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19 Nominees Announced in the “Savings Lives at Birth: Grand
Challenges for Development”
July 29th, 2011
Yesterday, 19 award nominees were announced at a high-level forum at the Savings Lives at Birth DevelopmentxChange
awards ceremony. Sponsored by USAID, the Government of Norway, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The World
Bank, and Grand Challenges Canada, the “Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development” competition called
out to the global community to submit proposals for innovations that would help save the lives of mothers and babies
through three key areas: technology, service delivery, and demand.
More than 600 submissions were reviewed by the Grand Challenges Committee and 77 finalists were selected to present in
the DevelopmentxChange Marketplace this week. The 19 award nominees announced yesterday will go on to a final
negotiation period before the seed grant awards will be decided. Seed grants of up to $250,000 each will be given to
demonstrate proof of concept for an innovation and grants of up to $2 million each will be awarded for scale-up transition
innovations.
Additionally, two honorary awards were announced. The Peer Choice Award went to Monash University for its Low-cost,
Needle-Free and Non-refrigerated treatment for PPH. The innovation transforms oxytocin, a refrigerated injectable drug
used to treatment post-partum hemorrhage (PPH), into an inhalable substance that does not need a cold chain or needles
for injection. The People’s Choice Award went to the UCSF Bixby Center and ARMMAN for Project mMitra: Voice
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Messaging and Animation Service to Improve MCH information access in rural India. This free mobile voice messaging and
animated film service will provide culturally and language appropriate information for moms during the prenatal period.
At the opening of the forum with USAID Administrator Raj Shah, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized that
“grand challenges should not stop with the announcement of winners.” She urged all innovators to “keep going with these
ideas and USAID will help develop and scale them to continue to improve and save the lives of women and newborns
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Check out the Seed Grant Award Nominees:
1. Simulation Based Training for Emergency Cesarean Section – Operative Experience, Inc.
2. Applying low cost health and information technologies at the community and clinic level in rural India – Health Point
Services
3. Development of Low-Cost, Bubble CPAP Kit and Oxygen Blender - PATH
4. Primary Prevention of Periodontal Disease in Relation to Preterm Birth in Malawi – Baylor College of Medicine
5. Addressing the Fourth Delay: Improving Community Based Accountability for MNH - Moi University School of
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6. Low-cost, needle-free, and non-refrigerated treatment for PPH – Monash University
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7. E-Partogram – Jhpiego Corporation
8. Anti-retroviral Pouch for PMTCT During Home Birth – Duke University
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9. Use of mobile technology and pay-it-forward business model – Zoe Alexander Ltd.
10. PIERS on the move: Pre-eclampsia Integrated Estimate of Risk assessment on a mobile phone – University of British
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11. ACT for Birth, Uganda (A= Audit, C= cell phones, T = Technology and training) – Save The Children
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12. Baby Monitor: Connecting Women and Infants to Care – Population Council
13. A simple, rapid assessment tool to identify and triage preterm infants – Johns Hopkins University
14. Odon Device for Assisted Vaginal Delivery – World Health Organization
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15. Low-Cost, Point-of-Care, Paper-based Microfluidic Diagnostics – Diagnostics For All, Inc.
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16. Sustainable Access to Maternal/Newborn Services: A Market Approach – Partners for Development
17. Prenatal calcium to prevent preeclampsia and pre-term birth in resource- poor rural settings – The Hospital for Sick
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19. Low-Cost Respiratory Support: Reducing Early Neonatal Death in Rural Malawi – William Marsh Rice University
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