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Webinar: Achieving health equity - providing skilled breastfeeding support universally
Why investment in skilled breastfeeding support is essential to achieving equitable health outcomes
5 August 2020 13:00 – 14:30 UTC Time
In this webinar sponsored by the Global Breastfeeding Collective, WHO and UNICEF, key global leaders will discuss why investment in skilled breastfeeding support is essential to achieving equitable health outcomes. The audience will hear from funders, implementing organizations and national government level leaders.
The webinar will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation in French, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian.
Visit the event page to register.
Speakers include:
Moderators
- Dr Victor Aguayo, Associate Director, Programme Division, Chief, Nutrition Programme, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- Dr Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization (WHO)
Speakers
- Dr France Begin, Senior Advisor, Early Childhood Nutrition, UNICEF
- Ms Mudiwah Kadeshe, President, International Lactation Consultant Association
- Mrs Juliana Abdul Razak, Breastfeeding mother, Malaysia
- Her Excellency Mrs Samina Alvi, First Lady of Pakistan
- Dr Laurence Grummer-Strawn, Unit Head, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization
- Dr Amy E. Pollack, Director, Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Ms Helga Fogstad, Executive Director, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
- Dr Steve Wall, Senior Director, Newborn Health, Save the Children
- Dr Alma Golden, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development
- Her Excellency Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, First Lady of Ghana