PRONTO partnered with the University of Utah’s College of Nursing to bring 10 Tanzanian nurses to participate in simulation facilitation training from June 14 to June 19, 2015 in Utah. Susanna Cohen, co-founder of PRONTO International, and associate professor in the University of Utah’s College of Nursing explains, “We started out with the nurses experiencing a […]
Read MorePRONTO’s Founder Dilys Walker on Family Planning
PRONTO International’s co-founder who is an Obstetrician Gynecologist and Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive at the University of California San Francisco, was published on ‘Big Think’ an education media website. Read what Dilys had to say here.
Read MorePRONTO’s PartoPants™ featured in El Pais article
PRONTO’s PartoPants™, a low-cost birthing simulator, were featured in an article, “Three Innovations that Can Save the Lives of Pregnant Mothers and their Babies,” by the Spanish newspaper El Pais. The article was published before the Demand Solutions: Ideas for Improving Lives conference held November 15-16 in Buenos Aires. Dr. Dilys Walker, PRONTO’s co-founder and board president, presented at the conference. The translated […]
Read MorePRONTO featured on Jacaranda Health’s Blog
Check out a new blog post on Jacaranda Health’s blog! PRONTO and JH partnered to integrate PRONTO’s simulation and team training approach into a Nurse Champion Program at public health facilities in Kenya. Nurse Champions are leading weekly PRONTO simulation scenarios between September and December 2016 at their respective facilities with support from Jacaranda Health staff. Simulation […]
Read MorePRONTO Featured in Women Deliver’s Solutions Panorama
PRONTO International attended the Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen in May 2016. Women Deliver brings together diverse voices and interests to drive progress and investment in the health, rights and wellbeing of girls and women. The first Women Deliver conference was in 2007, and the organization took their commitment one step further in 2016 by shaping […]
Read MorePRONTO Featured in Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Video
Check out this video produced by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) highlighting CARE and PRONTO’s work in Bihar. The video describes the mobile nurse mentoring program in which teams of Nurse Midwife Mentors (NMM) visit Primary Health Centers (PHCs) one week each month for a period of six to eight months to improve […]
Read MoreInternational Day of the Midwife 2016 – Insights from Bihar
Each year, the 5th of May is dedicated to midwives around the world. Midwives that birth thousands of babies, take care of mothers, and save lives. On this day, we celebrate successes in maternal and child health worldwide. Successes that couldn’t be possible without midwives. We also use this day as a reminder that all […]
Read MoreSaving Lives at Birth in Guatemala – A Global Health Frontiers Series Segment Featuring PRONTO
PRONTO is excited and honored to have its work in Guatemala featured on the Global Health Frontiers Series. In 2012 PRONTO was awarded a Saving Lives at Birth grant to implement a quality of care improvement initiative in a region of Guatemala known as the “Corridor of Death.” This region has the worst statistics for […]
Read MorePRONTO Co-Founder Speaks at Simulation Conference!
This year, a team of PRONTO International representatives attended the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH). IMSH is the world’s largest gathering of healthcare simulation professionals and explores the latest innovations and best practices in healthcare simulation. The conference, held from January 16-20, 2016, focused on offering participants insight into the latest simulation research, strategies […]
Read MorePRONTO’s work featured on Huffington Post!
PRONTO International is excited to have our work highlighted in the Huffington Post! Written by Reiner Lomb and co-authored by Udaiyan Jatar, both of Blue Earth Network, the authors highlight PRONTO’s ability to scale innovative simulation training techniques to a large implementation project in Bihar, India. The article highlights how PRONTO took the major factors common […]
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