The International Foundation for Maternal Periconceptional and Peri- Neonatal Medicine was founded in London on 25 September 2019 with the aim not to create a new company but a scientific structure to foster education, research and advocacy in maternal, periconceptional and neonatal medicine and care worldwide, in an integrated way, to promote and disseminate the study, research and knowledge on all aspects of maternal, periconceptional and neonatal medicine in order to attain, by all appropriate means, a higher level of physical and mental health for women, mothers, and their children by improving the quality and provision of care in the world.

To achieve this goal, the Foundation’s mission is to organize an International Congress every two years, Courses in different regions of the world, linked in particular to the already existing Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine Societies, to create Study Groups on topics with great interest, which promote definitions and terminologies in the mother and infant area, and promoting international scientific exchanges, especially among experts in the low middle income countries.

The Foundation is organized into two bodies, one executive, the Board of Directors and the other scientific, the Board of Scientific Advisors. The Board of Directors is coordinated by Prof Gian Carlo Di Renzo and the other Board by Prof Umberto Simeoni together with their founding members.

The Foundation intends to promote various initiatives starting from the year 2021 and to improve professionalism in the mother and infant area, it is developing agreements with an educational platform such as FIGO (FIGO-GLOWM) IPA (International Pediatric Association) ICM (International Confederation of Midwives) and with many other stakeholders (WHO, UNICEF, MoD etc), proposing itself as a scientific interlocutor to promote health and prevention in maternal infant care.