Join us on Wednesday, August 27th, from 10:00 to 11:15 am (Washington DC time) on the webinar " Measuring What Matters: Advancing Early Childhood Development Monitoring in the Americas. Launch of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) Package for the Americas" co-organized by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Inter American Development Bank (IDB).
The Global Scales for Early Development (GSED), developed by World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with global experts, responds to this need. GSED provides validated instruments to measure the holistic development of children under 36 months at the population and programmatic level. Until now, most available tools were limited in scope or inappropriate for use in diverse settings.
The webinar's objective will be to introduce and disseminate the contents of the GSED tools, now available in English and Spanish (coming soon in Portuguese), and to discuss their value for governments, researchers, and practitioners aiming to strengthen child development monitoring systems in the Americas. It will highlight country experiences using GSED tools in research and public health practice and explore strategies to promote the adoption of standardized early childhood development (ECD) monitoring approaches.
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Target audience
- Ministries of Health across the Americas
- National teams responsible for early childhood monitoring and vital statistics
- Ministries of Social Protection and ECD agencies
- GSED 2.0 study researchers (Chile, USA, Brazil)
- WHO Department of Brain Health
- Multilateral organizations: UNICEF, IDB, and others
- Academia and public health professionals
Agenda
Activity and panelists
Opening remarks
Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr., Director, PAHO/WHO
Welcoming remarks
Dr. James Fitzgerald, Director, Health Systems & Services (HSS), PAHO/WHO
Dr. Pablo Ibarrarán, Division Chief, Social Protection and Labor Markets, IDB
The importance of early childhood development and the need for robust measurement
Dr. Vanessa Cavallera, Technical Officer, Brain Health Unit, WHO
Presentation of the GSED package: content, use cases, and access
Dr. Paula Caporal, International Consultant on Child Health, HSS/HL, PAHO/WHO
Country perspective and reflections from research teams (panel with Q&A)
-Chile: Dr. Paula Bedregal, Professor, School of Public Health, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
-Brazil: Dr. Alexandra Bretani, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo
-Peru: Ms. Kristen Hinckley, Early Childhood Development Specialist, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
-USA: Dr. Susanne Martin Herz, Professor and Director, Division of Developmental Medicine, Department Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
Country perspective and reflections from Representative from Ministry of Health (panel with Q&A)
Moderator: Dr. Sonja Caffe, Unit Chief a.i., HSS/HL, PAHO/WHO
Ministry of Health:
Costa Rica: Dr. Arias Montero, Child Research and Development Unit of the Technical of CEN-CINAI.
Ecuador- Andrea Molina Vera, General Coordinator for Technical Innovations in Metrics and Information Analysis at the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC)
Closing remarks
Dr. James Fitzgerald, Director, Health Systems & Services (HSS), PAHO/WHO