Global Maternal Newborn Health: Current Progress and Future Directions

Last Thursday, February 4, 2016, global and maternal health experts gathered in the Leadership Studio at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to discuss the status and imperatives of maternal newborn health. The seminar, Global Maternal Newborn Health: Current Progress and Future Directions, provided an opportunity for panelists to discuss their current work in the field as well as their top insights from the 2015 Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference held in Mexico City last October. Dr. Ana Langer, Director of the Women and Health Initiative and Maternal Health Task Force at the Harvard Chan School, presented the Momentum for Maternal Newborn Health poster, a visual roadmap of the 10 critical actions for maternal newborn health needed in the post-2015 era.

Panelists included the following experts in global, maternal, and newborn health:

• Grace Chan Physician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Instructor in Pediatrics and Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Margaret Kruk, Associate Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Ana Langer, Director, Women and Health Initiative and Professor of the Practice of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Alicia Yamin, Lecturer on Law and Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Policy Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights
• Mary Nell Wegner (Moderator), Executive Director, Maternal Health Task Force

Couldn’t join us at the Leadership Studio? Watch the seminar video at this link or above.

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