Two Faculty Receive Grant to Work with Africare

Dr. Jody Lori and Dr. Carol Boyd received a USAID/Child Survival Grant to work with Africare, a leader in development assistance and humanitarian aid to Africa and the oldest, largest African-American led nongovernmental organization. The 4-year project, “Innovation, Research, Operations, and Planned Evaluation for Mothers and Children (I-ROPE),” will take place in Liberia, West Africa. I-ROPE evaluates maternity waiting homes, developing interventions that increase the 1) availability of mother/child health services, 2) number of facility-based births, 3) attention paid to pre-/post-natal care, and 4) scientific evidence supporting a network of maternity waiting homes throughout Liberia.