Child Survival: Using Past Lessons to Inform Future Directions
Auxiliary Session—GHC Annual Conference
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- Child Survival: Its Roots and the Past—Jon Rohde
- Progress in Global Child Survival: Where are we Today?—Peter Salama
- Child Survival: Where will we be in 20 Years—Richard Greene
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The purpose of this session was to paint a mosaic of where Child Survival will evolve in the next 20 years by examining the past and where Child Survival is today. The presenters addressed the following elements of Child Survival from the prisms of the past, present and future:
- Technologies and interventions
- Policy and political issues affecting and promoting Child Survival
- Financing and resource factors
- Key research needed to promote Child Survival
This allowed attendees to draw lessons learned in Child Survival to answer the broader questions about how Child Survival has evolved, what are the challenges of today—new and old—and where it needs to be heading in the coming years. A distinguished panel reflected and interacted with each other to identify the critical elements of Child Survival in the past and on the road ahead:
- What were the drivers that enabled Child Survival programs to be effective?
- What were the necessary and sufficient conditions for successful Child Survival improvements?
- What are the remaining critical Child Survival issues?
- Are the challenges global or regional-specific?
- What should be the focus of Child Survival leading up to 2015?
The panel consisted of Peter Salama, UNICEF and Richard Greene, USAID; and included a presentation provided by Jon Rohde, MSH. The moderator was Ron Waldman of USAID.