During the WHO’s 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa and Proximie Global Health signed a Memorandum of Understanding, convened under the auspices of the Health Innovation Exchange and supported by Amazon Web Services through the Proximie x AWS Social Responsibility and Impact Initiative.

Witnessed by a remarkable convening of multilateral, continental, regional and national leaders who then sat together for a closed leadership roundtable, the signing and discussion brought together Dr. Pavel Ursu, WHO Country Representative for Nigeria, H.E. Governors Stephen Sang of Nandi County and Muthomi Njuki of Tharaka-Nithi County, Dr. Abas Hassen of Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health, Ms. Mary Mwiti, Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Governors of Kenya, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, National Lead and Coordinator of Nigeria’s Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Reduction Innovation Initiative (MAMII), Dr. Michael Mwachiro of the Surgical Society of Kenya, Professor Joseph Adelegan of Partners in Population and Development, Dr. Patty Mechael of health.enabled, Claire Lachance of ReSurge International, Kat Esser of Amazon Web Services, and Laura Ferguson of the University of Southern California (USC), each representing a dimension of the global and local commitment this partnership demands.

Phase one commits to establishing a digital simulation hub at WBFA’s Lagos Centre of Excellence in association with the Wellbeing Africa Institute of Research and Development, integrated within the Advanced Obstetric Surgical Skills and Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care programming WBFA and WAIRD delivers, with live expert training, recorded cases for faculty-led debrief, and a bi-directional learning loop so that what trainees encounter in their home facilities reshapes the next training cycle, with fewer maternal and newborn deaths as the measure of its success.

Proximie and the Wellbeing Foundation Africa believe no clinician should have to learn alone. This week, that mission moved closer to the mothers and newborns it exists to serve.

 

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