Events
Upcoming Events
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Climate Change and Health Forum
According to the Children’s Climate Risk Index, climate change is already significantly affecting children globally, with approximately 1 billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of experiencing the negative impacts of climate change.
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Re-Imagining Child Health Through Primary Health Care: A Series
Join the Child Health Task Force’s Re-imagining the Package of Care for Children subgroup, WHO, and Global Communities for a series in which we will discuss key strategies, challenges, and innovations in delivering integrated child-centered health services to children within the primary health care (PHC) framework.
Past Events
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Bite-Size Skills-Building Session: Social Media Basics
Social media is more than a way to stay connected—it’s a powerful tool for sharing information, building networks, and participating in key conversations. By 2027, over 6 billion people are expected to use social platforms, highlighting its growing importance in our personal and professional lives.
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Exploring a new global resource on care seeking for child health: the New Health Market Analyzer Tool
The Child Health Taskforce will host a webinar on December 12th bout the recently launched Health Market Analyzer from FHM Engage. During this 60-minute webinar, we will explore the Child Health section of this new tool, which highlights contributions of the public and private sectors to sick child care and childhood vaccination services. The tool brings Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data to your fingertips to showcase patte
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IMCI: Digital adaptation kit for child health (0-59 months) in humanitarian emergencies
The Child Health Task Force will host this webinar on November 13th. In this 60-minute webinar we will review and discuss the new digital application kit (DAK) for child health (0-59 months) in humanitarian emergencies.
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From Theory to Practice: Implementing SQ-LNS to prevent child undernutrition
The SQ-LNS Taskforce, the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN), and the Child Health Task Force will co-host this webinar on October 29. In this 90-minute webinar we will review and discuss the new Small-Quantity Lipid-based Nutrient Supplement (SQ-LNS) Operational Guidance document.
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Advancing newborn and child health: Insights into the role of the private academic institutions in advancing service delivery, knowledge and learning to improve health outcomes
The Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health (CoE, WCH) at Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan in collaboration with the Department of Pediatrics & Child Health and the Child Health Task Force, is pleased to present a webinar highlighting key learnings and experiences in the field of newborn and child health interventions in LMIC settings.
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Accelerating Momentum for Child Health
At the World Health Assembly in May, the newly passed Resolution 11.7 reaffirmed a global commitment to achieving maternal and child health goals. MOMENTUM and the Child Health Task Force (CHTF) hosted a live event to keep up the momentum for child health at our live event.
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Accelerating UHC and Child Survival: Lessons from the ProCCM Trial in Mali
Governments currently seek approaches to accelerate progress on child survival with community based primary health care, as fifty-four countries are not currently on track to meet the under-five mortality sustainable development goal. More research is needed on the impact of community health worker home visits and other community health system strengthening approaches on population level health outcomes.
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Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness cross-country results: Improving Access to Tools that Detect Severe Illness
When sick children arrive at primary health care facilities, it is critical that they are appropriately screened, diagnosed, managed, and if needed, referred for urgent care without delay. Clinical signs alone do not detect all severe illness in children. For health care providers to make a correct diagnosis, they must be equipped with the right tools, including access to pulse oximetry and clinical decision support systems.