Report of the sixth meeting of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition, 15-17 November 2022

Overview

The sixth meeting of the STAGE was convened from 15 to 17 November 2022 in Geneva by WHO departments of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (MCA), Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH).

The STAGE subgroups developed draft recommendations for two topics – maternal health innovation and climate change – and discussed some detailed guidance for the small and sick newborn care topic. In addition to the new topics, detailed updates were planned for and presented to the subgroups on school health, child and adolescent well-being, and risk stratification for predicting child mortality. A new working group was formed for anaemia and nutrition as per STAGE recommendations, and the comprehensive framework for anaemia was presented to the working group.