The Texas Safe Babies initiative is led by Dr. Dorothy Mandell at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health.
The initiative encompasses a number of projects designed to prevent maltreatment, especially abusive head trauma, in the first year after birth. The collective purpose of the Safe Babies projects is to develop a strong evidence base that leads to wide-scale implementation of education that supports positive parenting and provides tools to help parents cope with the difficult aspects of caring for an infant.