Events
Upcoming Events
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Virtual Conference: Accelerating progress towards the 2030 SDGs – Reducing inequities in child health
The Child Health Task Force is pleased to host its first virtual conference, Accelerating progress towards the 2030 SDGs: Reducing inequities in child health to be held on June 6-7, 2023. The two-day, online event will unite child health partners to examine how we address health inequities to enable children throughout the lifecourse and across the globe to survive and thrive.
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Adapting Health Systems to Protect Children from the Impact of Climate Change Series
The Re-imagining the Package of Care for Children subgroup of the Child Health Task Force and UNICEF are co-hosting a webinar series building on the event in May to foster discussion around adapting child health systems to become more resilient in the face of the climate crisis moving forward.
Past Events
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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.
- | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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.
- | Accra, Ghana
Improving Nutrition Services in the Care of the Ill and Vulnerable Newborn and Child
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, and USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), hosted an international workshop, Improving Nutrition Services in the Care of the Ill and Vulnerable Newborn and Child, October 30 - November 2, 2018 in Accra, Ghana (invite only).
- | Abuja, Nigeria
RAcE Multi-Country Dissemination Meeting
Hosted by the Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria and the World Health Organization, the four-day RAcE Multi-Country Dissemination Meeting gathered ministry of health, non-governmental organization, academic, and international public health representatives to highlight achievements, crystallise lessons learned, and elaborate sustainability roadmaps.
- | Johannesburg, South Africa
2017 Child Health Routine Data Workshop
Hosted by USAID in collaboration with USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), the three and a half day conference focused on ensuring child health and nutrition data from national HIS are available, accessible, of high quality and used for decision making.
- | Nairobi, Kenya
2016 Nairobi iCCM Workshop
In April 2014, the Global Fund and UNICEF signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to better coordinate efforts aimed at reducing the burden of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria and improving the health of mothers, newborns, and children in a select number of high burden countries.