About Us
Infante Sano, Spanish for Healthy Infant, is a nonprofit organization affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital. Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of mothers and infants in Latin America and the Caribbean. Every year over 10 million mothers and children die, mostly from preventable causes. This number of deaths is greater than the combined deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria. Available data shows that the majority of these deaths, approximately 75%, can be prevented through the provision of effective, low-cost health services.
Infante Sano has designed a program to provide these services. We partner with existing hospitals and provide extensive training programs and medical equipment to empower local health care workers to improve the quality of their care. Our programs focus on using evidence-based medicine and proven strategies. We hold ourselves to the highest standards in terms of measuring our impact, and we use these results to shape our on-going programs. Our RISE core values (Respect, Improve, Sustain, Empower) guide our programs, which build upon local capacity, promote sustainability, and recognize every person's right to basic health care.
Our Organization's Mission
To improve the health and well-being of mothers and infants in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Who We Serve
We are currently working in the Dominican Republic serving expecting mothers, newborns, and infants.
Leadership Profile
Bill Haney - President
Benjamin Downs - Vice-President / COO
Dr. Kim Wilson - Medical Director
Sarah Henry - Director of Development
Rachel Breman - Deputy Technical Director
Dr. Filiberto Hernandez - Head of Program Implementation
Christa Thoeresz - Program Manager
Dr. Sara Tolentino - Medical Director, Dominican Republic
Board of Directors
Bill Haney
Benjamin Downs
Kim Wilson
Maura McCarthy
Board of Advisors
George Biddle - Senior Vice President, International Rescue Committee
Jim Kim - Co-founder of Partners in Health; Chair, HMS Department of Social Medicine
Judy Palfrey - Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Director of the Center for International Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
John Adams - Founding Director, Natural Resource Defense Council
Marcie Tyre Berkeley - Scholar, Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center
Marie Langlois - Partner, Washington Trust
Peter Hecht - CEO, Microbia
Stephen Nicholas, M.D. - Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University; Director, Int'l Family AIDS Program, DR
Tim Disney - Filmmaker and Philanthropist
Tom Burke, M.D. - Director of Mass General Hospital Center for International Health
Ed O'Rourke, M.D. - Chairman, Faculty Committee on Student International Programs, Harvard Medical School
Marc Mitchell, M.D. - Management Specialist, Harvard University School of Public Health lecturer of International Health
Joia S. Mukherjee, M.D., MPH - Medical Director, Partners in Health Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice
Lauren Walters - Private investor in early stage new media, technology, and biotechnology companies
| Year Founded : |
2002 |
| 501(c)(3) Ruling Year : |
2006 |
What Sets Us Apart
What sets us apart is that we base their excellence on being an efficient, entrepreneurial organization that appropriately leverages resources.
Recent Accomplishments
* For $25,000 we sent $680,000 worth of medical equipment (two full containers) to our partner hospital in the Dominican Republic
* We saw a 17% reduction in neonatal mortality in six months following our neonatal resuscitation program
* We now have a total of 19 local Dominican staff members, and have begun operating at two new sites - La Romana and San Cristobal
