Maternal Health in Developing Countries, Kibae Park United nations, 2010, Unmodified
Approximately 17,000 children die worldwide every day, 44% of which occur in the first month of life, often from preventable causes. Effective medical, behavioral, and social interventions exist, yet scalability – working across borders and sectors – remains a challenge. To nurture vulnerable children into healthy adulthood, we join global initiatives, such as those led by USAID, helping to deliver effective practices, to mothers, babies, and their caregivers in clinics and at home.
There is an urgent need to develop and scale medical, behavioral, and social interventions to prevent the preventable causes of child mortality. Our team brings together expertise from public health, pediatrics, development and behavioral economics, and the humanities. We are furthering novel and risky ideas to advance child survival: developing portable multimodal imaging for early detection of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy resulting from birth asphyxia and leading to mortality and disability, investigating opportunities to strengthen delivery of pediatric surgical services in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, developing and testing a novel technology to detect heart rate in non-breathing newborns, and unlocking social norms that influence family planning among adolescents.
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Elizabeth Borngraber
Clinical Research Coordinator
Surgery
Assistant Professor
Division of Health Services Policy and Practice, Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Associate Professor; Co-director, Community for Global Health Equity
Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
234 Farber Hall Buffalo, NY 14214-8001
Phone: 716-829-5340; Fax: 716-829-2979
Email: kkordas@buffalo.edu
107 Park Hall University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-4150
Email: rmuldoon@buffalo.edu
Director, MPH Concentration in Health Services Administration; Professor and Director, Division of Health Services Policy and Practice
Epidemiology and Environmental Health