Final Report GG1525173: Saving Babies Lives in Ethiopia
Sep 15, 2017
Karin Davies
Final Report GG1525173: Saving Babies Lives in Ethiopia

Karin Davies MD is a retired San Diego Kaiser pediatrician who lived in Ethiopia as a child when her father, as part of the Point Four Program, helped to develop an agricultural and technical school in Jimma Ethiopia. Dr. Davies returned to visit Ethiopia years later with her brothers and found that the small school her father helped to develop with only 80 students is now Jimma University with over 40,000 students. She felt a strong connection to Ethiopia and its people and, upon return, worked with her colleague, Neonatologist Patricia Bromberger, to develop a training of trainers program in neonatal resuscitation and post-resuscitation care of newborns for medical, nursing, and midwife students at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Gondar in Gondar, Ethiopia.

That training program became a Vocational Training Team Project funded by The Rotary Foundation’s Global Grant: “Saving Babies Lives in Ethiopia”. Dr. Davies is a certified instructor in the Neonatal Resuscitation Program and is a Master Trainer in Helping Babies Breathe and Essential Care for Every Newborn which are training programs developed jointly by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association to train doctors, nurses and midwives in low resource areas to save babies lives at birth. In addition, she is a Master Trainer in the TeamSTEPPS program to train health professionals in communication and teamwork skills.