STORIES AND NEWS
Stories, News, and More
Read the latest stories, and news from the NEST360 Alliance of experts who advance quality newborn care through innovation, policy, and education.
Research explores the impact of preterm birth perceptions in Ethiopia Researchers, including NEST360 partners in Ethiopia, recently published a work examining the beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes surrounding preterm births in Ethiopia by applying a socioecological...
Kenya Launches Newborn Investment Case to Accelerate Newborn Health Gains On 14th November 2025, the Ministry of Health, together with partners and newborn health stakeholders, officially launched the Kenya Investment Case for Small and Sick Newborns, a comprehensive,...
NEST360 releases the 2025 Newborn & Maternal Technology Landscape NEST360 researchers have announced the Newborn Technology Landscape | 2025 Edition. The updated Newborn & Maternal Technology Landscape provides an open-access, interactive database of over 130...
NEST360 Research identifies affordable glucometers for use with newborns NEST360 researchers published their findings from a study to systematically evaluate the accuracy and reliability of 11 commonly available point-of-care glucometers to determine which could be...
NEST360 Research Presentation at ISQua 2025 in BrazilQuality Improvement Approach to Improving Newborn Care NEST360 team members, Nebiyou Hailemariam, Hannah Mwaniki, and Kylie Dougherty recently attended the 2025 International Society for Quality in Health Care...
World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) marked each year on 17 September, calls for global solidarity and concerted action by all countries and international partners to improve patient safety. This year’s slogan, “Patient safety from the start!”, emphasizes the urgent need...
Across Africa and beyond, newborn care is being reimagined. At the Council of International Neonatal Nurses (COINN) and the African Neonatal Association (ANA) conferences in August, healthcare professionals, researchers, academicians, global experts, advocates, and...
BMJ Quality & Safety posted a conversation with NEST360 alliance member, Dr. Kylie Dougherty, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and new Nurse Scientist at Nationwide Children's Hospital Center for Nursing Excellence,...
Target Product Profile for in vitro diagnostic tests for bacterial infection A Target Product Profile (TPP) for in vitro diagnostic tests for serious bacterial infection, including neonatal sepsis, among infants aged 0–59 days, is now available on the WHO...
NEST360 has published an Oxygen Cylinder Safety Guidelines job aid outlining the correct handling of oxygen cylinders to prevent major accidents and harm to patients and staff in the hospital. The guideline includes a link to an oxygen cylinder safety video prepared...
NEST360 researchers published a paper in BMC Pediatrics on the evaluation of commercial point-of-care glucometers for detecting and monitoring of neonatal hypoglycemia in resource-constrained settings. According to the UNICEF | NEST360 Target Product Profile for...
NEST360 researchers published a paper in BMC Global Public Health titled "From warehouse to ward: applying implementation research methods to the device identification, qualification, distribution, and management process within the Newborn Essential Solutions and...
NEST360 published a change package to support quality improvements in hospital-based newborn care, adding to the library of global public goods and online resources from NEST360. The NEST360 change package is a collection of evidence-informed knowledge, resources, and...
NEST360 updated its content for Generic Instructor Course (GIC) and Training of Trainers (TOT) materials. The GIC is designed to train potential instructors in how to teach providers course material. The principles of how to teach adults in different learning...
On this year’s International Day of the Midwife, we spotlighted the voices of dedicated midwives, both men and women sharing in the profession dedicated to saving lives of moms and babies. Midwives bridge maternal and newborn care in our hospitals. In their words,...
A group photo featuring participants, the Kano State Director of Medical Services (Dr. Shehu Abdullahi), Kano State Director of Public Health (Dr. Ibrahim Umar), Permanent Secretary of Kano State Ministry of Health (Pharm. Aminu Bashir), and facilitators from NEST360...
We are pleased to announce a new NEST360 governance structure (Figure 1), which includes the NEST360 Steering Committee and the newly formed NEST360 Technical Advisory Team (TAT), with support from program managers. Alongside NEST360’s country and multi-disciplinary...
Here we are in 2024, and while NEST360 teams continue to build on activities started in Phase 1, it is a great time to look at all we have accomplished thus far through the combined individual contributions of our vast team. Only seven years ago, NEST360 came away...
On Tuesday, January 23, 2024, the NEST360 alliance gathered at Rice University in Houston, Texas, to officially announce a $65 million commitment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, The ELMA Foundation, and generous...
