The Johns Hopkins Maternal and Child Health Center in India works to strengthen public health education and accelerate research in maternal and child health. It prioritizes participatory and design thinking approaches in research, and implementation of public health interventions to amplify people’s voices and community ownership to improve health outcomes for women and children from vulnerable sections and enable an equitable progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The center focuses on, ensuring high quality care, strengthening primary health care delivery, addressing vaccine-preventable diseases, and enabling convergent action to address social determinants of health to meet the needs of women and children who live in urban and rural areas, who are marginalized and hard to reach.