Events
Upcoming Events
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Child Survival Action Results Framework: Driving advocacy and action at global and country levels for young children
Child Survival Action (CSA) aims to eliminate preventable child deaths and accelerate progress in countries off track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal 2030 under-five mortality target. But how can countries track their progress and use data to advocate for action?
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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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Improving Quality of Nutrition MNCH Services: Global resources, opportunities & lessons from Ethiopia
The Quality of Care subgroup and the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health hosted a webinar to review the nutrition-specific components of the WHO standards for improving quality of facility-based care.
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Improving Treatment of Wasting in Children through iCCM
The iCCM and Nutrition subgroups of the Child Health Task Force hosted a webinar to share findings from a MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership report on policy, programmatic and operational learnings of integrating case management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and iCCM.
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Improving Quality of Care through Capacity Building and Data-informed Decisions in Uttar Pradesh, India
The QoC subgroup of the Child Health Task Force hosted a webinar to share key government initiatives to improve quality of care for newborns and children in Uttar Pradesh. The Government of Uttar Pradesh has been making large investments towards improving quality of care for mothers and babies in the state. Based on the recently released National Family Health Survey 2019-2021 (NFHS-5), this is starting to pay dividends.
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Reaching Children with Life Saving Diarrhea Treatment: Launch of the ORS/Zinc Co-pack Alliance
The Child Health Task Force hosted a webinar to launch the ORS/Zinc Co-pack Alliance. ORSZCA brings together organizations and individuals to identify and remove barriers to co-packaging to accelerate uptake and save lives. The Task Force will collaborate closely with ORSZCA towards the common goal of strengthened equitable and comprehensive child health programs.
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Child Health Task Force Members' Meeting
The Secretariat of the Task Force convened the members at the start of 2022 to discuss the results from the annual pulse check survey (full summary here), implement the strategic plan, and introduce the Child Survival Action Plan.
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Translating Data into Better Health for Children: Lessons from the CODES Project in Uganda
The Child Health Task Force hosted a webinar to share lessons from the Community and District-management Empowerment for Scale-up (CODES) project in Uganda. The CODES study was a randomized controlled trial showing how the use of data for evidence-based planning, district health management training and community empowerment can strengthen health systems and deliver better child health outcomes.
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Sick Child Feeding and Care Practices: Sharing findings from an MCGL report in 16 African countries
The Nutrition and Child Health subgroup hosted a webinar to share findings from a report by USAID's MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) project on sick child feeding in 16 African countries. The report investigates caregivers' practices and health providers' support for nutrition counseling during and after childhood illness.
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Community Health Worker Experiences and Perceptions: Findings from a PATH-MACEPA survey of CHWs in Zambia
The Institutionalizing iCCM subgroup hosted a webinar to present findings from a survey of community health workers' experiences in Zambia. As part of an effort to better understand the community workforce providing malaria community care management (CCM) and surveillance in Zambia, the PATH Malaria Control and Elimination Partnership in Africa (MACEPA) along with Tulane University conducted the survey in 2019.