The University of Notre Dame is a critical partner in a new multi-university research consortium selected by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Making Obstetrics Care Smart (MOCS) program to eliminate dangerous guesswork in the delivery room. The project, named OMEGA (Optical, Mechanical, and Electrical Global Assessment of fetal hypoxia), will create a sophisticated, noninvasive wearable monitoring system to assess fetal distress and its underlying causes in real time.