Speaking at the Child Survival Call to Action on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “announced the establishment of a unique and historic global development alliance (GDA) — Survive and Thrive: Professional Associations, Private Sector and Global Health Scholars Saving Mothers, Newborns and Children — to improve survival rates for women and children around the world,” a Survive and Thrive press release reports (6/14). In addition, she announced the Women’s Health Innovation Program, aimed at “educat[ing] and empower[ing] parents in-need so they can expect a healthy pregnancy, safe delivery and a healthy baby,” according to a Department of State fact sheet on the program, which is “supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through a $4.5 million grant to the Secretary’s International Fund for Women and Girls” (6/14).