Research & Development Projects

GAPPS is helping to promote the use of existing, low-cost solutions that can save millions of lives now, as well as helping to find answers that can save more lives in the future. Below are examples of some of our recent R&D projects to identify diagnostic, prevention and treatment strategies for prematurity and stillbirth.

• Global report on preterm birth & stillbirth: the foundation for innovative solutions and improved outcomes (published February 23, 2010)
• Intergrowth 21st (ongoing): Collaborating with the University of Oxford and the University of Washington on fetal and newborn growth research (ongoing)
• Clinical Site Evaluation Project in India and Bangladesh(in progress): This newly funded project will determine the research capacity in low-resource settings to collect, process and store data and samples from pregnant women and newborns
• Perinatal Intervention Program: Collaborating with PATH (in progress): Collaborating with PATH to explore opportunities to provide healthcare practitioners with evidence-based, cost-effective, and culturally-appropriate solutions to prematurity and stillbirth
• Research on maternal and newborn infections (in progress)