Emory University Receives $ 180 Million Grant From Gates Foundation

Emory University announced today that the Global Monitoring Network for Childhood Health and Prevention (CHAMPS), based at the Emory Global Health Institute, has received the largest grant ever awarded to University. Launched in 2015, CHAMPS collects and badyzes data to help identify causes of infant mortality in areas where it is highest. This latest supplement of $ 180 million brings the total investment of $ 271 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to FIELDS and demonstrates its position as an essential tool for preventing child mortality worldwide. .

"Emory's leadership in the CHAMPS program exemplifies the commitment we have to leverage our world-clbad research, education, and healthcare capabilities to have global impact," said Emory. said Claire E. Sterk, president of Emory University. "The Gates Foundation's historic investment will not only change the lives of children around the world, it will also promise to provide our faculty, researchers, and students with unique opportunities in life." further improve the reduction of the infant mortality rate in the world. "

CHAMPS partners include the International Association of National Institutes of Public Health (IANPHI), whose US office is also based at the Emory Global Health Institute, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Institute Barcelona for Global Health (ISGlobal) and Public. Institute of Health Informatics, a program of the working group on global health. CHAMPS depends on partnerships with a diverse group of research institutes, universities and ministries of health in the seven countries where it currently operates.

"5.4 million children die each year from largely preventable causes, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia," said Robert F. Breiman, executive director of the Emory Global Health Institute. and principal investigator for CHAMPS. "CHAMPS is supported by various partnerships with research institutes, universities and ministries of health in the countries we work in. The innovative monitoring and badysis conducted by CHAMPS and its partners will catalyze interventions. based on evidence at the local, national and global levels that we believe can save the lives of millions of children. "

CHAMPS has established sites in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and South Africa, and will add two more in the next phase of the program. CHAMPS is working with governments and national public health institutes to prepare for the use of CHAMPS results to better understand and prevent the specific causes of the disease in children under five. The open and inclusive FIELD approach to data sharing is designed to stimulate and incorporate new creative ideas to prevent child mortality.

"Since its inception, CHAMPS has set new standards for data sharing," said Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, vice president of Emory University for Global Health. "CHAMPS aims to bring to the world the knowledge it needs to catalyze actions to dramatically reduce the number of deaths and disabilities in childhood."

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