Tracking Progress in Child Survival

Countdown to 2015

13 - 14 December 2005

Beveridge Hall, Senate House, University of London

Programme and Presentation

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12 December 2005
15:00 - 18.00
Registration



18:00 - 19.30
Reception
Hosted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Welcome

Andrew Haines
, Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
DAY 1: 13 December 2005
08:30 - 08.45
Registration



09.00 – 10:45
Session 1



The second child survival revolution
Co-Chairs:
Andrew Haines
Director London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Country Representative
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Honourable Minister of Health Ethiopia



Andrew Haines
, Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Jennifer Bryce
, Bellagio Child Survival Study Group

Robert Black
Johns Hopkins University
Tessa Wardlaw
UNICEF
09:55
Discussion

10:45 – 11:30
Coffee break


10:55
Participants seated


11:30-12:30
Session 2


Make every mother and child count
11:00
Maternal and child health: Where are we in 2005?
LEE Jong-Wook
, Director-General, World Health Organization

Video Presentation
11:15
Strategies for accelerating child survival
Ann Veneman
, Executive Director, UNICEF
Zulfiqar Bhutta
, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
11:45
Impact of poverty on child survival
Her Royal Highness
, The Princess Royal Chancellor of the University of London and President Save the Children UK

Discussion



12:15 - 13:00
SESSION 3


Making progress at country level
Co-Chairs:
Narimah Awin
Director Ministry of Health , Malaysia
James Tulloch
Australian Development Aid


Mamadou Sidibe
, Honourable Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development Senegal
Dr YV Pradhan
, Director Child Health Division, Department of Health Service Ministry of Health and Population
12:45
Discussion

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch break and Press Conference


12:15 - 13:00
SESSION 3 (continued)


Making progress at country level
Alvaro Rafael Munoz-Reyes
Honourable Minister of Health Bolivia
Dr Theopista John
World Health Organization
Syed Ahwar Mehmood
Secretary of the Minister of Health Pakistan
Kasonde Mwinga
World Health Organization
15:00
Discussion
13:00 - 14:00
Tea break
14:00 - 16:00
SESSION 4 (continued)


Roundtable debate:
Are we doing the right things?
Are we doing things right?
Facilitator:
Richard Horton
The Lancet

Discussants:
Francisco Songane
Former Minister of Health Mozambique
David McCoy
People’s Health Movement
Lynn Freedman
UN Millennium


18:30 – 20:00
Buffet dinner


Senate House
Hosted by Department for International Development and Save the Children UK
Welcome Remarks by:
Stewart Tyson
Department for International Development (DFID)
Regina Keith
Save the Children UK


Day 2: 14 December 2005 - DAY 2
09:00 - 10:30
SESSION 5


Tracking progress in child survival
Co-Chairs:
Anne Tinker
Save the Children US
Andres De Francisco
Global Forum for Health Research


Jennifer Bryce
The Bellagio Child Survival Study Group

Anne Mills
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

09:30
Making health systems work Monitoring critical human esources
David Sanders
University of the Western Cape South Africa

Mushtaque Chowdury
Bangladesh Rural Advance Commission-BRAC

10.00
Discussion

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break


09:00 - 10:30
SESSION 6


New strategic directions in child survival: What have we learnt from intervention and programme research?
Co-Chairs:
Jane Schaller
International Pediatric Association
Vinod Paul
All India Institute of Medical Sciences


Elizabeth Mason
Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development World Health Organization

Shams Arifeen
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh

Gareth Jones
UNICEF

11.45
Discussion

Betty Kirkwood
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Igor Rudan
Child Health Nutrition and Research Initiative

12.30
Discussion

12.50 Announcement of Best Posters and winner of the “prize” lunch with the Lancet

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch break


14:00 - 15:30
SESSION 7


What needs to be done?

Co-Chairs:
Anthony Costello
World Health Organization
Al Bartlett
United States Agency for International Development


Joy Lawn
Saving Newborn Lives

Flavia Bustreo
WHO/World Bank

14:25
Ivory towers and town criers
Richard Horton
The Lancet

Charles Abugre
Christian Aid

14.50
Discussion
15:30 - 16:00
Tea break


16:00 - 17:00
SESSION 8


The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Co-Chairs:
Kul Gautam
UNICEF
Honourable Minister of Health & Family Planning Madagascar


Fancisco Sangane
Director The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Secretariat

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Honourable Minister of Health Ethiopia

16.30
Discussion

17:00 - 18:00
SESSION 9


Thinking big: Going into Action for Child Survival

Co-Chairs:
Jacques Baudouy
Director Health, Nutrition and Population World Bank
Francisco Songane
Director The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Secretariat

Presentations by champions
17:00
Gareth Thomas
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for International Development UK
17:15
Executive Secretary GAVI
17:30
Fiona Weir
Director Policy and Communications Save the Children UK

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