Lowering newborn deaths and serious illness in low-resource communities
Interventions to Reduce Infant Mortality and Morbidity in Low Resource Settings
This project uses practical childbirth and newborn care approaches to help reduce deaths and serious health problems for babies born in low-resource settings.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of Alabama at Birmingham NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Birmingham, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11372543 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
If you or your baby take part, the team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka will work with local hospitals and rural clinics where you give birth. They deliver and compare hands-on care steps around delivery and the early newborn period, collect basic health information, and keep in touch with families through active follow-up. The project enrolls pregnant people and newborns in defined community clusters and tracks outcomes like birth weight, infections, and survival. The aim is to identify simple, affordable practices that local clinics can use to prevent newborn deaths and severe illness.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are pregnant people and newborns receiving care at the partner hospitals and rural clinic clusters in Lusaka, Zambia, or similar low-resource communities.
Not a fit: People who are not pregnant or newborns, or those who live outside the participating areas and cannot access the partner sites, would not be able to participate or directly benefit.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, the work could lower newborn deaths and serious complications by identifying care practices that can be used in similar low-resource settings.
How similar studies have performed: Previous Global Network trials led by this team have changed practice and informed international guidelines, so related approaches have shown real-world benefits.
Where this research is happening
Birmingham, United States
- University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Carlo Font, Waldemar a. — University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Study coordinator: Carlo Font, Waldemar a.
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.