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 on Monday, September 16.

Advocates and country implementers shared their perspectives on what it takes to improve child health.

Speakers :

• Dr. Lynda Farma-Grant, Programme Manager for Child Health, Ministry of Health of Sierra Leone
• Dyness Kasungami, Project Director, CHTF
• Pavani Ram, Chief Medical Officer for Global Health, USAID
• Jennifer Requejo, Senior Advisor, Global Financing Facility for Women’s Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health/Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Katherine Semrau, Deputy Director, Ariadne Labs (Moderator)
• Meles Solomon, Child Health Lead, Ministry of Health of Ethiopia