PMNCH 2009 Events

Below, please find the full 2009 RMNCH calendar of events, with links to relevant websites and accompanying reports, when available

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January

• BRIEFINGS: Newborn Health: From Advocacy to Scale
  7 JANUARY - 8 JULY 2009 WASHINGTON DC
• COURSE: Innovation and health technology assessment: Improving health system quality
  26-31 JULY 2009, San Servolo, Italy
• MEETING: Italian Women Parliamentarians
  23 JANUARY 2009 GENEVA
• CONFERENCE: From Data to Impact: Using Health Data for Results Symposium
  28-29 JANUARY 2009 ARUSHA (Tanzania)
• CONFERENCE: Second Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation
  28-29 JANUARY 2009 BETHESDA USA
• E-DISCUSSION: E-forum on global public health
  29 January until 26 February2009 Internet

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February

• COURSE: Monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programmes
  2-18 FEBRUARY, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
• CONFERENCE: Innovation for Access, Web for Development
  11-13 FEBRUARY 2009 NEW YORK NY
• BRIEFING: Essential Nutrition Actions: Now More than Ever
  11 FEBRUARY 2009 WASHINGTON DC
• Sixth Board meeting, 19-20 February 2009
  Washington DC, USA
• MEETING: CanUSACLEN
  19-20 FEBRUARY 2009 WEST INDIES
• SEMINAR: Maternal, newborn and child health at a cross-roads - Where to go next?
  18 FEBRUARY 2009 WASHINGTON DC
• WEB CONFERENCE: Better evidence, better polices, better development results
  20 FEBRUARY 2009 at 10 a.m WASHINGTON DC time
• World Day of Social Justice
  20 FEBRUARY 2009 | NEW YORK NY
• CONFERENCE: Launching Maternal and Child Health: Opportunities for a New Era
  21-25 February 2009 WASHINGTON DC
• UN SPECIAL HIGH-LEVEL EVENT: Philanthropy and Global Public Health
  23 FEBRUARY 2009 NEW YORK NY
• Asia NGO Workshop: Strengthening the Impact of Asia's NGO Community Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Interventions - Immunization
  24-26 FEBRUARY 2009 | MANILA, PHILIPPPINES

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March

• MEETING: 53rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women
  2-13 MARCH 2009 NEW YORK NY
• WEBCAST PANEL: Why maternal health is not a political priority
  4 MARCH 2009 WASHINGTON DC
• HIGH LEVEL TASKFORCE ON INNOVATIVE INTERNATIONAL FINANCING FOR HEALTH SYSTEMS: Civil Society Forum
• CELEBRATION: International Women's Day
  8 MARCH 2009
• BRIEFING: Community Case Management: Reaching the Most Vulnerable Children
  11 MARCH 2008 WASHINGTON DC
• TASK FORCE ON INNOVATIVE INTERNATIONAL FINANCING FOR HEALTH SYSTEMS receives two Working Group Reports
• Global Course: Accelerating Progress Towards the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other Health Outcomes
  24 MARCH-4 APRIL 2008 WASHINGTON DC
  Application deadline: February 22, 2008
• SYMPOSIUM: 4th Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposium: From the birthplace to the workplace
  26 March 2009, Greensboro, USA
• MEETING: Commission on Population and Development, 42nd session
  30 MARCH-3 APRIL 2009 NEW YORK NY
• CONFERENCE: Fourth Southern African AIDS Conference
  31 MARCH-3 APRIL 2009 DURBAN (South Africa)

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April

• Second G20 summit
  1-3 APRIL 2009 | LONDON
• CELEBRATION: World Health Day
  7 APRIL 2009
• IPU/Countdown Special Session at the 120th IPU Assembly
  7 APRIL 2009 | ADDIS ABABA
• BRIEFING: Malaria: Scaling up Home-based Management for Children
  8 APRIL 2009 WASHINGTON DC
• CALL for PAPERS for Special Topic Meeting: Measuring health workforce inequalities: methods and applications
  The deadline for submission of abstract is 13 April 2009.
• E-CONFERENCE: Good practices in using DevInfo
  15 APRIL 2009 | INTERNET
• CONFERENCE: 6th Global Health and Development Conference
  18-19 APRIL 2009 | NEW HAVEN, Connecticut
• MEETING: African First Ladies Health Summit
  20-21 APRIL 2009 LOS ANGELES
• CELEBRATION: Save the Children Advocacy Day
  21-22 APRIL 2009
• CELEBRATION: Save the Children Week
  26 APRIL-2 MAY 2009
• CONFERENCE: 12th World Congress on Public Health: Making a Difference in Global Public Health: Education, Research and Practice
  27 APRIL-1 MAY 2009 ISTANBUL
• COURSE: The health service organization and management
• CONFERENCE: Clinical and Social Research on AIDS and Drug
  28-30 APRIL 2009, VILNIUS LITHUANIA

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May

• CONFERENCE: Humanization of Birth: Perinatal Ecology Based on Science
  1-5 may 2009 MONTEREY, MEXICO
• AU commits itself to the fight against child and maternal mortality
• Bali Seminar: Achieving the MDGs in Asia and the Pacific
  3 MAY 2009 | BALI, INDONESIA
• CELEBRATION: International Day of the Midwife
  5 MAY 2009
• CONFERENCE: Reducing Health Inequalities. What Do We Really Know About Successful Strategies?
  8-9 MAY 2009 | BERLIN
• CONFERENCE: International Conference on Prematurity and Stillbirth
  7 MAY 2009 | SEATTLE
• JOICFP/SONY Mother's Day Exhibition - Japan
  7-10 MAY 2009 | TOKYO
• Launch: Call to action on Diarrheal Disease
  12 MAY 2009 | WASHINGTON DC
• BRIEFING: Pediatric HIV and AIDS: The Path Ahead
  13 MAY 2009 WASHINGTON DC
• CONFERENCE: Better Evidence for a Better World
  18-19 MAY 2009 OSLO
• CONFERENCE: World Health Assemby, 18-22 MAY 2009
  Leaders urge World Health Assembly to invest in maternal health and health systems
• Briefing at the World Health Assembly: Investment needs in maternal, newborn & child health in Asia & Pacific
  21 MAY 2009 | GENEVA
• Health Care Professionals: Workshops documented and continued on national level
• CONFERENCE: 36th Annual International Conference on Global Health
  26-30 MAY 2009 | WASHINGTON DC

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June

• U.N. to convene global summit
  1-6 JUNE 2009 | NEW YORK
• CONFERENCE: African Health Worker Migration to Europe: Problems, Prospects, Policies, 4-7 June 2009
  4-7 JUNE 2009 LEIPZIG
• COURSE: Training modules online: International Program for Development Evaluation
  8 JUNE - 3 JULY 2009
• BRIEFING: Immunization: Rapid Scale-up and Institutionalization
  10 JUNE 2009 WASHINGTON DC
• Forum of the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr BAN Ki-moon: Advancing Global Health in the Face of Crisis
  15 JUNE 2009 | NEW YORK
• 65th Annual Clinical Meeting - Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  17-21 JUNE 2009 | HALIFAX, CANADA
• CONFERENCE: Global Economic Crisis
  1-2 APRIL 2009 | OSLO
• PMNCH Meeting: PA 3 - Essential commodities
  24-25 JUNE 2009 | GENEVA
• PMNCH Meeting: Contributing Partners PA 2 + 4
  26-27 JUNE 2009 | GENEVA
• CONFERENCE: New Directions for Welfare: A conference for economists and policy makers
  29 JUNE-1 JULY 2009 OXFORD UK
• WORKSHOP: MPS Fifth Orientation Workshop on "Maternal and Newborn Health Programming"
  29 JUNE-3 JULY 2009 | GENEVA SWITZERLAND
• Partners collaboration key to raise profile of maternal + child health in Asia
  30 JUNE 2009 | GENEVA

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July

• United Nations Economic and Social Council
  6-9 JULY 2009
• Knowledge for a change
  7-8 JULY 2009 | MONT SAINTE ANNE, QUEBEC
• BRIEFING: Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy: Operationalization through Integration
  8 JULY 2009 WASHINGTON DC
• Side-event at UN ECOSOC/ Geneva : Launch of new innovative financing tool
• CELEBRATION: World Population Day
  11 JULY 2009
• Seventh World Congress of the International Health Economics Association
  12-15 JULY 2009 | BEIJING
• G8 Italy 2009 - Partnership sends open letter to Leaders
• 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention
  19-22 JULY 2009 CAPE TOWN
• COURSE: 9th "Making Governance Gender Responsive" (MGGR) training course
  23-30 JULY 2009 Asian Institute of Management Conference Center (ACCM), Philippines
• African Women's Day
  31 JULY 2009

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August

• World Breastfeeding Week
  1–7 AUGUST 2009
• CONFERENCE: 4th Women in Africa and African Diaspora International Conference on Education, Gender & Sustainable Development in the Age of Globalization
  3-8 AUGUST 2009 | ABUJA, NIGERIA
• CONFERENCE: 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP)
  9-13 AUGUST 2009 | BALI
• Maternal, Newborn and Child (MNCH) Network for Asia and the Pacific
  10-11 AUGUST 2009 | BALI
• Consultation on the Application of Socio-cultural Approaches to Accelerate the Achievement of MDGs 4 and 5
  11-13 AUGUST 2009 | BALI
• Asian and the Pacific Regional Consultation on Maternal Health and Rights
  13-15 AUGUST 2009 | BALI, INDONESIA
• CONFERENCE: 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) - Statistics: Our past, present and future
  16-22 AUGUST 2008, DURBAN South Africa
• COURSE: Monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health programmes
  17 AUGUST-2SEPTEMBER 2009 ABERDEEN UK
• COURSE: Monitoring and Evaluation of Maternal and Neonatal Health Programmes
  17 AUGUST 2009 | ARUSHA, TANZANIA
• COURSE: Monitoring and Evaluation of Maternal and Neonatal Health Programs
  17 AUGUST-2 SEPTEMBER 2009 | ARUSHA, TANZANIA
• Latin American Regional Consultation on Cooperation in Maternal and Child Health
  24 AUGUST 2009 | SANTIAGO, CHILE
• MEETING: "Let’s Talk about Sex"
  27 AUGUST 2009 | THE HAGUE
• MEETING: WHO AFRO Regional Committee
  31 AUGUST-4 SEPTEMBER 2009 | KIGALI

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September

• CONFERENCE: Berlin Global NGO Forum on ICPD at 15
  2-4 SEPTEMBER 2009 BERLIN
• CONFERENCE: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Times of Economic Crisis
  7-8 SEPTEMBER 2009 | RIGA
• MEETING: WHO SEARO Regional Committee
  7-10 SEPTEMBER 2009 | KATHMANDU
• CONFERENCE: Australian Sexual Health Conference
  7-9 SEPTEMBER 2009 | BRISBANE
• WomenLead in repositioning reproductive health
  7-25 SEPTEMBER 2009 | WASHINGTON DC
• CONFERENCE: Exploring Evidence, Strengthening Action: Eastern and Southern Africa Symposium on Private Sector Responses to HIV and AIDS in the Workplace
  8-12 SEPTEMBER 2009 | NAIROBI
• CONFERENCE: The National Sexual Assault Conference
  9-11 SEPTEMBER 2009 | ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
• CONFERENCE: Parliamentary Network-Africa Public Health
  9 SEPTEMBER 2009 | ADDIS ABABA
• CELEBRATION: World Suicide Prevention Day
  10 SEPTEMBER 2009 | GLOBAL
• CONFERENCE: Women's History Conference 2009
  11-13 SEPTEMBRE 2009 | OXFORD, UK
• MEETING: WHO EURO Regional Committee
  14-17 SEPTEMBER 2009 | COPENHAGEN
• MEETING: Human Rights Council, 12th Session
  14 SEPTEMBER-2 OCTOBER 2009 | GENEVA
• PMNCH Consultation on 2009-2011 Advocacy Strategy and Workplan
  14 SEPTEMBER 2009 | LONDON
• CONFERENCE: United Nations General Assembly
  15 SEPTEMBER 2009 | NEW YORK
• CONFERENCE: Medicine 2.0 - How Social Networking and Web 2.0 Changes
• MEETING: WHO AFRO Regional Committee
  21-25 SEPTEMBER 2009 | HONG KONG
• SEMINARS
  21 SEPTEMBER 2009
• Clinton Global Initiative: Fifth Annual Meeting
  22-25 SEPTEMBER 2009 | NEW YORK
• CONFERENCE: High-level Event on Climate Change
  22 SEPTEMBER 2009 | NEW YORK
• PANEL DISCUSSION: Protecting Mothers and Children against AIDS - Call to Action for Maternal and Child Health
  23 SEPTEMBER 2009 | NEW YORK
• CONFERENCE: Launch of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance
  23 SEPTEMBER 2009 | NEW YORK
• Investing in Our Common Future: Healthy Women, Healthy Children
  23 SEPTEMBER 2009 | NEW YORK
• US to host next G20 world meeting in Pittsburgh
  24-25 SEPTEMBER 2008 | PITTSBURGH
• CONFERENCE: XXVIth IUSSP International Population Conference
  27 SEPTEMBER-2 OCTOBER 2009 | MARRAKECH
• MEETING: WHO AMRO/PAHO Regional Committee
  28 SEPTEMBER-2 OCTOBER 2009 | WASHINGTON
• CONFERENCE: Women and Politics in Asia: A Springboard for Democracy?
  29 SEPTEMBER-2 OCTOBER 2009 | HIDELSHEIM, GERMANY

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October

• MEETING: Technical meeting on "The Impact of Sexual and Reproductive Health Education in Developing Adolescents' Health"
  1 OCTOBER 2009 | BOGOTA
• MEETING: 2009 World Bank/International Monetary Fund Meetings
  2 OCTOBER 2009 | ISTANBUL
• SYMPOSIUM: Cross-Cultural Competency In Health Care
  2 OCTOBER 2009 | KANSAS CITY
• CONFERENCE: Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) Congress
  4-9 OCTOBER 2009 CAPE TOWN
• MEETING: WHO EMRO Regional Committee
  5-8 OCTOBER 2009 | FEZ
• CONFERENCE: 6th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health
  6-10 OCTOBER 2009 | VERONA, ITALY
• MEETING: Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Meeting
  7-8 OCTOBER 2009 | SANTIAGO, CHILE
• FORUM: 9th Annual Global Health Mini-University
  9 OCTOBER 2009 | WASHINGTON DC
• CONFERENCE: Why gender?
  9-10 OCTOBER 2009 | JYVASKYLA, Finland
• CELEBRATION: Commemoration event during the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly
  12 OCTOBER 2009 | NEW YORK
• CONFERENCE: Global Forum: "Think again, Think ahead! It is time for action, change and hope”.
  15-17 OCTOBER 2009 | DEAUVILLE, FRANCE
• Global campaign: Stand Up and Take Action
  16-18 OCTOBER 2009
• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
  17 OCTOBER 2009
• CONFERENCE: 5th Asia-Pacific Reproductive Health & Rights Conference
  18-20 OCTOBER 2009 | BEIJING
• CONFERENCE: Meeting Urban Health Needs through Innovative Research, Policies and Interventions
  19-23 OCTOBER 2009 | NAIROBI
• 121st Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly
  19-21 OCTOBER 2009 | GENEVA
• CONFERENCE: 9th World Congress of Perinatal Medicine
  24-29 OCTOBER 2009 | BERLIN
• CONFERENCE: Health Equity: Our Global Responsibility
  25-28 OCTOBER 2009 OTTAWA
• CONFERENCE: Health Equity: Our Global Responsibility
  25-28 OCTOBER 2009, OTTAWA
• CONFERENCE: 1st Annual Learning Forum on Global Health Research
  25 OCTOBER 2009 | OTTAWA
• MDG Ministerial Event
  26 OCTOBER 2009 CAIRO
• CONFERENCE: Promoting health and development: closing the implementation gap
  26-30 OCTOBER 2009 | NAIROBI
• CONFERENCE: 4th International Parliamentarians' Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD (IPCI)
  27-28 OCTOBER 2009 | ADDIS ABABA
• MEETING: The Impact of Sexual and Reproductive Health Education in Developing Adolescents’ Health, Social and Economic Assets
  27-29 OCTOBER 2009 | BOGOTA
• OECD explores maternal health indicator for health
  27-30 OCTOBER 2009 | BUSAN, KOREA
• CONFERENCE: Eastern European and Central Asia AIDS Conference
  28-30 OCTOBER 2009 | MOSCOW
• CONFERENCE: 2009 United States Conference on AIDS
  29-31 OCTOBER 2009 | SAN FRANCISCO

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November

• Call for applications: Second IEA Capacity Building Conference for the Global South
  1-14 APRIL 2010 | RIYADH
  Deadline for application: 1 NOVEMBER 2009
• CONFERENCE: Network of African Youths for Development Summit
  2-7 NOVEMBER 2009 | NAIROBI
• CONFERENCE: Breast Cancer Symposium
  3-5 NOVEMBER 2009 | BOSTON, MASS.
• CONFERENCE: Improving Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
  9-11 NOVEMBER 2009 | ACCRA, GHANA
• CONFERENCE: Screening and Risk Prediction in Women’s Health
  9-11 NOVEMBER 2009 | LONDON
• CONFERENCE: 2nd International Meeting Innovations and Progress in Healthcare for Women
  9-11 NOVEMBER | LONDON
• CONFERENCE: 11th IUSTI World Congress Africa 2009
  9-12 NOVEMBER 2009 | CAPE TOWN
• CONFERENCE: 12th European AIDS Conference
  11-14 NOVEMBER 2009 | COLOGNE
• CONFERENCE: ICPD at 15 Regional Forum for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
  12-13 NOVEMBER 2009 | ISTANBUL
• CONFERENCE: 3rd Asia Pacific Congress on Controversy in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Infertility
  12-15 NOVEMBER 2009 | BEIJING
• White Ribbon Annual General Meeting
  12-13 NOVEMBER 2009 | DAR ES SALAAM
• MNCH 2009 Events
• CONFERENCE: International Conference on Family Planning: Research And Best Practices
  15-18 NOVEMBER 2009 | KAMPALA
• CONFERENCE: Forum 2009: Innovating for the health of all
  16-20 NOVEMBER 2009 HAVANA (Cuba)
• CONFERENCE: HIV/AIDS Capacity Building Summit
  17-18 NOVEMBER 2009 | WASHINGTON DC
• To tweet or not to tweet? Exploring the role of social media in public health
  18 NOVEMBER 2009 | WASHINGTON DC
• MEETING: GAVI Alliance Partner's Meeting
  19 NOVEMBER 2009 | VIETNAM
• CONFERENCE: Foro Latinoamericano sobre VIH/SIDA
  21-23 NOVEMBER 2009 | LIMA
• CONFERENCE: Ensuring Access to Health for All Women and Newborn - The Role of Parliaments
  23-25 NOVEMBER | KAMPALA
• ONLINE DISCUSSION: Women and health: How far have we come since Beijing?
  23 NOVEMBER 2009-31 JANUARY 2010 | ONLINE DISCUSSION
• MEETING: Commonwealth Heads of Government
  27-29 NOVEMBER 2009 | PORT OF SPAIN
• CONFERENCE: United Nations Climate Change Conference
  30 NOVEMBER-11 DECEMBER 2009 | COPENHAGEN

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December

• CELEBRATION: World AIDS Day
  1 DECEMBER 2009 | GLOBAL
• CONFERENCE: 2nd Global Partners Meeting on Neglected Tropical Diseases
  DECEMBER 2009 | GENEVA
• Special maternal, newborn & child health stakeholder event
  2 DECEMBER 2009 | OTTAWA
• WEBCAST: Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health on Integrating HIV/AIDS and Maternal Health Services – First in a Series
  3 DECEMBER 2009 | WASHINGTON DC
• Breakfast event: 3 December 2009
  3 DECEMBER 2009 | OTTAWA
• CONFERENCE: 9th Annual Congress of Midwives South Africa
  1-4 DECEMBER 2009 | BLOEMFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA
• COURSE: Monitoring and Evaluation of Neonatal Health Programmes
  6 DECEMBER 2009 | DHAKA, BANGLADESH
• WHO Orientation Workshop: "Maternal and Newborn Health Programming"
  7-11 DECEMBER 2009 | GENEVA
• CONFERENCE: Fourth International Jerusalem Conference on Health Policy, "Improving Health and Health Care:
  7-10 DECEMBER 2009 | JERUSALEM
• WHO: Maternal + Newborn Orientation Workshop
  7-9 DECEMBER 2009 | GENEVA
• 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15)
  7-18 DECEMBER 2009 | COPENHAGEN
• CONFERENCE: International Conference on HIV/AIDS current issues
  8 DECEMBER | YEREVAN
• CELEBRATION: Human Rights Day
  10 DECEMBER
• CONFERENCE: Enhancing Human Dignity - The Role of NGO's
  10-13 DECEMBER 2009 | MANILA
• CHNRI International Essay Contest 2009: “From Research to Evidence-based Policy”
  Deadline for applications: 11 DECEMBER 2009
• Globalization and Health: The Role of Knowledge in an Interdependent World
  15 DECEMBER 2009 | BETHESDA, Maryland, USA
• LECTURE: Globalization and health: The role of knowledge in an interdependent world
  15 DECEMBER 2009 | BETHESDA, MD
• PMNCH: HCP meeting in Amman, Jordan
  17 DECEMBER | AMMAN, JORDAN

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