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"Maternal Newborn and Child Health: Insights from Bangladesh, India and Malawi".
“Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: insights from Bangladesh, India and Malawi”
Immpact, University of Aberdeen, is organising a half day seminar to explore issues in maternal, newborn and child health in Bangladesh, Malawi and India. A rare opportunity to meet three internationally recognised experts and to hear about the challenges they face and how these are being addressed globally and in their own countries.
Programme:
12.30 Tea, Coffee and Networking
12.45 Welcome and Introductions
Guest speakers:
12.50 Dr Kaosar Afsana, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population in Bangladesh and Professor in James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University.
13.05 Ann Phoya: Retired Head of Planning and Director of Nursing at the Ministry of Health & co-lead on a Scottish Government Project to develop a sustainable model for community midwifery services in Malawi.
13.20 Professor Dileep Mavalankar: Director of the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, international consultant to WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank and a member of numerous scientific committees.
13.35 Q&A session
- Hosted by
- IMMPACT
- Venue
- Polwarth Building, Med Chi Hall, Foresterhill