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.
Past Events
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Improving Access to MNCH Products through Strengthening Registration
The Commodities subgroup hosted a webinar to hear from USAID Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) program about the challenges with registration of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) medical products revealed in a nine-country study.
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Quality of Care for IMCI in Private and Public Health Facilities Webinar
The Private Sector Engagement (PSE) and Quality of Care (QoC) subgroups co-hosted a webinar to share results from a SHOPS Plus analysis of Service Provision Assessment (SPA) survey data from seven countries. The analysis examined how well health facilities in those countries adhere to integrated management for childhood illness (IMCI) guidelines for children 2-59 months and young infants under two months.
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Webinar on the WHO Child Health Redesign: A New Agenda for Child and Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
Hosted by the Child Health Task Force in collaboration with WHO and UNICEF colleagues, this webinar featured an update on the WHO Child Heath Redesign. The first presentation by Wilson Were focused on the overall framework for the redesign including strategic shifts in child and adolescent programming, the importance of a life-course approach, and examples of intersectional collaborations.
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Participatory Systems Mapping: Implications for Improving Urban Maternal and Child Outcomes Webinar
This webinar was hosted by the Child Health Task Force to feature the work of the Building Healthy Cities (BHC) project at JSI Research & Training Institute and its relevance to multisectoral approaches to maternal and child health. Amanda Pomeroy-Stevens, Project Director of BHC, joined by her colleague, Dr. Damodar Bachani, Deputy Director of BHC, presented the healthy urban planning approach and methods for dynamic systems mapping.
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Webinar Series: Delivering Quality Essential Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services During COVID-19
In this webinar series, leading experts on quality of care shared global guidance and country experiences around quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health in the context of COVID-19. It ran from June 11 to November 5, 2020, and was co-hosted by the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the Quality of Care subgroup of the Child Health Task Force, with the support of UNICEF and the World Health Organization.
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Webinar on the Lancet Commission: A future for our world's children?
This webinar focused on themes of immediate relevance to child health program implementers and included presentations by the commissioners of the report as well as a moderated discussion addressing the funding options and perspectives of professional associations/pediatricians, NGOs, and other partners. The presenters and panelists also provided some new perspectives on the report within the COVID-19 context.
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Webinar Series: Child Health & the COVID-19 Response
The Child Health Task Force Secretariat is working with subgroup co-chairs on a bi-weekly webinar series on child health and the COVID-19 response. Each webinar focuses on the pandemic response in a specific thematic area at the global and country level, as well as the challenges faced in continuing essential health services for children. It is still unknown how long the pandemic will last and what its full impacts may be. The webinar series will adapt in scope and frequency as the response shifts to addressing the aftermath of the pandemic and its effects on child health.
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Institutionalizing integrated community case management (iCCM) to end preventable child deaths: A technical consultation and country action planning
With the aim to institutionalize integrated community case management (iCCM) in the context of primary health care (PHC) and comprehensive child health programming, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) co-hosted a meeting from July 22-26, 2019 targeting countries in sub-Saharan Africa with high child mortality burden.