Kybele, Inc.

Kybele, Inc. Visit www.kybeleworldwide.org to learn more! Our teams promote teaching and provide hands-on training in techniques that improve healthcare safety.

Kybele is a global nonprofit leader in health-system strengthening that is internationally recognized for improving the quality and safety of healthcare during childbirth in low-and middle-income countries. Since its formation in 2001, Kybele has saved the lives of mothers and babies around the world through host country collaboration and partnership. Our organization brings US, Canadian, Australi

an, and European healthcare professionals into host countries to work alongside doctors and nurses in their home environments. Kybele teams consist of experts in anesthesiology, obstetrics, and neonatology along with implementation scientists, nurses, respiratory therapists and others. Kybele connects people globally to protect the health and dignity of pregnant women and newborns. Kybele currently has programs in Ghana, Ukraine and the Balkan countries. Visit www.kybeleworldwide.org to learn more about our nonprofit and how together, we can make a difference.

Happy Mother’s Day from Kybele! We celebrate the strength, love, hard-work, and resilience of mothers around the world. ...
05/11/2025

Happy Mother’s Day from Kybele!

We celebrate the strength, love, hard-work, and resilience of mothers around the world. Kybele is honored to support safe childbirth and respectful lifelong care for every mother, everywhere.

Thank you for all you do this Mother’s Day and every day.

04/08/2025

Watch this newly released short video about Kybele's innovative and life-saving OTIP Package.

Thank you Grand Challenges Canada / Grands Défis Canada, the Ghana Health Service and all our grant funders, donors, and medical volunteers for partnering with and supporting this important and life-saving work.

To learn more about OTIP, visit:
https://kybeleworldwide.org/our-work/otip/

Kybele is HIRING!  Come Join Our Team!Kybele is actively searching for a high-level executive to serve as the CO-EXECUTI...
04/04/2025

Kybele is HIRING! Come Join Our Team!

Kybele is actively searching for a high-level executive to serve as the CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND STRATEGIC GROWTH.

Applications are open now until FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2025.

For a detailed job description and requirements visit:
https://kybeleworldwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Kybele-Employment-Application_Co-ED_04-02-25_Final-Version.pdf

There are three things that cause the majority of newborn deaths around the world:PrematurityAsphyxiaInfectionMany of th...
03/25/2025

There are three things that cause the majority of newborn deaths around the world:

Prematurity
Asphyxia
Infection

Many of these deaths are preventable with modern medical interventions. The Making Every Baby Count Initiative (MEBCI) 2.0 is a partnership between Kybele, Ghana Health Service, and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation to provide the resources and training needed to change those numbers.

Learn more about the MEBCI 2.0 program and the thousands of babies who have benefited from it. Link in bio.

Sometimes, one trip can change everything. While Kybele does a lot of work in the areas of obstetric triage and advanced...
03/13/2025

Sometimes, one trip can change everything.

While Kybele does a lot of work in the areas of obstetric triage and advanced care for newborns, the origin of the Kybele story starts somewhere else–in obstetric anesthesia.

Kybele’s founder, Dr. Medge Owen, received a Fulbright Program scholarship in 1997 (pictured in first photo) to teach obstetric anesthesia and neonatal resuscitation in Turkey. That trip changed Dr. Owen’s life, starting a career-long passion for improving medical care for pregnant women–no matter where they lived.

Dr. Owen founded Kybele a few years later to forward that mission, and, since that time, Kybele has been training medical professionals and developing curriculum to improve obstetric anesthesia care in the Balkans.

One of these programs is an Annual School of Obstetric Anesthesia that provides hands-on training in the latest obstetric anesthesia techniques to anesthesiology faculty members and residents. This year we’ll be celebrating the 15th year of that program.

Obstetric anesthesiology continues to be an important part of the mission to improve childbirth safety around the world.

Why is the Making Every Baby Count Initiative (MEBCI) in Ghana so important?Because > 50% of deaths in children under fi...
02/28/2025

Why is the Making Every Baby Count Initiative (MEBCI) in Ghana so important?

Because > 50% of deaths in children under five years old are babies who are less than 28 days old.

That number drives Kybele to partner with Ghana Health Service and Children's Investment Fund Foundation to bring advanced training to medical professionals on the frontlines of caring for these infants, as well as improving hospital systems and providing needed equipment to give babies the best care possible.

Source: International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2023.100632

For change to last, it must be self-sustaining.A hallmark of the Obstetric Triage Implementation Package (OTIP) is putti...
02/19/2025

For change to last, it must be self-sustaining.

A hallmark of the Obstetric Triage Implementation Package (OTIP) is putting ownership into the hands of the medical professionals who use the training daily. As a result, OTIP is a program that continues long after the trainers have gone on to the next hospital.

Here’s how that model works:

🇬🇭🏆 Kybele trained 16 National Champions who live and work in Ghana.

🏥🏆 2 National Champions train about 10 Clinical Champions at a particular hospital.

👩🏿‍⚕️👨🏿‍⚕️ Clinical Champions train other staff and provide ongoing education.

Through this model Kybele lives out one of its core values: locally-grown care.

Read more about how OTIP empowers medical professionals to save the lives of pregnant women and their babies across Ghana: https://kybeleworldwide.org/the-national-rollout-of-kybeles-otip/

01/29/2025

Kybele was founded on a gap. Our founder, Dr. .owen, witnessed firsthand the gaps that exist between medical knowledge and application when it comes to caring for women and babies during childbirth nearly 30 years ago.

That observation sparked Kybele, and since that time, we have worked to develop simple, innovative medical solutions that help people most affected by these gaps. By identifying gaps in care and taking the time to understand the solutions that fit the context, we can save lives and reduce suffering.

Discover more on our website.

What do you think when you see these colors?🟢🟡 🔴No, it’s not a stoplight, but the Obstetric Triage Implementation Packag...
01/23/2025

What do you think when you see these colors?

🟢
🟡
🔴

No, it’s not a stoplight, but the Obstetric Triage Implementation Package (OTIP) uses the same concept to communicate the immediacy of a patient’s need.

When a pregnant woman comes into a medical facility, she’s issued a wristband with one of these three colors: 🟢 for good stable condition, 🟡 for some risks or concerns, and 🔴 for needing immediate treatment.

These simple colored wristbands save lives by communicating clearly to all medical personnel a woman’s condition. Simple, but effective.

Learn more about how the OTIP program harnesses the power of simple, effective solutions to save lives at https://kybeleworldwide.org/our-work/otip/.

Kybele connects several key groups to sustain the mission of reducing maternal and infant mortality around the world. Ea...
01/17/2025

Kybele connects several key groups to sustain the mission of reducing maternal and infant mortality around the world. Each partner plays a vital part in moving that mission forward.

🏥 Local Healthcare

Every country Kybele works in starts with developing relationships with health agencies or hospital leaders, the gateways to medical care. We form close relationships with individual hospitals and medical facilities, where our teams meet patients and train and equip the medical professionals who directly care for mothers and babies.

🥼Clinical Experts
We work with a wide network of clinical experts, medical professionals in a variety of fields–obstetrics, neonatology, anesthesia–who can be called off the bench to help a project when their expertise is needed. Sometimes this involves traveling to mentor in-country medical professionals and sometimes that means developing training programs that can be used wherever needed.

🧡 Kybele

The Kybele organization is made up of full-time and volunteer staff, who provide the infrastructure that supports the mission. From producing programs and connecting stakeholders, to applying for grants and handling logistics, our staff works hard to cultivate research and relationships that make a difference.

🫶 Funders

Our life-saving work is made possible by the generosity of a variety of grants, funding organizations, and individual donors. Whether an individual giving a couple hundred dollars or a funding organization providing the means for a multi-million dollar project, each cares deeply about improving the lives of mothers and babies the world over.

If any of these pieces were missing, we wouldn’t be able to save lives with Kybele’s innovative solutions. No part is unimportant. We cannot do it alone.

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