Programs and Partnerships

Strengthening Acute Care Systems

Time-critical emergencies are a major cause of death in low-resource countries. Learn how we're collaborating with partners to help scale up high-impact initiatives to improve the delivery of basic emergency care.

Safer Births

A research and development collaboration between Tanzania, Norwegian and other international research institutions to improve quality of intrapartum and newborn care.

Strengthening Healthcare Education

Every year, 140 million babies are born. To ensure these births are safe, the world needs 900,000 more midwives. Simulation-based education is part of the solution.

Supporting Health Personnel in Humanitarian Settings

To achieve the United Nations (SDG 3 targets related to improving newborn and maternal mortality, it is critical to improve access to quality care where it’s needed most.

Helping Mothers and Babies Survive

This is a learning portal where you can find digital resources by the APP, Jhpiego, and the World Health Organization related to program implementation.

Helping Babies Survive

The Helping Babies Survive suit of training programs provide health workers with skills to prevent and manage the leading causes of newborn deaths.

Helping Babies Breathe

Helping Babies Breathe is a training program that teaches the essential skills of caring for healthy babies and assisting babies that do not breathe on their own after birth.

Helping Mothers Survive

The Helping Mothers Survive suit of training programs provide health workers with skills to prevent and manage the leading causes of maternal deaths.

Buy One Gift One

For each birthing simulator purchased through Laerdal Medical for use in high-income countries, a second is distributed to support training in low-resource countries.

50,000 Happy Birthdays

A program to train, equip and support birth attendants on life-saving interventions on the day-of-birth with the goal of helping save 50,000 more lives.

Sexual and Reproductive Health

We support the Family Planning 2020 vision initiative through our training solution the Uterus Collection, consisting of Mama-U and Sister-U.

Survive & Thrive

Survive & Thrive is a partnership established to energize critical health care intervention during pregnancy through childbirth, and childhood through age five.