The Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research (Global Network) is a partnership dedicated to improving maternal and child health outcomes and building health research capacity in resource-poor settings by testing cost-effective, sustainable interventions that provide guidance for the practice of evidence-based medicine. This unique collaboration includes 8 multidisciplinary research sites and a Data Coordinating Center. Scientific oversight for the Global Network comes from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which is part of the National Institutes of Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Our Brochure
To improve maternal and child survival, the Global Network research focuses on high-need areas, such as preventing life-threatening obstetric complications, modifying childbirth practices, improving infant birth weight and nutrition, and reducing prematurity and complications from preterm delivery in rural and peri-urban communities. Scientists from developing countries, together with peers in the United States, lead teams that address priority research needs through randomized clinical trials and implementation research conducted in low-resource areas.
Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa Site PI: Antoinette Tshefu, Kinshasa School of Public Health US PI: Carl Bose, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenya, Eldoret Site PI: Fabian Esamai, Moi University US PI: Ed Liechty, Indiana University
Zambia, Lusaka Site PI: Elwyn Chomba, University Teaching Hospital US PI: Wally Carlo, University of Alabama Birmingham
Guatemala, Guatemala City Site PI: Ana Garces, Institute of Nutrition of Central America And Panama (INCAP) US PI: Nancy Krebs, University of Colorado Denver
Bangladesh, Dhaka Site PI: Rashidul Haq, icddr,b US PI: Bill Petri, University of Virginia
India, Belagavi Site PI: Shiva Goudar, KLE University US PI: Richard Derman, Thomas Jefferson University
India, Nagpur Site PI: Archana Patel, Lata Medical Research Foundation (LMRF) US PI: Pat Hibberd, Boston University
Pakistan, Karachi Site PI: Sarah Saleem, The Aga Khan University US PI: Robert Goldenberg, Columbia University