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Time Session # Session Title Session Detail Presenter(s) Duration (hours)

Welcome Reception Sunday, April 14, 2013 19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception Welcome Address, cocktails and appetizers TBD, South Africa MOH 2:00

Day 1: Where we've been and where we're going Monday, April 15, 2013

8:30-10:30 1A Opening Ceremony: The global commitment to reducing newborn deaths and ensuring basic newborn care for all newborn infants

Plenary: Presentations Moderator: TBD (potential celebrity)

2:00 1) Opening remarks TBD from USAID, UNICEF, WHO, MCHIP,

and Save the Children 2) Purpose and objectives of conference Joseph de Graft-Johnson

3) Opening Keynote Address Gary Darmstadt

10:30-11:00 break 0:30

11:00-12:45 1B Scaling-up national newborn programs: Country progress and future opportunities

Plenary: Facilitated panel presentation & discussion Moderator: TBD

1:45 1) Malawi Enelesi Kachule, Malawi MOH/RHU

2) Nepal TBD

3) El Salvador TBD, El Salvador MOH

12:45-13:45 lunch 1:00

13:45-15:15 1C Reaching every newborn: Delivering an integrated maternal and newborn health care package


1:30

1) Overview of framework for newborn health continuum of care package TBD, WHO

2) Facility Vinod Paul (Tentative)

2) Community Abhay Bang (Tentative)

3) Opportunities & Challenges Nonhlanla Dlamini (Tentative)

15:15-16:15 1D Country experiences in delivering an integrated maternal and newborn package


1:00 1) Rwanda Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda MOH (Tentative)

2) Nicaragua (or other LAC country) TBD, URC/ASSIST

3) Egypt TBD

16:15-16:45 break 0:30

16:45-17:30 1E Scaling-up newborn programs: Draft Global Newborn Action Plan Plenary: Presentation & discussion TBD 0:45

EVENING SESSIONS 19:00 - 21:00

1F Welcome Dinner Speech, cocktails, dinner and entertainment TBD 2:00

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Day 2: The Three Leading Causes of Newborn Mortality Tuesday, April 16, 2013

8:30-9:30 2A Maternal interventions to reduce mortality and Basic Newborn Care Plenary: Presentation Zulfiqar Bhutta (Tentative) 1:00

9:30-10:00 2B Prevention and care for babies born too soon Plenary: Presentation Joy Lawn 0:30

10:00-10:15 Announcements and guidance on concurrent sessions (TBD) 0:15

10:15-10:45 break 0:30

Concurrent sessions on the prevention and management of the three leading causes of newborn mortality Birth Asphyxia Pre-Term Births and Low Birth Weight Babies Infection

10:45-11:45 C1 Better labor practices to prevent birth asphyxia and fresh stillbirths (Jeffrey Smith)

1) Kangaroo Mother Care: The evidence and country experience (Nathalie Charpak [Tentative])

Community case management of newborn infection in Bangladesh (Kaosar Afsana)

1:00 2) Kangaroo Mother Care: Multi-country evaluation (Anne-Marie Bergh [Tentative])

11:45-12:45 C2

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion Country experiences with HBB: (Moderator: TBD)

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion 1) Regional approach to KMC in LAC: (Moderator: TBD)

1) Overview of prevention and management of maternal infection to prevent newborn sepsis (Laura Fitzgerald)

1:00 1) Tanzania's HBB program (Georgina Msemo, Tanzania MOH [Tentative])

a) Goldy Mazia

b) Jorge Hermida

c) Nathalie Charpak (Tentative) 2) Increasing coverage and improving quality of facility-based management of newborn infections (Anita Zaidi [Tentative])

2) Bangladesh's HBB program (Prof Shahidullah [Tentative])

2) Malawi's KMC experience (Richard Luhanga [Tentative])

12:45-13:45 lunch 1:00

13:45-14:45 C3

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion (Moderator: TBD) Moving innovations from idea to impact: Case studies on innovations to prevent and manage asphyxia

1) Overview of prevention and management of pre-term births (John Varallo)

1) Country adaptation of chlorhexadine: The evidence (TBD)

1:00 1) Upright resuscitator (TBD)

2) Antenatal corticosteroids: The evidence and its adoption by developing countries (Fernando Althabe [Tentative])

2) The United Nations Commission Action Plan for chlorhexadine (Renee Van de Weerdt [Tentative])

2) NeoNatalie and MamaNatalie (TBD, Laerdal)

3) Digital partograph (Harshad Sanghvi [Tentative])

4) Odon Device (TBD, WHO Argentina)

5) Improved fetal monitoring ultrasound (TBD, GE)

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14:45-15:45 C4 WHO updates on resuscitation (TBD, WHO)

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion (Moderator: TBD) Moving innovations from idea to impact: Country case studies on innovations to prevent and manage pre-term births and low birth weight babies

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion Country experiences with chlorhexadine: (Moderator: TBD)

1:00 1) Bubble CPAP (Elizabeth Molyneux [Tentative])

1) Nigeria (Nosa Orobaton [Tentative]) 2) Protein urea self-test pen for pre-eclampsia (TBD)

3) JHU study on identifying pre-term babies (Cici Lee [Tentative]) 2) Nepal (Leela Khanal [Tentative])

15:45-16:15 break 0:30

16:15-17:30 C5

1) Data on and outcomes for asphyxiated newborns (TBD)

Maternal and infant nutrition practices affecting the newborn:

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion Research Updates: (Moderator: TBD)

1:15

2) Facilitated panel presentation & discussion Challenges in collecting data: (Moderator: TBD)

1) Facilitated panel presentation & discussion The impact of maternal nutrition on the newborn: (Moderator: TBD)

1) WHO multi-country study on newborn infection treatment regimen (Rajiv Bahl [Tentative])

a) Tanzania (TBD) a) Overview (Usha Ramakrishnan [Tentative])

b) Dominican Republic (TBD) b) Iron supplementation and neonatal mortality (Parul Christian or Michael Dibley [Tentative])

2) Ethiopia COMBINE Study (Tedbabe Degefie [Tentative])

c) India (Anju Puri)

2) Optimal feeding practices for low birth weight babies (TBD, WHO)

3) Infant Feeding Buddies strategy (TBD, South Africa MOH)


2C (concurrent sessions)

1) Skills/Knowledge Sessions

Sills/Knowledge Sessions will last for 30-40 minutes each. Participants will rotate between sessions for 2 hours. Skills/Knowledge Sessions will be on HIV/PMTCT, Malaria in Pregnancy, Newborn Health in Emergencies, mHealth, Monitoring and Evaluation, Kangaroo Mother Care, and Helping Babies and Mothers Survive.

2:00

2) Sources of care: Care-seeking behaviors for newborns and older children

Target Audience: Country level program designers/implementers and global technical advisors Session Contents: The issues around care-seeking behaviors and how they relate to program design and implementation, and SNL data regarding sources of care for newborns.

Steve Hodgins and Steve Wall

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Day 3: Systems and Implementation Wednesday, April 17, 2013

8:30-10:30 3A Systems aspects of delivering newborn care at scale

Plenary: Presentations Moderator: Ishtiaq Mannan

2:00

1) How to make system-wide changes for newborns

Charles Mwansambo, Malawi MOH (Tentative)

2) Quality of care Mike English (Tentative)

3) Task shifting and implications for newborn care TBD, WHO

4) Linking maternal and newborn health TBD, ICM

10:30-11:00 break 0:30

11:00-12:45 3B Scaling-up newborn programming at the national level: Agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation


1:45 1) Ethiopia TBD

2) Vietnam TBD

3) India TBD

4) Iran TBD

12:45-13:45 lunch 1:00

13:45-14:15 3C Improving the availability and effective use of essential newborn health commodities: The UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities

Plenary: Presentation Mickey Chopra (Tentative) 0:30

14:15-15:15 3D (concurrent sessions)

1) Monitoring delivery of newborn health services at country level

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion Moderator: Ngashi Ngongo, UNICEF (Tentative)

1:00

1) Overview on incorporation of newborn health into household surveys Tanya Guenther or Deborah Sitrin

2) Rollout of community HMIS Emmanuel Chimbalanga (Tentative) 3) Facility-based HMIS TBD

2) Changing newborn care practices: Successful strategies to change caregiver practices

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion Moderator: Angela Brasington 1) Pakistan Amanullah Khan 2) Ghana TBD

3) Increasing institutional childbirth and early discharge home: Implications for mothers and newborns

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion Moderator: TBD 1) India TBD 2) Cambodia TBD

3) Democratic Republic of the Congo TBD

15:15 - 15:45 break 0:30

15: 45 - 16:30 3E Overview of service delivery approaches and strategies Plenary: Presentation TBD 0:45

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16:30 - 17:30 3F (breakout of 3E)

1) Home-based basic newborn care: Country successes and challenges

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion Moderator: TBD

1:00

1) Bangladesh Imteaz Mannan (Tentative)

2) Honduras TBD, ChildFund

3) Ethiopia M. Mehret, Ethiopia MOH (Tentative)

2) Facility-based basic newborn care: Country successes and challenges

Facilitated panel presentation & discussion Moderator: TBD

1) Uganda TBD

2) Philippines TBD

3) Mozambique TBD


3G (concurrent sessions)

1) Around the World Marketplace 20 tables will be set up for exhibitors to present/demonstrate their unique innovation/approach/intervention

Final list of exhibitors TBD

2:00 2) Global Newborn Action Plan country consultation *Invitation only* Yogan Pillay, South Africa MOH

(Tentative) 3) Discussion on chlorhexadine for interested countries Chlorhexadine Working Group

Day 4: Research Priorities and Next steps Thursday, April 18, 2013

8:30-9:00 4A Results from newborn research priority-setting by the WHO expert group using CHNRI Plenary: Presentation Igor Rudan or Rajiv Bahl (Tentative) 0:30

9:00-10:30 4B Country sharing of information learned to scale up newborn programming


1:30 1) country 1 TBD 2) country 2 TBD

3) country 3 TBD

10:30-11:00 break 0:30

11:30 - 13:00 4C Closing Ceremony Plenary: Presentation TBD 1:30

12:30 - 13:30 lunch 1:00

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