Vayu Global Health Foundation

Vayu Global Health Foundation develops training, support and research programs on respiratory support for newborns, infants and children under age 5. Vayu is helping save infants and children from preventable respiratory distress deaths in the poorest regions of the world, including in the US Indian Health System, across Africa, South America and Southeast Asia.

The number one cause of pregnancy related deaths worldwide is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), life threatening bleeding after childbirth. To solve this crisis, Vayu supports multiple programs around the world combatting PPH including Vayu's own program, Every Second Matters for Mothers and Babies - Uterine Balloon Tamponade (ESM-UBT). ESM-UBT is an ultra-low-cost, easy to use, safe and highly cost effective package that provides training for medical personnel in partnering countries and an FDA approved uterine balloon device that can be used to avert PPH. ESM-UBT was designed as an affordable alternative to Western uterine balloons which are far too expensive to be distributed widely in developing regions.

Contractors conduct research and publish, particularly in the fields of Oxygen Delivery Systems and the Covid response in under-resourced areas.