Events

May 22, 2024 - Jan 31, 2025 | Online

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.

May 16, 2024 - May 16, 2024 | Online

Introduction to a New Online Smart digital Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (Smart dIMCI) course

In an effort to increase access to high quality child health services and meet the demands for scaling up training of primary health care workers in Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), WHO has developed an online smart digital IMCI course. The course is one of the options for training health workers in IMCI and can be accessed online on the WHO Academy Platform on various electronic devices (desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone) here.

May 15, 2024 - May 15, 2024 | Online

ORS and Zinc as standard of care for diarrhea management: Actions to improve uptake

Diarrhea remains one of the top leading infectious causes of childhood mortality, responsible for about 9 percent, or an estimated 500,000 deaths in children younger than five years of age worldwide. It is also a significant contributor to child growth stunting and deficits in cognitive development, with far-reaching implications for families, communities, and emerging economies.

Apr 30, 2024 - Apr 30, 2024 | Online

Announcing the Child Survival Action (CSA) Toolkit

Apr 23, 2024 - Apr 23, 2024 | Online

Advancing lifecourse programming for child and adolescent health and wellbeing – routine scheduled well-child care visits

Over the past years, WHO and UNICEF have embarked on efforts to guide a comprehensive agenda and strategic shifts in maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programming that would allow children to survive, thrive and develop their full potential.

Apr 04, 2024 - Apr 04, 2024 | Online

Is relapse after initial severe acute malnutrition (SAM) recovery a problem? Preliminary findings from a recent multi-country cohort study

Join global experts in severe acute malnutrition (SAM) treatment to learn and discuss the latest research on post-discharge outcomes following initial SAM recovery in CMAM programs. During this webinar, Heather Stobaugh, PhD, and Sarah King, MPH, will present preliminary findings from a large, multi-country study led by ACF in collaboration with several academic partners, that followed over 2,400 children after SAM recovery to quantify relapse rates and identify risk factors of relapse.&

Mar 20, 2024 - Mar 20, 2024 | Online

Childhood Vaccination Subgroup Special Meeting: Planning for World Immunization Week

As we continue our journey towards achieving SDG 3.2 and increasing the coverage of lifesaving childhood vaccines in 54 off-track countries, the Childhood Vaccination subgroup was excited to host a pivotal meeting in preparation for the upcoming World Immunization Week (April 24-30, 2024). This special meeting served as a collaborative forum to share partners' initiatives for World Immunization Week and explore potential synergies.

Mar 06, 2024 - Mar 06, 2024 | Online

Child Health Task Force Members' Meeting

The Child Health Task Force Secretariat and Steering Committee hosted a membership-wide meeting to discuss the results of the 2023 Membership Pulse Check Survey. The meeting included a discussion of improvements to member engagement and agenda setting for the Child Health Task Force in 2024. We encouraged members to share feedback with the Steering Committee and Secretariat, reflections from the past year, and goals for 2024.