Principal Investigator Richard Fletcher
Among the eight international development "Millennium Goals" established by the United Nations in 2000, two main goals are reducing child mortality and improving maternal health. I work with the Global Health Division at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as D-Lab at MIT to develop and deploy a variety of technology tools that can improve the lives of pregnant mothers, newborn infants, and young children. These tools range from simple health education to mobile diagnostic tools for use by health workers in rural primary clinics. I would like to also acknowledge the MIT MISTI-India program for providing some seed grant funds to help catalyze some of these projects and enable me to travel to many locations in the field.