Live broadcast CDC - Strategies to Improve Child Survival 9 am -EDT. Thursday 15 July

[Guest guest]

Watch the live broadcast of CDC Public Health Grand Rounds, entitled Strategies

to Improve Child Survival Globally - to be held on Thursday, July 15, at 9 a.m.

(EDT).

 

With millions of preventable deaths of children under 5 years of age each year,

the challenges are rooted in economic, cultural, and geographic barriers –

half of all child deaths occur in Africa and 42% in Asia.  Child mortality is

not only a key indicator of a nation's health, but is also a broad reflection of

a nation's development.

This fact was a driving force in the creation of the UN's Millennium Development

Goals, which identified child mortality, and its closely related goals of

maternal health and infectious diseases, as three of the eight top priorities

for the world.

In response to this global health burden, efforts are underway to increase

access to vaccines, clean water, better nutrition, and other resources that will

ultimately benefit the health of children around the globe.

 

This session of Public Health Grand Rounds will review progress in recent

decades, assess our continued challenges, and discuss new and important

strategies aimed at increasing child survival throughout the world.

 

Watch the live broadcast at:

www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds

(video archive to be posted 48 hours after the presentation).

For questions or comments, please email grandrounds@... 

 

R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.

Director, CDC, and

Administrator, ATSDR

 

Strategies to Improve Child Survival Globally

 

DeCock, MD, F.R.C.P.

Director, Center for Global Health (CDC)

Whitney MD, MPH

Acting Chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch,

National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (CDC)

 

Quick, MD, MPH

Medical Epidemiologist, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental

Diseases

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CDC)

 

Brent Burkholder, MD, MA

Director, Global Immunization Division

National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (CDC)

 

Discussant:

Binkin, MD, MPH

Chief, Policy and Evidence Unit

UNICEF