A Grand Challenges Africa Funding Opportunity: Using Data to Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Using Data to improve Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health: A Grand Challenges Africa Funding Opportunity
13 March 2019 | Nairobi, Kenya
Globally, there is an ongoing burden of 5.4 million deaths annually, that includes neonatal deaths (2.5 million), stillbirths (2.6 million), and maternal deaths (0.3 million). Africa, with only 17% of the world’s population, carries nearly half of this burden with 2.3 million deaths per year. Based on current trends, most African countries may possibly not meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’ target of 12 or fewer neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births and are also at risk of missing targets for maternal mortality reduction.
The African Academy of Sciences (The AAS), the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Knowledge Integration (Ki) initiative are collaborating to fund research that will use existing data to better understand risk factors for poor maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) outcomes in Africa. The call for proposals titled: Data science approaches to improve maternal, neonatal and child health in Africa opens today, 13 March 2019 and will close on 26 April 2019, 1700hrs EAT/2000hrs GMT.
