(NIC-P)
Scaling-up Newborn, Infant and Child Health Programs: the Global Mandate

This session will present state-of-the-art newborn child health interventions and show how various UN and donor agencies and governments are addressing opportunities and challenges to scale-up newborn and child health programs. This session will also highlight some of the best practices and program approaches that will be presented in the concurrent technical sessions during the course of this week. Read Session Abstract

Panelists
Vinod Paul, Neonatologist, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
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Nancy Terreri, Senior Advisor and Team Leader, UNICEF, New York
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Mary Taylor, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle
Presentation

Alfred Bartlett, Senior Advisor for Child Survival, USAID, Washington
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Jose Martines, Coordinator, Newborn and Child Health Team, WHO, Geneva
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Y.V. Pradhan, Director, Child Services, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health
Presentation

(NIC-1)
Essential Care for All Newborns

This session will feature successful examples from three countries in South Asia, each demonstrating community-based approaches to increase use of essential newborn care and improve newborn survival. The session will also provide evidence and experience on how to increase use of essential newborn care interventions in rural settings with weak health systems and strong adherence to traditional practices. Read Session Abstract

Panelists
Stephen Wall, Senior Newborn Health Advisor, Saving Newborn Lives, Washington 
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Shams El-Arifeen, Head, Child Health Unit, Public Health Sciences Division, ICDDR, Bangladesh
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Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, The Husein Lalji Dewraj Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
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Bal Krisna (B.K.) Suvedi, Director, Family Health Division, Department of Health, Nepal
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(NIC-2)
Let the Low Birth Weight and Preterm Babies Live!

This session will share the global evidence for Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), and present how some countries are adopting this low-cost but effective approach to care for newborn care. Read Session Abstract

Panelists
Nancy Sloan, Columbia University, New York, USA
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Nathalie Charpak, Fundacion Canguro, Bogota, Colombia
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Vishwajeet Kumar, Project Director, King George Medical College, Lucknow, India
Johns Hopkins University
Presentation

Rekha Udani, King Edwards Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
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(NIC-3)
Newborn Infection Prevention and Management in Resource Poor Settings

This session will present recent successful experiences with community-based prevention and management of newborn infections. (Read Session Abstract)

Panelists
Abdullah Baqui, Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
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Abhay Bang, Founder and Director, SEARCH, India
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Penny Dawson, MINI Project, Nepal
Dr. Nawraj Subha Public Health Administrator, Jhapa District Public Health Office, Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal
Presentation

Ishtiaq Mannan, ICDDR, Bangladesh
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Zulfiqar Bhutta, The Husein Lalji Dewraj Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
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(NIC-4)
Infant Feeding Practices

This session will highlight national-scale programs that successfully incorporated activities to improve infant and young child feeding practices and are now confronting real challenges to their sustainability. (Read Session Abstract)

Panelists
Jean Shaikh, Project Director, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
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Pak Soekirman, Institut Pertanian, Indonesia
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Laxmikant Palo, Knowledge to Practice Advisor, Vistaar Project, India
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Complementary Feeding
Promising Practices
Complementary Feeding Evidence Review

(NIC-5)
Newborn Micronutrients

The session will discuss successful national-scale programs and will address the challenges to sustainability. Speakers will also highlight upcoming interventions, like newborn vitamin A dosing and multiple micronutrient powders, and their potential for scale-up. (Read Session Abstract)

Panelists
Ram Shrestha, Country Program Specialist, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project
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Rolf Klemm, Assistant Scientist, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Saskia de Pee, Scientific Advisor, WFP, Rome, Italy, and Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Netherlands
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Corazon Barba, Resident Advisor, A2Z- Philippines
Presentation
 

(NIC-6)
Community-based Management of Childhood Pneumonia: Key to Reaching Millennium Development Goal 4

This session will provide a review of pneumonia case management from the multi-country evaluation of IMCI. Participants will then hear diverse experiences in community-based treatment of pneumonia from three Asian countries, including two that have scaled-up, and one which is still in an early stage of policy review, based on a pilot program. (Read Session Abstract)

Panelists
Shams El Arifeen, Child Health Program Head, ICDDR, Bangladesh
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Steve Solter, Chief of Party, BASICS Cambodia
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Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, The Husein Lalji Dewraj Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Presentation

Penny Dawson, Child Survival Specialist, John Snow, Inc. 
Presentation

(NIC-7)
Revitalizing Diarrhea Case Management: Role of Zinc 

This session will briefly review the evidence for the use of zinc in diarrhea case management, focusing on 4 country experiences in diverse stages of implementation: from advocacy and early implementation to scaling-up. The role of the private sector will also be considered. Read Session Abstract

Panelists
Alfred Bartlett, Senior Advisor for Child Survival, USAID, Washington
Presentation

Mizlisa Vital, IMCI and Child Health Officer, Child Health Section, Ministry of Health, East Timor
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Heng Kheng, Health Services Department Manager, PSI Cambodia
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Dr. Yati Soenarto, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Pediatric Consultant for Gastro-Hepataology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
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Charles P. Larson, Director, Health Systems and Infectious Diseases Division, ICDDR, Bangladesh
Presentation

(NIC-8)
Newborn Resuscitation in Low Resource Settings

Through presentations and an interactive panel discussion, participants will learn about trials in India and Indonesia demonstrating feasible and effective approaches to providing resuscitation to newborns in home settings. The session will conclude with a recent global evaluation of simple newborn resuscitation devices for community and facility settings, and will demonstrate newborn resuscitators that are available in Asia and the Near East. Read Session Abstract 

Panelists
Abhay Bang, Founder and Director, SEARCH, India
Presentation

Iwan Ariawan, Consultant, PATH, Indonesia
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Trish Coffey, Program Officer, Health Tech, PATH
Presentation