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.
