From: 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 the country for the most ambitious projects with the largest impact, and discovered one right here in the lab at Rice. The Institute for Global Health is preventing 85 percent of neo-natal deaths in Malawi by h

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 improving basic neonatal technology in hospitals. That work, led by recent MacArthur "genius" grant winner Rebecca Richards-Kortum, has picked up many accolades over the years, and it appears the Rice 360 Institut

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 international team of global health experts has mapped out a plan to do it in 10 years. All it needs to get started is $100 million. The Rice University-based team’s odds of getting the money increased to one-in-eight wit