HEARD Webinar Repository – Center for Immigrant, Refugee and Global Health at CUNY

Upcoming Webinars in the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Series

Advancing Postpartum Hemorrhage Care

This webinar will present the results from the Advancing Post Partum Hemorrhage Care Partnership’s implementation science activities in Malawi and Madagascar.

Health Program Evaluation Development and Implementation

This webinar will present lessons from health systems strengthening evaluations and implications for embedded evaluation capacity strengthening and cross-evaluation learning.

Urban Health in East Africa

This webinar will examine Implementation Science Priorities for health, nutrition and WASH among poor children and adolescents in urban setting. Case studies will be featured from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Previous Webinars

Respectful Maternal Care: Are we trending in the right direction?
A conversation about RMC Approaches and Routine Monitoring & Evaluation

25 May 2021 | 4:00-5:00 PM EAT (Nairobi)

The East, Central, and Southern Africa Health Community and the University of California San Francisco co-led a webinar entitled: “Respectful Maternal Care: Are we trending in the right direction?” This webinar was the third in the Accelerating Evidence to Use in Policy and Programs: Strengthening & Sustaining RMNCAH Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa webinar series. The event explored evidence, experiences and perspectives on routine monitoring and evaluation for respectful maternal care in Africa. This webinar was co-hosted by the East, Central, and Southern Africa Health Community and the University of California San Francisco.

Innovative Strategies in Family Planning: Valuable Lessons from East Africa

23 February 2021 from 4:00-5:00 PM EAT (Nairobi)

The East, Central, and Southern Africa Health Community and the University of California San Francisco co-led a webinar entitled: “Innovative Strategies in Family Planning: Valuable Lessons from East Africa.” This webinar was the second in the Accelerating Evidence to Use in Policy and Programs: Strengthening & Sustaining RMNCAH Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa webinar series. The event explored innovations that address access, misconceptions, and implementation strategies for new family planning methods, as well as featured a panel discussion hosted by Dr. Sandra McCoy.

Strengthening and Sustaining RMNCAH Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

8 December 2020 from 3:00-5:00 PM EAT (Nairobi)

The East, Central, and Southern Africa Health Community and the University of California San Francisco led the first webinar in a series entitled “Accelerating Evidence to Use in Policy and Programs.” The webinar series is co-hosted by Africa Academy for Public Health, Infectious Diseases Institute, Ifakara Health Institute, and the USAID HEARD Project, managed by University Research Co., LCC.

The event featured a discussion about the state of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) systems, services, and priorities in the region and highlighted stakeholder perspectives across a range of topics to be featured in the forthcoming webinar series, which include: family planning; high quality and respectful maternal services; nutrition and WASH vulnerabilities among the urban poor; and data-informed policy approaches to ending violence against childre