PRONTO International
Seema Handu, Ph.D., currently serves as the Country Director for PRONTO International in India, focusing on optimizing care during birth through innovative simulation-based training strategies. Simultaneously, Seema Handu acts as a Senior Advisor for the Maternal Newborn Health Research Cooperative at UCSF. Previous roles include Consultant at One Heart World-Wide, which aims to improve healthcare access for women and babies in rural Nepal, and Chief Operating Officer at Project Happiness, dedicated to empowering individuals globally. Seema Handu has also held leadership positions in various organizations such as Managing Director at the Children's Global Health Initiative, Vice President at PointCross/PharmQuest, Chair of the SEND Consortium, and Co-Founder and CEO of PharmQuest Corporation. Seema Handu holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Iowa.
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PRONTO International
VISION: PRONTO envisions birth as a safe and respectful experience for all mothers, babies, and healthcare providers. MISSION: We aim to optimize care during birth. We develop and implement innovative training strategies for health care providers that act as a catalyst for individual, team, and system change. We accomplish our mission by… ●Providing low-cost, highly realistic obstetric and neonatal emergency simulation training for interprofessional teams in resource-limited settings around the world. ●Promoting kind, dignified, and culturally responsive care of women and babies through interactive training modules that facilitate group discussion and self-discovery. ●Assisting local teams in the diagnosis of system barriers and in identifying achievable strategies to improve patient safety and birth outcomes. ●Contributing expertise to the field of low-resource simulation and facilitated debriefing. ●Participating in implementation research to refine training modules that improve outcomes for mothers, babies and healthcare providers. COMPANY OVERVIEW: PRONTO was born in response to the WHO Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5 and a call from the Mexican government to develop a program that focuses on improving the quality of care for women and neonates during obstetric emergencies. PRONTO International is an obstetric and neonatal emergency training program that leads inter-professional medical care teams through a series of skills stations, team-building activities, and low-tech, high-fidelity simulations. Participants gain the knowledge and skills necessary for the immediate diagnosis, treatment and stabilization of obstetric emergencies in resource-limited settings through innovative training modules.