Events

Upcoming Events

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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.&

Past Events

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Strengthening the Quality of Nutrition, Responsive Care, and Early Learning in Health Systems: Resources and Learning from USAID Advancing Nutrition

Over the past 5 years, USAID Advancing Nutrition has engaged in many activities to strengthen the quality of nutrition, responsive care, and early learning within health systems.

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Showcasing the Community Health Worker Assessment and Improvement Matrix (AIM) Tool in Fragile Settings

Community health workers (CHWs) are critical for providing healthcare services for children and women and contributing to health systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings. CHW programs play an important role in relating relief, rehabilitation, and development approaches, which aim to link short-term measures to longer-term development programs for a more sustainable response to health systems under stress.

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The Market Development Approach: Lessons from The Frontier Health Markets Engage Project in Tanzania

The Market Development Approach is a set of principles, frameworks, tools, and guidance. It has the specific objectives of developing and facilitating more effective and more inclusive market systems in the health sector across different health areas. It offers a lens through which the operationalization of these objectives can take place as identification and diagnosis of constraints and definition of opportunities for interventions is conducted.

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Measurement of Pediatric Quality of Care: Lessons from Sierra Leone and Kenya on the Process for Integrating Pediatric Quality of Care Indicators in the National Health Information System

This webinar takes a deep dive into the pediatric quality of care indicators and share latest updates from pathfinder countries Sierra Leone and Kenya that moved ahead with efforts to introduce the pediatric quality of care indicators in their national health information systems.

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Childhood Vaccination Subgroup Kick Off Event

The kick-off call for the new Childhood Vaccination subgroup of the Child Health Taskforce took place on on October 10, 2023 from 11:00am to 12:00pm EST. The subgroup will offer a forum to support the Child Survival Action agenda by accelerating efforts to increase coverage of the most life-saving vaccines - pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), rotavirus, measles, DTP vaccines, and in some settings malaria vaccines - in the countries that are off-trac
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Strengthening Nurturing Care in Humanitarian Response Series

The Global Health Cluster is collaborating with the Child Health Task Force, Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies, and other partners to incorporate the Nurturing Care Framework into the health sector contribution to humanitarian responses for children, caregivers, and families.

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Showcasing a Toolkit for Institutionalizing iCCM

This CHTF webinar which took place on September 19th allowed participants to learn about the integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) Toolkit.

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The Future of Counseling within GMP: A Learning Agenda to Shape Policy and Programming Priorities

In 178 countries worldwide, growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) continues to be an important entry point for preventive care and essential child health, nutrition, and development services. Given the varying levels of quality and success, country leadership and global teams are working to strengthen GMP.