International Stillbirth Alliance

The International Stillbirth Alliance (ISA) is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 2003 by three US-based bereaved mothers. They intentionally founded it as a global organization, recognizing that no country was paying sufficient attention to stillbirth, nor providing adequate support for bereaved parents and families.

Since then, the Lancet series on stillbirth from 2011 and 2016 have highlighted the issue of stillbirth and offer a roadmap for eliminating, by 2030, one of the most neglected tragedies in global health today. However, we continue to face enormous barriers to realizing these intentions.

ISA aims to help bridge the gaps in addressing stillbirth and early newborn death within the continuum of maternal and newborn health through collaborations for continued research, education, advocacy, and training on global care standards with a variety of stakeholders and partners.