Calendar of events 2010

Below, please find the full 2010 MNCH calendar of events, with links to relevant websites and accompanying reports, when available

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January

• E-DISCUSSION: Women and Poverty
  11-22 JANUARY 2010 | NEW YORK
• COURSE: Monitoring and Evaluation of Maternal and Neonatal Health
  18 JANUARY 2010 | RABAT, MOROCCO
• MEETING: 126th WHO Executive Board Meeting
  18-23 JANUARY | GENEVA
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  19 JANUARY 2010
• CONFERENCE: First International Congress on Women's Health and Unsafe Abortion
  20-23 JANUARY 2010 | BANGKOK
• CONFERENCE: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010
  27-31 JANUARY 2010 | DAVOS, SWITZERLAND
• CONFERENCE: Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2010 - Global Health Information Forum
  27-31 JANUARY 2010 | BANGKOK

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February

• CONFERENCE: 4th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights
  8-12 FEBRUARY | ADDIS ABABA
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  10 FEBRUARY 2010
• Best Practices Award Nomination
  19 FEBRUARY 2010
• Connecting ideas and knowledge sharing on equity and health: PAHO/WHO Symposium
  24 FEBRUARY 2010
• CONFERENCE: 2010 NGO Forum for Women: Beijing + 15
  27-28 FEBRUARY 2010 | NEW YORK, NY

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March

• CONFERENCE: UN Commission on the Status of Women
  1-12 MARCH 2010 | NEW YORK
• CSW54: WHO panel discussion on women and health
  3 MARCH 2010 | NEW YORK
• CONFERENCE: Moving Ahead Together: Celebrating the Legacy, Shaping the Future of Maternal and Child Health
  6-10 MARCH 2010 | NATIONAL HARBOR, MD, USA
• MNCH all-party public forum on Canada’s Parliament Hill marks International Women’s Day
  8 MARCH 2010 | OTTAWA
• CONFERENCE: 29th Conference on Priorities in Perinatal Care
  9-12 MARCH 2010 | GOUDINI SPA, SOUTH AFRICA
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  10 MARCH 2010
• Partnership meeting in India focuses on achieving MDGs 4 & 5
  19 MARCH 2010 | NEW DELHI
• CELEBRATION: World Water Day 2010 - Communicating water quality challenges and opportunities
  Dates and Place of event
• CONFERENCE: International Conference on "Women and Youth in Arab Development "
  22-24 MARCH 2010 | CAIRO
• CONFERENCE: 5th Breastfeeding and Feminism - Expanding the public health perspective
  25-26 MARCH | GREENSBORO, NC
• Adding It Up: The costs and benefits of investing in family planning and maternal and newborn health  
  25 MARCH 2010 | OTTAWA
• CONFERENCE: 122nd IPU Assembly
  27 MARCH-1 APRIL 2010 | BANGKOK
• The role of parliamentarians in achieving MDGs 4 & 5
  29 MARCH 2010 | BANGKOK

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April

• CELEBRATION: World Health Day 2010
  4 APRIL 2010
• CONFERENCE: Cities and Women’s Health - Global Perspectives
  7-10 APRIL 2010 | PHILADELPHIA, USA
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  7 APRIL 2010
• Symposium: Public financing of health
  9 APRIL 2010 | LONDON, UK
• MEETING: 43rd session of the United Nations Population Commission
  12-16 APRIL 2010 | NEW YORK, NY
• MEETING: UN System Private Sector Focal Points Meeting
  13-14 APRIL 2010 | GENEVA
• Healthy girls and women= Healthy Africa
  14 APRIL 2010 | NEW YORK
• Launch
  14 APRIL 2010 | NEW YORK
• CONFERENCE: Geneva Health Forum - Globalization, Crisis, and Health Systems: Confronting Regional Perspectives
  19-21 APRIL 2010 | GENEVA
• MEETING: 2010 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group
  24-25 APRIL 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• CELEBRATION: World Malaria Day
  25 APRIL 2010
• G8 Development Ministers to meet in Halifax
  26-28 APRIL 2010 | HALIFAX, CANADA
• PMNCH Governance event: Board Meeting
  29-30 APRIL 2010

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May

• CONFERENCE: Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting
  1-4 MAY 2010 | VANCOUVER
• Programme for Global Paediatric Research Symposium & Workshop: From bench to all the world's children - Developing & delivering better health for every child
  3 MAY 2010 | VANCOUVER
• India holds national consultation on repositioning family planning
  5 MAY 2010 | NEW DELHI
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  12 MAY 2010
• Special Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Health meets in Geneva
  15 MAY 2010 | GENEVA
• CONFERENCE: 63rd World Health Assembly
  17-22 MAY 2010 | GENEVA
• CONFERENCE: 2nd International Feminist Congress - 100 Years of Gender and Social History
  19-22 MAY 2010 | BUENOS AIRES
• CONFERENCE: 11th ESC Congress "Culture, Communication, Contraception"
  19-22 MAY 2010 | THE HAGUE
• CONFERENCE: 2010 World Conference on Women and Sport 
  20-23 MAY 2010 | SYDNEY
• Civil Society Consultation - Investing in Our Common Future
  20 MAY 2010 | PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA
• REPORT: WHO Briefing on MDGs - Future directions
  20 MAY 2010 | WHO HEADQUARTERS, GENEVA
• TECHNICAL BRIEFING: Sixty-third World Health Assembly: MDGs - Future Directions
  20 MAY 2010 | GENEVA
• CALL: Research proposals from civil society organizations (CSOs) - Advancing health equity through research and practice
  23 MAY 2010
• Monitoring and evaluation of maternal and neonatal health
  24 MAY 2010 | KUALA LUMPUR
• World Progress in Maternal and Child Health
  24 MAY 2010 | WASHINGON DC
• CONFERENCE: XXII European Congress on Perinatal Medicine
  26-29 MAY 2010 | GRANADA, SPAIN

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June

• CONFERENCE: 66th Annual Clinical Meeting
  2-6 JUNE 2010 | MONTREAL QC
• Strengthening midwifery: the surest way to reach MDG 5
  5-6 JUNE 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• CONFERENCE: European Congress - Innovation in Health Assets Strategy, Architecture and Finance for Sustainable Healthcare
  6.9 JUNE 2010 | ROTTERDAM
• Countdown to 2015 at Women Deliver Conference
  7-9 JUNE 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• CONFERENCE: 2010 Women Deliver/Countdown to 2015
  7-9 JUNE 2010
• Women Deliver + Countdown Conferences open with promises for women + children
  7 JUNE 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opens Women Deliver Plenary
  7 JUNE 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• CONSULTATION: Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health at Women Deliver
  7 JUNE 2010 | WASHINGTON
• UNICEF’s new chief opens Countdown to 2015 main session with call for statistical and moral success
  8 JUNE 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  9 JUNE 2010
• Human Rights Council Consultative Lunch
  9 JUNE 2010 | GENEVA
• Niger Regional Health Care Professional Workshop and Mapping
  9-10 JUNE 2010 | NIAMEY, NIGER
• CALL FOR PAPERS: Supplement social determinants of health and data systems
  Deadline for submission: 1 JUNE 2010
• CONFERENCE: Global Health Goals & Metrics
  14-19 JUNE 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• Global Health Annual Conference: Global Health Goals & Metrics
  15 JUNE 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• Innovation, Partnerships, and the Next Chapter in Women and Children’s Health
  15 JUNE 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• CONFERENCE: 8th International Conference on Kangaroo Mother Care
  19-22 JUNE 2010 | QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
• Seventh WHO Orientation Workshop on Maternal and Newborn Health Programming
  21-25 JUNE 2010 | GENEVA
• CONFERENCE: Pacific Health Summit
  22-24 JUNE 2010 | LONDON
• CONFERENCE: UN Global Compact Leaders Summit: Building a new era of sustainability
  24-25 JUNE 2010 | NEW YORK
• Innovation for the Joint Action Plan - The Maternal and Newborn mHealth Initiative
  24 JUNE 2010 | LONDON, UK
• CONFERENCE: 2010 G8/G20 Summit
  25 JUNE 2010 | HUNTSVILLE, ONTARIO
  26-27 JUNE 2010 | TORONTO, ONTARIO
• COURSE: Health and social justice
  28 JUNE-2 JULY 2010 | SANTANDER, SPAIN
• United Nations Economic and Social Council
  28 JUNE-23 JULY 2010 | NEW YORK

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July

• Ministerial Roundtable Breakfast: Improving women's health: addressing the challenges
  1 JULY 2010 | NEW YORK
• Lunch time Seminar
  7 JULY 2010 | GENEVA
• MEETING: 46th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  12-30 JULY 2010 | NEW YORK
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  14 JULY 2010
• Women Speakers take action on maternal, newborn and child health
  16-17 JULY 2010 | BERN, SWITZERLAND
• CONFERENCE: Rights Here, Right Now: XVIII International AIDS Conference
  18-23 JULY 2010 | VIENNA
• HIV and Millennium Development Goals: Can We Do One Without The Other?
  18 JULY 2010 | VIENNA
• Parliaments in a world of crisis
  19-21 JULY 2010 | GENEVA
• African Union Summit on Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development
  19-27 JULY 2010 | KAMPALA, UGANDA
• UNAIDS/FAMILY CARE/UNFPA/UN FOUNDATION/PMNCH Press briefing
  19 JULY 2010 | VIENNA
• BREAKFAST PANEL: The UN Secretary-General's Joint Plan of Action for Women’s and Children’s Health, Investing in Our Common Future
  21 july 2010 | VIENNA, AUSTRIA

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August

• World Breastfeeding Week
  1-7 AUGUST 2010
• CONFERENCE: Special Ministerial Meeting for MDGs Review in Asia and the Pacific
  3-4 AUGUST 2010 | DJAKARTA
• CONFERENCE: International Pediatric Congress 2010
  4-9 AUGUST 2010 | JOHANNESBURG
• Health Care Professional Workshops: Latin American Region
  9-11 AUGUST 2010 | SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  11 AUGUST 2010
• COURSE: Training Monitoring and Evaluation of Maternal and Newborn Health
  23 AUGUST 2010 | MAKERERE UNIVERSITY
• 2010 Global Maternal Health Conference
  31 AUGUST 2010 | NEW DELHI

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September

• The role of business in improving women’s and children’s health
  1 SEPTEMBER 2010 | LONDON
• International roundtable explores human rights and maternal mortality
  2 SEPTEMBER 2010 | GENEVA
• CONFERENCE: Fourth ADEA International Women's Leadership Conference
  5-8 SEPTEMBER 2010 | SALVADOR, BRAZIL
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  15 SEPTEMBER 2010
• Women Deliver: Brunch for UN delegations to the MDG Summit
  19 SEPTEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK
• Secretary-General calls on leaders to attend Millennium Development Goals summit next September
  20-22 SEPTEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK
• Nigeria’s Progress on the Health MDGs
  20 SEPTEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK
• Achieving MDG 4: The power of vaccines and partnership to tackle the major child killers
  20 SEPTEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK
• World's women at the centre of achieving the MDGs
  20 SEPTEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK
• Women connect for health: Information & communication technologies (ICTs) in support of the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
  21 SEPTEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK
• 2010 Millennium Development Goals Summit Watch
  20-22 SEPTEMBER | NEW YORK
• CONFERENCE: Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting 2010
  21-23 SEPTEMBER 2010
• Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and synergies for achieving MDGs 4, 5 and 6
  21 SEPTEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK
• Saving mothers and children with malaria control: Count down to the MDGs
  21 SEPTEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK
• CONFERENCE: Global Congress of Maternal and Infant Health
  22-26 SEPTEMBER 2010 | BARCELONA, SPAIN
• Bridging the malaria gap: Saving children — supporting women
  22 SEPTEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK
• Message from the PMNCH Director - The Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health
  22 SEPTEMBER 2010 | UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
• Launch: Global Strategy Event
  22 SEPTEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK
• Health and Human Rights: The case of Maternal and Child Health
  29 SEPTEMBER 2010 | GENEVA
• African Parliamentarians transform commitments into action
  1-2 OCTOBER 2010 | JOHANNESBURG

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October

• MEETING: OECD Health Ministerial Meeting
  7-8 OCTOBER 2010 | PARIS
• CONFERENCE: World Bank/International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting
  9-11 OCTOBER 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  13 OCTOBER 2010
• CONFERENCE: 13th Biennal Meeting of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society
  23-26 OCTOBER 2010 | PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
• CONFERENCE: 7th International Conference for Neonatal Nurses (ICNN)
  24-27 OCTOBER 2010 | DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
• WRA: Haute couture for maternal lives
• CALL FOR PAPERS: Health and Human Rights in Disaster
  31 OCTOBER 2010

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November

• Partners keep MNCH in the spotlight at Canadian Conference on Global Health
  31 OCTOBER-3 NOVEMBER 2010 | OTTAWA
• Partnership is key to helping Africa’s women and children overcome health challenges
• Maternal mHealth Initiative (MMI) working session on innovative ideas to reduce maternal and child mortality
  10 NOVEMBER 2010 | WASHINGTON DC
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  12 NOVEMBER 2010
• PMNCH Partners' Forum: From Pledges to Action
• CONFERENCE: IVth Congress on Child and Adolescent Rights
  15-18 NOVEMBER 2010 | PUERTO RICO
• PMNCH Governance event: Board Meeting
  15 NOVEMBER 2010
• WHO: First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
  16-19 MOVEMBER 2010 | MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND

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December

• CONFERENCE: Women's Health in Asia
  3-5 DECEMBER 2010 | BEIJING
• New MNCH knowledge sharing portal launched
  13 DECEMBER 2010
• PMNCH Governance event: Executive Committee
  15 DECEMBER 2010

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