 2011

Call with the Consortium for Global Health
April 14, 2011
Wendy TaylorSenior Advisor, Innovative FinanceUSAID

The Problem
A woman dies
from childbirth
every 2 minutes
The onset of labor marks start of high-risk period for mother and baby until at least 48 hours after birth. Each year –
150,000 maternal deaths
1.6 million neonatal deaths
1.2 million stillbirths
Majority of deaths in low and middle income countries – less than half of these mothers deliver in hospitals

The Saving Lives at Birth Partnership
CHALLENGE
To develop groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in rural, low-resource settings around the time of birth
This partnership will spark revolutionary advances that can dramatically reduce maternal and newborn deaths around the world.
- Secretary Hillary Clinton

The Challenge
We seek groundbreaking ideas
that can LEAPFROG conventional approaches in three areas…
technologies.
Roadblock: lack of medical technologies appropriate for the community or clinic setting
Target: bold ideas for science and technology advances that prevent, detect or treat maternal and newborn problems at the time of birth.
service delivery.
Roadblock: too few trained, motivated, equipped and properly located health staff and caregivers
Target: bold ideas for new approaches to high-quality care at the time of birth
demand.
Roadblock: mothers in resource-poor settings often lack information about services they need, what they can do, and benefits from accessing health care or adopting healthy behaviors.
Target: bold ideas for empowering and engaging pregnant women and their families

What We’re Looking For
Be"off the beaten track, ”daring in premise, and CLEARLY DIFFERENTIATED from standard practice
Enhance uptake, acceptability and provide for SUSTAINED USE of service
Enable or provide for LOW-COST solutions
Have a strong likelihood of achieving a SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT on one or more important adverse maternal, fetal, or neonatal health conditions
Be SCALABLE in resource-poor settings
Be able to be MONITORED, MEASURED and EVALUATED
SOLUTIONS SHOULD

Funding
GRANTS
$14M to support grants in the first round
SEED GRANTS to demonstrate proof of concept
Funding: $250K
Length of Award: Up to 2 years
Number of Awards: Up to 25
TRANSITION GRANTS to transition successful innovations toward scale up
Funding: $2Million
Length of Award: Up to 4years
Number of Awards: Up to 5
$50M to support multiple rounds over 5 years

Timeline
7
Application Period
Award Negotiation

Time and again, specific scientific, technological and operational breakthroughs have transformed insurmountable development challenges into solvable problems.
- Administrator Rajiv Shah, USAID
APPLICATIONS
DUE:
May 6, 2011
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