• WHO WE ARE
  • THE MANDATE APPROACH AND GOAL
  • TEAM MEMBERS
  • ADVISORY BOARD
• MORTALITY DATA
• TECHNOLOGY
  • TECHNOLOGY BRIEFS
  • TECHNOLOGIES IN DEVELOPMENT
  • SUBMIT A TECHNOLOGY
• MODEL

THE MANDATE APPROACH AND GOAL

MANDATE's comprehensive approach comprises three teams:

• The clinical team will first identify where and why pregnancy-related deaths occur and what interventions are likely to save the most lives by patient, region, and setting.
• The technology team will then identify and evaluate existing technologies associated with each intervention.
• The modeling team will quantify how potential new technologies might impact the number of lives saved, and how variable parameters may influence utilization and outcomes.

Team members include RTI economists, epidemiologists and engineers, as well as consultants and subcontractors, including Dr. Robert Goldenberg, an obstetrician with broad clinical and research experience in low-resource settings; Dr. Alan Jobe, a neonatologist with extensive research experience in newborn health; and Applied Strategies, a company with broad experience developing models for global health applications. MANDATE also will utilize the input from key frontline practitioners in India and sub-Saharan Africa.

To provide valuable guidance to the project, MANDATE includes an Advisory Group with expertise in maternal and neonatal health, technology development and implementation, modeling, and philanthropy.

MANDATE's overarching goal is to produce an interactive, computer-based, quantitative model that compares the potential number of lives saved across maternal and neonatal technologies. Users will be able to identify and isolate the potential impact of a technology by patient category, region, and setting. The tool will be available for public use free of charge.