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The NEST360° team is committed to scaling NEST across Africa to save 500,000 newborn lives every year. There has never been a better time to do this. The political resolve, both internationally and among African nations, to address neonatal deaths has never been strong...

The first clinical study of a low-cost, hand-held jaundice detector invented by Rice University students couldn’t have come at a better time for NEST360°, an international team of scientists, doctors and global health experts preparing for a Dec. 11 competition for $10...

NEST360°, a visionary 10-year effort to save the lives of 500,000 African babies per year, is a finalist for the MacArthur Foundation’s first $100 million 100&Change grant.

NEST360° is one of four 100&Change finalists named today by the foundation. One finalist will be...

Originally from: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-houston-doctors-african-challenge-1498238900

     Twelve years ago, Rebecca Richards-Kortum took a weeklong research trip to Malawi to see local hospitals and medical facilities. At one hospital, the bioengin...

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Picture: Candid photo of twin toddlers. Credit: Getty images

Local technology helps Malawi reduce childhood deaths by 72 per cent. It has been reducing its child mortality rates since 1990, through government funding...

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From: https://www.macfound.org/press/semifinalist-perspectives/hope-missing-link/

Every day I go to work and am faced with tiny babies in need of life-saving care. As a physician, I know how to best care for these small and sick newborns, but I have to watch them strugg...

From: http://www.houstonchronicle.com

When Emily Johnson walked across the stage Friday at Rice University's commencement, her mom Mary's face beamed with pride. This is the dream of mothers everywhere - to see their children finish college healthy, happy and ready to m...

From: https://www.macfound.org/press/semifinalist-perspectives/broken-warm-heart-africa/

My hardest months were spent watching my newborn daughter cling to life. Had she been born in Africa, she would not have survived.

In 2006, Rebecca Richards-Kortum and I traveled to...

Full article from: https://thebossmagazine.com/macarthur-foundation-100-million/

360˚ Institute for Global Health
The 360˚ Institute for Global Health from Rice University focus on the need for better care of newborns in third world countries, where basic health care is...

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HOUSTON - The Rice University Institute for Global Health is in the running for some big money that could help babies in need.

The department is up for a $100-million prize -- money they say would help them save babies in Malawi. The MacArthur Foundation searched...

From: http://www.chron.com/local/planet-texas/article/Rice-360-Institute-for-Global-Health-named-10934910.php

For the past decade, a committed group of scientists at Rice University have been working to help improve the survival outcomes of babies born in Africa by impr...

Global health program’s Africa project is 100&Change semifinalist

HOUSTON — (Feb. 15, 2017) — At current rates of progress, it will take more than 150 years before a baby born in Africa has the same chance of survival as one born in the United States, but an internation...

By Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Maria Oden and Kara Palamountain

November 18, 2016

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Richards-Kortum-Oden-Palamountain-All-babies-10624401.php

History shows that saving newborns is perhaps the most powerful key to initiati...

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2601108

At a time when budgets for science and global health seem under threat, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD, is doubling down on efforts to bring modern medicine to the developing world at a fraction of the cost. The Ric...