With additional support from:

Dear Colleagues:

You are cordially invited to attend the 2013 Global Newborn Health Conference:

Accelerating the Scale-Up of Maternal and Newborn Health Interventions to

Reduce Mortality, to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa on 15-18 April 2013,

with a welcome reception and optional Nutrition Pre-Conference Workshop on 14

April 2013.

Organized by USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program

(MCHIP), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-supported Save the Children’s

Saving Newborn Lives (SC/SNL) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF),

in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), with additional support

from John Snow, Inc., the Laerdal Foundation, and Jhpiego, this four day meeting

will focus on accelerating the scale-up of high-impact interventions that address the

three major causes of newborn mortality: prematurity, birth asphyxia and infection.

The meeting will bring together Ministry of Health policymakers and program

managers, professional associations (in particular pediatric, obstetric and midwifery

associations), NGOs engaged in maternal and newborn health (MNH) at national

level, UN agencies, USAID missions and USAID-funded bilateral projects as well as

other donor-funded national MNH projects.

Overall meeting objectives include:

Review progress of newborn survival and health programming over the past

decade, including updates on global initiatives.

Provide technical updates on (a) evidence-based newborn health interventions

across the household to hospital continuum that address the three major

newborn killers, (b) updated global guidelines for specific interventions, such as

newborn resuscitation and postnatal care, and (c) linkages with select maternal

and child health, nutrition and family planning and related interventions.

Share in-country experiences in scaling-up newborn health interventions,

including health system strengthening issues, such as partnership

coordination, human resources, training, quality of care, logistics, supervision,

pay for performance, community health workers and monitoring and

evaluation.

Discuss research priorities for newborn health and promising new technologies

and innovative tools that would support newborn health programming at scale.

Nutrition Pre-Conference

Workshop

14 April

MCHIP and partners will hold

a pre-conference workshop to

discuss maternal anemia

control and calcium

supplementation—two high-

impact interventions that

reduce maternal, newborn,

and child mortality.

More information regarding

this workshop can be found on

the conference website.

Registration and a fee of

US$50/450ZAR are required.

14 April:

Welcome Reception, 19h00 – 21h00

Nutrition Pre-Conference

Workshop (Optional Event)

15 - 18 April:

Global Newborn Health

Conference 2013

Location:

Birchwood Hotel & OR Tambo

Conference Centre in

Johannesburg, South Africa

The meeting will be held in

English and French.

Successful outcomes of the conference would include:

Commitment by attendees to accelerate action on newborn programming in their

countries.

Candid sharing of challenges in introducing or scaling-up specific newborn

interventions and how these were/were not addressed.

South-to-south networking to share lessons learned and best practices.

Mobilization of broad ownership and support for the draft Global Newborn Action

Plan.

Visit Newborn2013.com to

register.

For more information,

contact

info@newborn2013.com.