In many places in the world, including in the United States, women and babies are dying unnecessarily from complications during childbirth because there are not enough health care providers or providers lack training and dedicated mentorship opportunities in maternal and newborn health care.
Our vision is that every nurse and midwife will have the skills to support women giving birth.
Our mission is to prevent complications and death during childbirth by both increasing the number of new nurses and midwives, and providing clinical and leadership training to those already working in high-risk communities.
We currently collaborate with Partners In Health (PIH) and GAIA Global Health in sub-Saharan Africa and CHOICES Center for Reproductive Health in Memphis, Tennessee. GAIN works with partners to equip nurses and midwives with the expertise and skills they need to save lives through:
Comprehensive curriculum delivery, including leadership and clinical training for safe childbirth.
Hands-on longitudinal bedside mentorship by expert nurse-midwives.
A UCSF support team to (1) analyze data on nurse-midwife clinical practices and mentorship activities and (2) track maternal and infant complications and deaths to observe project impact.
September 10, 2024 GAIN received another generous gift from the Wyss Medical Foundation to support the expansion of activities to another country in sub-Saharan Africa. We will continue our work with Partners In Health to improve maternal and neonatal health in Lesotho.
March 7, 2024 The third annual GAIN cross-site conference was held in San Francisco and Los Angeles this year, bringing together colleagues from Liberia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Memphis, and UCSF for a week of in-person collaboration and connection. In Los Angeles, we attended UC Global Health Dayat UCLA and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference.
April 4-8, 2023 In celebration of World Health Workers Awareness Week, GAIN co-director, Daniel Maweu, is pictured front page of an article highlighting the crucial role health workers play in ensuring human rights across the globe. Read more about why Health Workers are Human Rights Warriors.
January 23, 2023 Inspired by GAIN colleague Dr. Nikia Grayson who started the country's first Black midwifery fellowship at CHOICES in Memphis, UCSF developed a new Midwifery Mentoring and Belonging Program to diversify the midwifery workforce.
November 14, 2022 Strengthening our partnership with GAIA Global Health, 40 new students were inauguratedinto the Nursing Scholar Program at Mzuzu University in Mzimba District, Malawi. GAIN is funding two-year scholarships to upgrade students’ qualifications from diploma to bachelor-level nurse-midwives.
September 7, 2022 UCSF establishes a Center for Global Nursingto encourage collaboration among UCSF nurses and facilitate innovative global health solutions.
April 13, 2022 This year, GAIN and GAIA Global Health teamed up to provide 100 nursing scholarships to new and upgrading nurse midwives. Read more about our continued partnership in GAIA Global Health's 2021 Annual Report.
December 17, 2021 "From sub-Saharan Africa to Tennessee, Kimberly Baltzell champions nurses and midwives." Read the featured story on our GAIN director, Dr. Kimberly Baltzell, in the UCSF Alumni magazine.
October 10, 2021 GAIN cross-site lead, Daniel Maweu, publishes his article on Simple Education Interventions to Equip Nursing Students in Rural Liberia.
November 16, 2020 We need nurses on the COVID transition team, an op-ed piece by Dr. Stella Aguinaga Bialous and GAIN director, Dr. Kimberly Baltzell.
June 17, 2020 Listen to the first episode of Global Health in the Time of COVID with GAIN director, Dr. Kimberly Baltzell.
May 15, 2020 The World Needs 6 Million More Nurses: What Are We Waiting For? An editorial by Dr. Stella Aguinaga Bialous and GAIN director, Dr. Kimberly Baltzell.
November 8, 2019 Oveka Jana, a GAIN expert nurse mentor in Blantyre, Malawi, was invited to speak at the Women Leaders in Global Health Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. Listen to her speech on the importance of the midwife mentorship model.
January 8, 2018 "Malawi Program Making GAINs in Maternal Health." Read more about the beginnings of Global Action in Nursing (GAIN) project.
