Faster Together: Hope for Accelerating Neonatal Survival Across Africa with NEST360

7 April 2025 16:00 – 18:00 CET

For World Health Day 2025 we are sharing learnings from the NEST360 Alliance on how we can go faster together to improve neonatal survival across Africa, ensuring every newborn can have a healthy start and hopeful future. This live event will be hosted on Zoom and broadcast LIVE across NEST360 and Newborn Toolkit social media channels (LinkedIn and YouTube) 

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AGENDA

Welcome: World Health Day 2025 and Neonatal Mortality Progress  

Professor Joy Lawn (LSHTM + NEST360) 

NEST360 Alliance Overview

Professor William M. Macharia (AKU and NEST360 Kenya) 

Malawi’s National Neonatal Mortality Progress 

Dr Msandeni Chiume (NEST360)

Talk from a representative of Malawi's Ministry of Health

Dr Lillian Chunda (Chief of Health Services)

Q+A session on Malawi’s National Neonatal Mortality Improvements and its Impact 

  1. Dr Msandeni Chiume (NEST360)
  2. Dr Lillian Chunda (Chief of Health Services, Government of Malawi)

Panel Discussion: What is one thing we learn from Malawi or from NEST360 work in your own country setting on how African countries can go faster together to reduce neonatal mortality? 

  1. Professor Chinyere Ezeaka (LUTH and NEST360 Nigeria) 
  2. Mr Abiy Seifu (Addis Ababa University and SLL360 Ethiopia) 
  3. Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice University and NEST360)
  4. Anne Magege (ELMA)

Q&A + Closing Remarks