Our international team brings a diversity of expertise to the complexities of reducing neonatal mortality.

NEST360° (Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies) includes members from 3rd Stone Design; APIN Public Health Initiatives; Center for Public Health and Development; Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology; HATCH Technologies; Ifakara Health Institute; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Malawi University of Science & Technology; Northwestern University; Oxford KEMRI-Wellcome Trust; Rice 360° Institute for Global Health; University of Lagos; University of Ibadan; University of Malawi, College of Medicine; and University of Malawi, The Malawi Polytechnic. 

The NEST360° funders include the John D. and Catherine T.  MacArthur Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The ELMA Foundation, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, The Lemelson Foundation, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation, and individual donors. 

NEST360° is advised by a Funders Coordinating Committee (FCC), an external board representing its major funders.  FCC members include: Anne Magege (Chair), Jin Hong, June Lee (The ELMA Foundation); Hema Magge, Nicole Sirivansanti, Rasa Izadnegahdar (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation); Albert Manasyan, Mihretab Salasibew, Minnie Kibore, Sufia Askari (Children's Investment Fund Foundation); Cindy Cooper (The Lemelson Foundation); and Kristen Molyneaux (Lever for Change, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation).

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NEST360°  leverages a Strategic & Technical Advisory Group (STAG) for high-level guidance on strategy and implementation, engagement with the global newborn care community, and a support network for developing and scaling new technologies within existing programs seeking to achieve SDG3.2.  STAG members include: Anshu Banerjee (WHO); Zulfiqar A. Bhutta (International Pediatric Association); John Borrazzo (World Bank); Michael Free (Emeritus, PATH); Kristoffer Gandrup-Marino (UNICEF); Harry Gombachika (Malawi Telecommunications Limited & University of Malawi Polytechnic); Gagan Gupta (UNICEF); Rasa Izadnegahdar (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation); Lily Kak (USAID); Minnie Kibore (CIFF); Smita Kumar (USAID); Tore Laerdal (Laerdal); Charles Mwansambo (Malawi Ministry of Health); and Prosper Okonkwo (APIN Public Health Initiatives, Nigeria).