One important feature of our newborn care videos is the use of illustrations and brief animations that highlight key teaching points. When we began the post-production process for our first set of videos, we were fortunate to have Lorelei Pepi join our team. Lorelei is an international award-winning independent animator who now teaches at the […]

We are now in post-production of a third of the 35 vignettes in our newborn care series.  These videos focus on newborn skills and management of newborn problems, and are based on filming at two of our international clinical sites. In April, we partnered with the Maternal and Newborn Centers of Excellence Program in the Dominican […]

UNICEF News Note Dakar/Geneva; October 11, 2011 UNICEF fights “one of the worst ever” cholera outbreaks in West and Central Africa UNICEF is calling for a redoubling of efforts to combat cholera outbreaks that are claiming lives and affecting large numbers of people across West and Central Africa. This year has seen more than 85,000 reported cases of […]

The Guardian Sarah Boseley; August 31, 2011 Newborn deaths put millennium development goal under threat As more older children survive, slower progress in cutting death rates among babies in the first weeks of life is putting the goal of reducing child deaths by two-thirds in jeopardy Children under the age of five are increasingly likely to survive in poor […]

Press Release from the Center for Economic and Policy Research Date:  August 18, 2011 Contact:  Dan Beeton, 202-239-1460 Web address:  http://www.cepr.net/index.php/press-center/ Thousands of Lives Could Be Saved, and Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic Managed, With Greater Treatment and Prevention Efforts, CEPR Paper Finds Recent Cholera Spike Was “Entirely Predictable,” Yet Treatment Efforts Fell Off Washington, D.C.  A new paper from the Center for Economic […]

When the cholera epidemic struck Haiti in October 2010, we quickly began working on a film that would educate people as to how cholera is transmitted, how people could protect themselves from the disease, and what steps to take if they did get sick. Our goal was to convey reliable information with simple visual messages […]

In April, cameras started rolling for our newborn care video pilot project in the Dominican Republic. This effort was the result of months of careful planning and preparation and assisted by continued donor support. Site assessments were conducted in 2010 and after making a successful connection with Carlos J. Cuellar, MD, Chief of Party of […]

From the Burlington (VT) Free Press — 12/13/2010 “Waitsfield’s Deborah Van Dyke has been fighting for global health care change since 1989. Having worked internationally — much of the time with Doctors Without Borders, Van Dyke has seen many lives lost needlessly due to lack of health care knowledge. “She decided to take action and […]

Julio Frenk is Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. November 2010 — In the video above, HSPH Dean Julio Frenk answers questions about a new commission report that calls for major reform in the training of doctors and other healthcare professionals to equip them for the 21st century. (8:19) The Lancet press release […]

Although the need for improved health care in the developing world has been recognized at the highest administrative levels, little progress has been made in reaching frontline providers who are crucial to this effort. In September 2000, world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce […]