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Identifying and Addressing Unmet Needs
We are inspired to help create a world where people, no matter their circumstances, have access to quality health care. We collaborate with respected groups to train doctors, nurses and others who work to keep communities healthy.
In Ethiopia, pregnant women living in rural areas rarely have a skilled health care professional helping with the delivery of their babies. In urban areas, less than half of moms have a trained professional assisting with childbirth. When complications occur, the lives of mother and baby are often at risk.
The Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) initiative trains health care workers in low-resource settings to intervene when newborns have birth asphyxia, the inability to breathe at birth. HBB is committed to increase the availability of skilled birth attendants at every birth. Nurses and midwives with HBB training have the skills to resuscitate over 90% of babies with birth asphyxia.
Across Africa, there is a growing recognition that fostering a new cadre of leaders with strong management and leadership expertise will help strengthen the capacity of health systems, boost the quality, quantity and access to health services for underserved populations, and help countries achieve their national health priorities. As Julio Frenk, Dean of Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health points out, “Professionals are falling short on appropriate competencies for effective teamwork, and they are not exercising effective leadership to transform health systems.”
Since its launch in 1992, the Johnson & Johnson Bridge to Employment initiative has helped 14- to 18-year-olds pursue education, excel in academics, and broaden their career aspirations. Over 75 Bridge to Employment sites have been established in disadvantaged communities on six continents. The program aims to increase the number of students who enroll in higher education as well as increase the number of students pursuing health or science careers.
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In signing the communiqué, Johnson & Johnson and 15 other life science companies are committing to prioritize the safety, science and accessibility of the potential vaccines, therapeutic medicines or diagnostic tools they are developing to help fight the pandemic.
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