The Saving Lives at Birth (SL@B) partners thank you for supporting the 8th annual Saving Lives at Birth DevelopmentXChange. This two-day event convened more than 700 global experts and 52 innovators from around the world to develop and scale interventions for improving maternal and newborn survival in poor, hard-to-reach communities. On July 26th, we hosted a plenary featuring stories from the frontlines of care and a live pitch competition among several of our current grantees, who presented their ideas to investors and a panel of judges. The day culminated with a performance of scenes from the Ensemble Studio Theater mainstage production of BUMP, a play inspired by Jorge Odón, creator of the SL@B-funded Odon Device.
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| USAID joined forces with GlaxoSmithKline and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management to launch the GSK | Kellogg | USAID Global Health Case Competition. This first-of-its-kind competition targets business and public health graduate students to identify sustainable solutions to global health challenges, helping to build and connect future generations of global business leaders and save lives. Learn more. |  |
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| NPR published a piece on Jorge Odón, the Argentinian car mechanic who created the Odon Device to address maternal and newborn deaths associated with prolonged or complicated second-stage labor. The device received Saving Lives at Birth funding for development and testing by the WHO and was licensed by Becton, Dickinson & Co. |  |
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| The 8th annual SL@B DevelopmentXChange included more than 200 curated partnering and mentoring meetings for SL@B innovators, representing over 40 organizations. These SL@B mentors shared their ideas with VentureWell, an Accelerating SL@B partner, on practical ways that innovators can leverage a single, initial mentor session to gain a much-needed support network. Read more. |  |
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| Smithsonian Magazine featured WeRobotics, a Combating Zika and Future Threats Grand Challenge innovator, and its work in partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Brazil to test a mechanism that releases sterile mosquitoes from unmanned aerial vehicles. This method of vector control aims to reduce the number of mosquitoes carrying infectious diseases such as Zika. Read the article. |  |
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| Each year, the Saving Lives at Birth DevelopmentXChange hosts a live pitch competition. At this year’s pitch competition, 10 of the most promising innovators and current SL@B grantees were invited to present their concepts, which have the potential to drastically reduce maternal and newborn mortality. The 10 finalists were selected from a highly competitive pool of nearly 500 applications. Read more from this NPR article. |  |
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 | ADAM LEWIS, Director, Communications & Marketing at Gradian Health Systems“In July 2017, we won a Saving lives at Birth Transition to Scale grant for a project centered around our Universal Anaesthesia Machine to strengthen emergency childbirth care in Zambia, which we have been implementing with our local partners ever since.” |
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