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 and Dr. Alan Jobe, a neonatologist with extensive research experience in newborn health. MANDATE also utilizes input from key frontline practitioners in India and sub-Saharan Africa.
MANDATE included an Advisory Group with expertise in maternal and neonatal health, technology development and implementation, modeling, and philanthropy.
MANDATE includes an interactive, computer-based, quantitative model that compares the potential number of lives saved across maternal and neonatal technologies. Users can identify and isolate the potential impact of a technology by patient category, region, and setting. The tool is available for public use free of charge.