Emory School of Nursing Receives $8.1 Million Gates Foundation Grant - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

ATLANTA -- Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing has received $8,163,298 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a 2 1/2-year project designed to improve maternal and newborn survival rates in rural Ethiopia.

"The School of Nursing and its partners are joining with health care leaders and educators in Ethiopia to improve the care of pregnant women, the experience of childbirth and the health of newborns," says Emory School of Nursing Dean Linda McCauley, RN, PhD, FAAN.

To read the full press release, visit the Emory University web site.