Care of the Small and Sick Newborn Community of Practice

Details: 

On March 2nd, the Care of the Small and Sick Newborn CoP will host a webinar in partnership with PATH exploring results from the neoLENS project, including approaches taken and learnings in establishing and strengthening newborn care units for small and sick newborns in Ethiopia, Malawi and Rwanda. 
This webinar aims to amplify the project learnings and innovations from these countries along their journey to establishing care. This webinar will feature special guests who will share experiences as well as implications of this work for informing the ongoing development of global operational models of care for the small and sick newborns.

Speakers:

• Goldy Mazia –Lead Advisor, Newborn Health, Save the Children USA
• Cyril Engmann – Senior Director of Quality and Program Impact and Institutional Official, PATH 
• Dr. Sudhir Maknikar – Director, Family Health, PATH India (moderator)

• Dr. Alinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando, Lecturer in Health Systems and Policy, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Malawi
• Dr. Jayendra Kasar – Senior Program Officer, PATH India
• Professor Bogale Worku, Executive Director at Ethiopian Pediatrics Society
• Professor Stephen Rulisa, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, School of Medicine & Pharmacy, University of Rwanda

• Introductions
• Overview of the neoLENS project case studies
• Panel discussion with country colleagues
• Tour of the neoLENS virtual experience
• Discussion and Q&A
• Wrap-up

More about the neoLENS Project

At the country level, descriptions of the approaches and evaluation of the success of establishing inpatient newborn care units for small and sick newborns have not been comprehensively documented and communicated. PATH has worked with stakeholders in Ethiopia, India, Malawi, and Rwanda to understand the approaches taken in establishing and strengthening newborn care units for SSN, and packaged their learnings in a format that can serve as a reference for other geographies. They have also collaborated with MASS Design to create an interactive virtual tour of a district-level newborn unit and its core components-- an opportunity for us to be transported to the field after having been home-bound for so long. This work will inform existing investments related to how to roll out a package of dedicated NICU services, and potential new complementary investments on packages of care at lower levels of the health system.

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