About MOB Family
Military Overseas Birth & Family Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
MOB Family is dedicated to improving postpartum care for American families — beginning with those serving overseas. In these settings, families often engage directly with host nation healthcare systems, many of which integrate postpartum services as a routine and continuous part of maternal care.
MOB Family was founded to address this critical gap in U.S. maternal health: the lack of structured, continuous postpartum support during the first year after childbirth. While many peer nations provide routine home-based care led by nurses and midwives, postpartum care in the United States remains fragmented, often limited to a single office visit.
Our mission is to explore, pilot, and advocate for a more comprehensive model of postpartum care — one that supports recovery, mental health, and family well-being through the postpartum period.
Our Vision
We envision a future where postpartum care is not a single visit, but an ongoing, supportive process.
MOB Family is working to develop a nurse-led, home-based postpartum care model informed by European midwifery systems — where continuity of care, early follow-up, and maternal well-being are foundational.
Through research, partnership, and pilot programming, we aim to demonstrate how this model can improve maternal outcomes and be adapted within U.S. healthcare systems, including TRICARE Overseas.
Founder
Anna Drake, MA, BSN, RN
Anna Drake is a registered nurse with over 18 years of experience across maternal-infant health, public health education, and international outreach. Her work has consistently focused on how healthcare systems impact patient experience — particularly in moments of vulnerability, transition, and recovery.
The vision for MOB Family was shaped by both clinical experience and lived experience as a military spouse in Germany, where she encountered a model of care that extended meaningfully into the postpartum period through routine home visits and continuous support.
That experience highlighted a stark contrast with the U.S. system and became the foundation for MOB Family’s mission: to explore how similar models could improve maternal morbidity and mortality outcomes for American families.
Anna is currently expanding her clinical training to include advanced practice in psychiatric and mental health care with a focus on maternal mental health and system-level change.
Organizational Development
MOB Family was developed through Syracuse University D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) where its foundational concept and model were refined and advanced. It is grateful to have received early financial support from CAVU Securities, a private investment firm supporting veterans and underserved communities through philanthropic and service-leader initiatives.
The organization is governed by a founding board and is actively expanding its leaderhip as program and partnerships develop. Future leadership will include professionals across maternal and mental health, military family advocacy, and health policy.
MOB Family welcomes collaboration with clinicians, researchers, practitioners and organizations interested in advancing postpartum care.
If you are interested in contributing to this work — through research, partnership, or advisory roles — we invite you to connect.
Join the Work
We are actively building MOB Family and welcome connection from individuals interested in supporting this work through funding, partnership, or board and advisory roles.