Agenda

All times are CET

Moderated by Mercy Juma, Senior Bilingual Correspondent, BBC News Africa, the event includes:  

• 14:00 - An Opening session featuring lived experience of Dr. Myrna Doumit, President of the Order of Nurses in Lebanon
• 14:05 - A Leadership Dialogue moderated by Rt Hon. Helen Clark, PMNCH Board Chair and Former Prime Minister of New Zealand with
  • Dr Jean-Jacques Mbungani, Minister of Public Health, Hygiene and Prevention, Democratic Republic of Congo
    
  • Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UNFPA
  • Aya Hrout, Program Director, Jordan Youth Innovation Forum
  • Wais Qarani, President, Afghanistan Nurses and Midwives Council
  • Shawn K Baker, Chief Nutritionist, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
• 14:55 - A Perspective from the frontline by Yana Panfilova, Co-Founder and CEO, Teenergizer, Ukraine
• 15:00 - A Keynote by H.E. Kersti Kaljulaid, UN SG’s Global Advocate for Every Woman Every Child, Former President of Estonia
• 15:05 - A Country Commitment Follow-up Session with an opening by:
  • Ted Chaiban, Global Lead Coordinator for COVID Vaccine Country Readiness and Delivery, UNICEF, WHO, GAVI 
  • Dr Margaret Agama-Anyete, Acting Director, Health, Humanitarian Affairs, and Social Development at the African Union,
  • A focus on:
    • Bangladesh
      • Ms. Meerjady Sabrina Flora, Additional Director General (Planning & Research), Directorate General of Health Services, Government of Bangladesh
      • Prof. Dr. Rowshan Ara Begum, Senior Gynaecology & Obstetrics specialist, former President Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, Bangladesh
      • Dr. Ezatullah Majeed, Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
    • Zimbabwe
      • Chipo Chimamise, Deputy Director, Maternal and Reproductive Health in the Ministry of Health and Child Care Zimbabwe
      • Itai Rusike, Executive Director, Community Working Group on Health
      • Clarissa Regede, Youth Engage
  • A closing by Juan Pablo Uribe, Global Director for Health Nutrition and Population at the World Bank and Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents
• 16:20 - Final remarks by Helga Fogstad, Executive Director of PMNCH and Lisa Hilmi, Executive Director of CORE Group
• 16:25 - Poem by Ms. Asmahan Ahmed, Somali-Canadian writer, poet, spoken-word artist, Somalia