Jhpiego to participate in Women Deliver conference in London
Jhpiego President and CEO, Dr. Leslie Mancuso, and several of Jhpiego’s senior technical staff will join more than 2,000 delegates from more than 75 countries at Women Deliver. This is a landmark global conference that will focus on creating political will to save the lives and improve the health of women, mothers and newborn babies around the world. Participants include cabinet ministers, heads of United Nations and other multilateral agencies, senior government officials, health professionals, researchers, economists, and reproductive health advocates.
The conference will look at new and proven ways to save women’s lives around the world. In addition to looking at strategies to change how health information and services are provided and funded, the conference will tackle other key issues, including poverty reduction, women’s human rights, and economic development.
Women Deliver will be held at the ExCel London, International Exhibition and Conference Centre, 18-20 October.
Jhpiego technical leadership will present the following programs at Women Deliver:
Name: |
Pashtoon Azfar, Midwifery Advisor |
Title: |
101 Reaching MDG 5:
Scaling-up Interventions to Reduce Maternal Mortality |
Location: |
SG3 |
Time: |
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
Name: |
Jeremie Zoungrana, Burkina Faso
Country Director |
Title: |
Capacity for Change:
The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood |
Location: |
SG8 |
Time: |
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
Name: |
Dr. William Brieger, Senior
Malaria Advisor
Kaendi Munguti, Malaria Action
Coalition Technical Advisor |
Title: |
129 Malaria:
A Forgotten Enemy of Maternal Health |
Location: |
Premier 1 |
Time: |
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
Name: |
Dr. Harshad Sanghvi, Medical
Director |
Title: |
116 Caesarean Section Delivery:
A Life Saving Intervention |
Location: |
Premier 2 |
Time: |
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm |
Name: |
Dr. Harshad Sanghvi, Medical
Director |
Title: |
301 What works for Reducing Maternal and Newborn Mortality |
Location: |
Plenary Room |
Time: |
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
Name: |
Rosemary Kamunya, Trainer |
Title: |
102 Postnatal Care:
A Missing Link to Save the Lives of Women and Newborns |
Location: |
SG8 |
Time: |
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
Name: |
Dr. Ricky Lu, Director,
Reproductive Health & Family Planning |
Title: |
115 Cervical Cancer Prevention:
Achieving the Promise of New Tools and Technologies |
Location: |
SG12 |
Time: |
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
Name: |
Sarla Chand, Faith Based
Coordinator |
Title: |
152 Faith Based Organizations and Maternal Mortality |
Location: |
SG14 |
Time: |
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
Name: |
Dr. Koki Agarwal, Director,
Jhpiego ACCESS
Hamida Ebadi |
Title: |
129 Malaria:
A Forgotten Enemy of Maternal Health |
Location: |
Premier 1 |
Time: |
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
Name: |
Pashtoon Azfar, Midwifery Advisor |
Title: |
109 Prevention and Treatment of Postpartum Hemorrhage |
Location: |
SG5 |
Time: |
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm |
Name: |
Catharine McKaig, Project
Director ACCESS FP |
Title: |
Perspectives on Family Planning and Maternal Health |
Location: |
SG15 |
Time: |
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm |
For more information about the Women Deliver Conference, visit the conference
Web site.
About Jhpiego
For nearly 40 years, Jhpiego, (pronounced "ja-pie-go"), has empowered front-line health
workers by designing and implementing simple, low-cost, hands-on solutions that
strengthen the delivery of health care services, following the
household-to-hospital continuum of care. We partner with community- to
national-level organizations to build sustainable, local capacity through
advocacy, policy and guidelines development, and quality and performance
improvement approaches.
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