Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: How to Bend the Curve on Newborn Mortality — Key Learnings from Uganda
Peter Waiswa, Ugandan medical doctor and health systems researcher; Stefan Swartling Peterson, public health physician and professor of Global Health at Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet, and Makerere University; and Mariam Claeson, director of the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation discuss the launch of a special issue on newborn health in Global Health Action. The study “share[s] the experience of how to scale up a cost-effective package of newborn care that involves families, community health workers, and health facilities” in Uganda (3/31).