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While many acknowledge that collective impact isn’t a panacea to addressing every social problem, it’s often difficult to understand how to predict the situations in which collective impact would be most feasible, and thereby successful.

Dr. Larry Rand, Principal Investigator for the UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative, took the podium in front of a large group of his peers who work on issues of maternal health across the globe. He was speaking about the historic $100M gift to the university to reduce the incidence of prematurity, the number one cause of infant mortality in the world