On November 13, 2020 at 10:00am EST, IVAC will host a 90-minute panel, “Maintaining Progress on Childhood Pneumonia in the COVID-19 Era".
The COVID-19 pandemic now threatens global progress on preventing and treating childhood pneumonia, potentially reversing decades of health gains for the world’s most vulnerable children. Please join us for a panel discussion featuring leading scientists and child health advocates addressing the urgent need to maintain progress in fighting childhood pneumonia in the COVID-19 era.
https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W08ki_UTQOGi6YAwszQzbQ
Pneumonia claims the lives of more young children than any other disease – over 800,000 children under 5 each year worldwide are lost to this largely preventable infectious disease. The COVID-19 pandemic now threatens global progress on preventing and treating childhood pneumonia, potentially reversing decades of health gains for the world’s most vulnerable children. Please join us for a panel discussion featuring leading scientists and child health advocates addressing the urgent need to maintain progress in fighting childhood pneumonia in the COVID-19 era.
Panelists include:
Anuradha Gupta, MBA (Gavi)
Bryan N. Patenaude, ScD (IVAC)
Keith Klugman, MD, PhD (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Senjuti Saha, PhD (Child Health Research Foundation, Bangladesh)
Samir Saha, PhD (Child Health Research Foundation, Bangladesh)
Temie Giwa-Tubosun, MPA (Every Breath Counts)
Moderated by Cynthia Gorney (National Geographic Magazine)
Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA Coordinator, neil@hifa.org www.hifa.org
