The Newborn Foundation is a Minnesota-based international 501(c)3 non-profit organization that advocates for newborn screening and works to develop and implement programs, technologies and policies that reduce

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. The organization has played a part in the policy development, adoption and implementation of technologies for early detection, intervention and care of the youngest patients, including the addition of universal newborn

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(CCHD) screening to the federal Routine Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP).

Background

New Born Foundation- Working Internationally

The Newborn Foundation is credited with persuading the

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to formally recommend universal

screening for congenital heart defects in every child born in the United States.

Annamarie Saarinen Annamarie Saarinen is an American health advocate, economist and co-founder of the Newborn Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization that aims to accelerate the pace of early detection and intervention for treatable newborn health conditions. Saarinen ...

co-founded the Newborn Foundation in 2010 after her daughter, Eve Saarinen, was nearly discharged from the hospital nursery with an undetected critical congenital heart defect (CCHD). Saarinen and co-founder Jim Bialick formed the Newborn Coalition, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization in 2010 and launched the Newborn Foundation shortly thereafter to work on advocacy and policies in newborn screening and the deployment of medical technologies and health information technologies to reduce infant mortality and improve newborn health outcomes. Since 2012, the Foundation has awarded the

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"Dawn of Life” Award to four U.S. policymakers. It has also presented the R. Rodney Howell Award for Newborn Health, and the EVE Innovation Award for achievements in newborn screening, research, policy and technology.

BORN project

After successfully implement policies in the United States, the Newborn Foundation launched the BORN (Birth Oximetry Routine for Newborns) project. The BORN project is a global health initiative that aims to bring affordable newborn screening resources, training, education and policy frameworks to resource-challenged settings and low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The BORN Project was among the first joint commitments to the United Nations Secretary General's ''Every Woman Every Child'' (EWEC) initiative. Developed in partnership with

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, the project deployed the first mobile device enabled pulse oximeters to demonstrate the importance of newborn screening, scalable investment in early diagnostics and improved access to follow-up care for fragile babies. In September 2015, the BORN project was selected by the

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and the

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as one of 14 innovation projects to be highlighted during UN General Assembly as helping achieve the UN

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by 2030.

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