1 May 2013

Survive and Thrive: Professional Associations, Private Sector and Global Health Scholars Saving Mothers, Newborns and Children is a unique and historic global development alliance (GDA) to improve survival rates for women and children around the world. The alliance will mobilize U.S. obstetric, pediatric and midwifery professional associations alongside the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), private sector, and civil society organizations in a first of its kind partnership to improve the quality of facility-based maternal, newborn and child health services to reduce preventable maternal and child deaths.

Survive and Thrive draws upon the resources and expertise of some of the most respected United States and global organizations in maternal and child health. The alliance aims to energize critical health care interventions during the time when mothers and their children are most vulnerable—from pregnancy through childbirth, and childhood through age five. The partnership will expand clinical competencies among health professionals who:

• Care for women, newborns and children;
• Scale up quality improvement processes and approaches;
• Bring affordable technologies and innovative educational materials and products to health professionals and their patients;
• Accelerate efforts to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of these programs so that they can be scaled accordingly; and
• Create learning opportunities for emerging global health leaders.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Nurse-Midwives, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Johnson & Johnson, Laerdal Global Health, NICHD, Jhpiego,  Save the Children, and MCHIP have signed on to the partnership initiated by the USAID to increase the availability of high-quality, high-impact maternal, newborn and child health services in health facilities around the world.

To learn more about the alliance, click here.


Mandy Hovland
MCHIP Senior Program Coordinator