No matter where in their early career path applicants find themselves, scholars must be committed to a career in OB/GYN and medical research, ready to use the RSDP program as a springboard into the type of deeper and more targeted scientific inquiry their careers will ask of them.
Along with the Agnes Higgins Award, the March of Dimes and Richard B. Johnston, Jr., MD Prize in Developmental Biology is one of two March of Dimes awards to lifetime scholars in the field of maternal fetal health
The March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center (PRC) at Imperial College London, in London, England, was established in 2018, becoming not only the organization’s first international PRC, but a key research powerhouse.
The March of Dimes launched its first PRC at Stanford University in 2011, which became the country’s first transdisciplinary research center dedicated to identifying the causes of premature birth.
The March of Dimes University of California San Francisco Prematurity Research Center, the organization’s newest prematurity research hub, which launched in early 2022, is focused on using big data to gain new insights into diagnostic and therapeutic tools to combat prematurity.
The March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania, which launched in 2014, is furthering our understanding of preterm birth through various fundamental research initiatives that span the reproductive, prenatal and neonatal disciplines.
The March of Dimes Breaking Through Bias Training was created to provide health care professionals with skills to recognize and remedy implicit bias in maternity care settings.
Maternal HealthCARE, a partnership between March of Dimes and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a quality improvement collaborative created to advance equity and provide safe and equitable maternity care for all.
Collective Impact (CI) is a model for solving complex social problems. The approach emphasizes collaboration, learning, and discovery with community partners that inform activity design and planning, implementation, and maintenance.
In 2020, March and Dimes NICU Family Support and the Vermont Oxford Network (VON), a leader in NICU quality improvement, collaborated with the March of Dimes Evaluation Team to conduct focus groups to identify opportunities to improve quality of life for families after the NICU.