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Launch of first joint stillbirth estimates by UN agencies
The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, comprising UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank Group will launch the report, A Neglected Burden: The Global Tragedy of Stillbirths, which presents the first joint global stillbirth estimates.
Speakers:
1. Mark Hereward, Associate Director for Data and Analytics, UNICEF
2. Dr Anshu Banerjee, Director for the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO
3. Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Chair of the International Stillbirth Alliance and Honorary fellow Stillbirth Centre for Research Excellence of the University of Queensland in Australia
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