Evidence. Community. Possibility.
Safer nights.
Brighter futures.
For every baby.
Infant survival is more than a recommendation. It is a shared responsibility to build the knowledge, relationships, resources, and systems that make safety possible for every family.
TRUTH • COMPASSION • SUPPORT • FAIRNESS • FUTURE
OUR PURPOSE
Changing how the world thinks about infant safe sleep.
GISS Center advances a future where every family has access to the information, tools, relationships, and conditions needed to protect infants. We center communities whose experiences and voices have too often been overlooked.
Meet our founder
Dr. Stacy D. Scott, Ph.D., MPA
Author · Scholar-Practitioner · Public Health Visionary
For more than 30 years, Dr. Stacy D. Scott has championed healthier futures for infants and families. As founder of the Global Infant Safe Sleep Center and author of Dreaming Safe Sleep Futures, she is changing the conversation about prevention—from simply sharing information to addressing the real-life conditions that shape families' choices.Her work brings together evidence, community wisdom, compassion, and institutional accountability to help build safer futures for every baby.
Our Signature Framework
Dreaming Safe Sleep Futures™
Our Afrofuturist approach brings evidence, lived experience, and the imagination of safer futures together. It invites us to ask not only what families should do, but what communities and institutions must do to make safe sleep possible.
“Evidence tells us what protects babies. Fairness asks whether families have the support and resources to put that evidence into practice.”
What We Champion
From safe sleep messages to lasting change.
Our work connects personal caregiving decisions to the conditions that help make safe infant sleep achievable.
Global Vision
Local wisdom.
Global learning.
Infant survival is a global challenge, but the circumstances families navigate differ across cultures, communities, and health systems. We seek opportunities to learn with international researchers, public health leaders, practitioners, and community organizations.
Our aspiration is a global learning network that shares evidence, tests context-responsive approaches, and advances dignity and fairness in infant survival.
International partnership opportunities are an invitation to collaborate, not a claim of established country programs.
Learn With GISS Center
Training & Events
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Practical professional development, timely conversations, and learning experiences that connect evidence, compassion, and community wisdom.
Nursing continuing education contact hours apply only to eligible nursing registrants, pending Ohio Nurses Association approval and completion requirements. Other registrants receive a certificate of completion, not nursing contact hours.
Registration will be hosted through Eventbrite once the event is published. Nursing continuing education approval is pending.
More learning opportunities are on the horizon
Watch this space for future GISS Center webinars, workshops, and conversations.
Learning & Resources
Ideas you can bring into practice.
Explore tools, principles, and conversations for the people helping families build safer nights.
Build the Future Together
We don't just imagine safer futures. We build them together.
Connect with GISS Center to explore learning, professional education, research exchange, and community-driven collaboration.