Protecting Quality of Life for Mothers and Babies

WHAT: Expert panel on "Healthy Mothers, Healthy Children: Emerging Public Health Issues in Newborn Health and Development," at the Pan American Health Organization. Leading experts on neonatal care and child development discuss strategies aimed at protecting the health and quality of life of mothers and children in the Americas.

WHEN: Friday, April 8, 9:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

WHERE: Pan American Health Organization, 525 23rd Street, NW, Room A, 2nd Floor.

WHO: Dr. Jose F. Cordero, Director, National Center on Birth Defects and Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Stanley Greenspan, Chairman, Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders; Dr. Nancy Green, Medical Director, March of Dimes; Susan Sheridan, President, Parents of Infants and Children with Kernicterus; Judith Jerald, National Early Head Start Coordinator, Head Start Bureau, Dr. Carissa Etienne, Assistant Director, PAHO; Anita Boles, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition; Dr. Ayman El-Mohandes, Chair, Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University School of Public Health; Dr. Alfredo Solari, Senior Health Adviser, Inter-American Development Bank.

WHY: World Health Day 2005 is dedicated to Healthy Mothers and Children, with a focus on saving lives. This panel looks at ways of ensuring quality of life and healthy development through improvements in newborn and child care and patient safety.