Bridging Gaps & Building Futures : Afternoon Tea for Maternal and Child Health Advocates
Are you a maternal and child health advocate, fresh off the plane, and fighting off grogginess in advance Skoll week? If so, please join us for an energizing and caffeinating MNCH afternoon tea!
Every year, Skoll week brings the global community of social impact and global development leaders to Oxford. Among them, are dedicated champions of maternal, neonatal, and child health.
Approximately 287,000 women still die annually due to preventable pregnancy and childbirth complications, and hundreds of thousands more are left traumatized by devastating maternal morbidities. Despite this, we are facing a particularly austere funding landscape for MNCH.
It is essential that we make space for a dedicated conversation!
This gathering is designed as a unique opportunity for passionate leaders, doers, and funders in maternal and child health to engage in genuine conversations, build meaningful connections, and empower collective action.
Our goal is to foster informal, impactful dialogues, exploring new partnerships and innovative ways to advance women's health. To ensure a balanced and productive ecosystem-level discussion, we encourage each funder to bring a doer, and each doer to bring a funder.
To drive meaningful conversation, we suggest participants self-sort into three focus groups based on areas of interest:
Access to Health Care
Improving Quality of Care
Social and Behavioral Change
Discussion Points:
How can innovation be effectively integrated into MNCH and transitioned from novelty to standard practice?
Who are the current stakeholders setting the global MNCH agenda, and are they the right ones?
What storytelling strategies are necessary to build and enhance global support for MNCH?
This event is convened and hosted by Klau Chmielowska, Helen Davies, Seth Cochran, and Alanna Shaikh, and made possible with generous support from The Sidebar, Operation Fistula, Lafiya Nigeria, and Embrace Global.
Spaces are limited, so sign up quickly to be part of shaping the conversation for maternal and child health!