Laerdal collaborated with the World Health Organisation to support in the expansion of a program which is already helping to save lives globally: Basic Emergency Care training. Find out how e-learning and a portable learning lab will enable this program to scale.

Joining over 1000 people, the LGH Tanzania Team attended the conference, showcasing solutions and taking part in two important abstract presentations.

Principle Investigator for the Safer Births program in Tanzania, and MD at Haydom Lutheran Hospital shares insights about his work, collaborating with LGH and his reflections on improving maternal and newborn health in Tanzania.

From presentations to key decision makers, to praise from a Nigerian Health Commissioner, strides are being made towards adoption of Safer Births Bundle of Care in Nigeria.

Referral hospitals in Eastern and Southern Africa are being transformed into Learning Hubs to enhance the skills of healthcare personnel in the region, improving the care mothers and newborns receive.

The implementation of the second phase of the Safer Birth Bundle of Care (SBBC) program in Tanzania has begun, reaching 152 hospitals across 5 regions with the aim of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality.

Laerdal Global Health has partnered with the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) with the aim of improving the quality-of-care mothers and newborns receive on the day of birth when having to undergo surgery.

As part of the business forum Laerdal Global Health’s CEO, Karoline Myklebust Linde, was invited to present about the organization with a focus on the work in Tanazania.

Laerdal Global Health solutions are now more accessible in Pakistan thanks to a new agreement signed with local distributor, Medinostic Healthcare.

Listen to Episode 16 of the One Million Lives podcast and learn more about Dr Nalini Singhal, renowned neonatologist and co-developer of the Helping Babies Survive program.

A conversation with Dr. Hege Langli Ersdal, MD, PhD, Stavanger University Hospital  

As part of a UNFPA led program that is helping to incorporate simulation training into Rwanda’s nursing and midwifery education system, eleven institutions in the country have received MamaBirthie and MamaNatalie Buy One, Gift One simulators.

For every birthing simulator bought through Laerdal Medical for use in a high-income country, another one is donated to a high impact partner project in a low-income country. So far, more than 7000 simulators have been donated in 40 countries.

Updates on Ethiopia's plans to improve outcomes for mothers and babies, including how the Saving Little Lives implementation fits into this.

A collaboration with One Heart Worldwide supported by simulators from the Buy One, Gift One program has reached nearly 800 midwives, strengthening newborn and maternal health care in rural Nepal.

Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health invited the Safer Births Consortium to share the results from the Safer Births Bundle of Care implementation in Tanzania, and to explore the possibility of bringing the program to Nigeria.

Key takeaways and highlights from the second Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Scientific Conference 2023 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Phase 1 of the Safer Births Bundle of Care, Tanzania program has concluded, and a formal agreement has been signed for a significant scale up of the program, beginning in 2024.

SimBegin trainings have taken place in Rwanda as part of the nationwide adoption of a simulation based approach to nursing and midwifery education.

Hands-on bootcamps upskill midwifery educators in three states across India, with plans to scale in 2024.

Small actions helping to keep premature babies alive in Ethiopia, including Baby Tseganesh Senato.

Laerdal Global Health and Laerdal Medical solutions are now more accessible in Ethiopia thanks to a new agreement signed with local distributor, Starchain Medical.

FIGO World Congress in Paris hosted WHO’s launch of a critical roadmap to tackle the leading cause of maternal death: postpartum hemorrhage (PPH).

More than 800,000 women and girls in Zanzibar lack access to high-quality health care resources that help them promote their health and prevent disease.

Laerdal Global Health and the American Academy of Pediatrics recently trained midwives from 15 healthcare facilities in South Sudan in Essential Newborn Care.

Nepal’s Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health Road Map 2030 aims to ensure a healthy life for, and the well-being of, all mothers and newborns.

High-quality simulation-based education helps increase the confidence of students and providers offering these services.

Strengthening midwifery education is essential for midwives to deliver high-quality care for women, newborns, and their families.

Tore Lærdal was awarded the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) Pioneer in Simulation Award at IMSH 2023.

Every year, 20 million babies are born prematurely or with low birthweight.  One million of these newborns die.

Continuous skin-to-skin contact between the mother (or caregiver) and the baby, improves survival and health outcomes among low birthweight infants.

Laerdal Global Health announced that several of their widely used silicone resuscitators and masks have achieved MDR approval.

Finding great potential for impact in partnership with WHO Academy.

In 2020 the Safer Births Bundle of Care (SBBC) was rated with the highest score among 320 proposals submitted in response to the GFF Innovation-to-Scale call.

When the Sustainable Development Goals were signed, few of us imagined that we would face the largest global public health challenge in more than a century.

Funded by the World Bank, the Saving Little Lives program will be implemented in 290 hospitals in Ethiopia accounting for 1.28 million births, every year.

Nepal's Ministry of Health will implement the Helping Babies Breathe and Helping Mothers Survive programs, nationally. 

A new partnership between Laerdal Global Health and Medela Cares has been established to reduce maternal and infant mortality in the Sub-Saharan Africa region.

Laerdal Global Health has been selected as 1 of 6 recipients of a grant from Innovation Norway to develop a digital solution that will help developing countries solve a health or education challenge.

Laerdal and GAVI, the global vaccine alliance, have signed a letter of intent to form a 3-year partnership.

The interactive report presents the activities and impact of the the 50,000 Happy Birthdays project in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania.

Five awardees announced for the Innovation-to-Scale initiative to scale up proven innovations for the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality around and just after birth

Laerdal received both the Design for Excellence Award AND the Honorary Award for Laerdal Global Health’s NeoBeat. The DOGA Honorary Award is the highest level of recognition awarded to particularly impressive projects that have received the DOGA Award.

A new training program to improve the quality of care for women and newborns developed by Jhpiego

We will be at Women Deliver, the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of women and girls in the 21st century.

Innovation-to-Scale: Call for Proposals for accelerated, high impact, and sustainable scale-up of innovations for saving mothers and newborns at birth

We want to thank all the customers of Laerdal Medical that have contributed to the Buy One Gift One campaign.

A multi-country study that aimed to generate high quality data about population-based rates, timing and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

A partnership that will take innovations to scale, for maternal and newborn health

Major Achievements of the Survive & Thrive Alliance: A 5-Year Report Guiding the Way Forward