Invitation Letter Second Annual Meeting of MotherNewBorNet

29.03.2006
 
Ref: MotherNewBorNet/01/06
 
Subject: Second annual meeting of MotherNewBorNet
 
Dear Madam/Sir:
 
We are very pleased to inform you that the USAID’s (United States Agency for International Development) BASICS (Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival) project, and ICDDR,B: center for Health and Population Research are jointly hosting the second annual meeting of MotherNewBorNetwith the aim to move research into practice to improve community-based maternal and newborn care.
 
MotherNewBorNet was established in April 2005 to facilitate translation of research into practice for ensuring the health and survival of mothers and newborns in the community. It is currently hosted by ICDDR,Bangladesh: Center for Health and Population Research with financial assistance from USAID through the Global Research Activity (GRA) of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Technical support to MotherNewBorNet is provided by USAID’s Global Health Bureau and its global projects including ACCESS, BASICS, ESD, JHU/GRA and POPPHI. The members of this network include organizations from Asia and Near East that are implementing maternal and newborn health programs.
 
The second meeting of MotherNewBorNet will be held at Delhi from July 9 to11, 2006. The key themes for this meeting will be: community based management of maternal and newborn infections (including maternal morbidity data, postpartum visitation schedule), prevention of post partum hemorrhage, birth spacing, and care of low birth weight babies. The objectives of this meeting are as follows:

• Provide technical update on research and programs for the health and survival of mothers and newborns in the community
• Identify gaps in research, program and advocacy to address maternal and newborn health as a dyad
• Reach consensus on steps to be taken by specific countries in the reasons to take maternal and newborn health interventions to scale
• Determine collaboration/partnership opportunities among the members of the network
• Build consensus on the future directions of MotherNewBorNet and identify key roles and responsibilities

We take great pleasure in inviting you, or a representative from your organization to participate in the meeting and join the focal persons from USAID/Global Health, USAID missions and representatives from other member organizations. Unfortunately, we do not have funds to support participant’s travel and perdiem and lodging and we hope that you will be able to use your project funds to participate.

We eagerly look forward to your participation and will appreciate receiving a response to this letter of invitation by March 31, 2006. We urgently need the number of people attending the meeting by March 31, 2006 so that we can block sufficient number of hotel rooms. By April 30, 2006 please also provide the contact details of you or the representative from your organization to the meeting so that we can immediately send the updated information on venue, accommodation arrangements, and administrative details. The contact details should include your email address, mailing address, telephone numbers and FAX numbers. Please let us know if you want to share information from your program or research relevant to the themes of the meeting.
 
For your response to this letter and additional information please contact Naomi Brill (nbrill@basics.org) with a copy to Malay Kanti Mridha (malay@icddrb.org).
 
Kind regards,
 
Marge Koblinsky
ICDDR,B: Center for Health and Population research
 
And
 
Indira Narayanan
Basics
 

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