The health of women and children are critical for global development. However, information and data on measuring countries’ progress are limited given the variety of methodological challenges of measuring care around the time of birth, when most maternal and neonatal deaths and morbidities occur.
In 2015, the World Health Organization launched Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results (MoNITOR), a technical advisory group to WHO. The vision of MoNITOR is to facilitate measurement, align initiatives, and provide technical guidance to WHO. Ultimately, MoNITOR will support WHO to ensure harmonized guidance, messages, and tools so that countries can collect useful data to track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. MoNITOR is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Group members
Co-chairs
JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc., Boston, United States of America and Georgia
Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine University of Nairobi, Kenya
H6 Partners
Ginette Azcona
Research and Data Specialist, UN Women
Statistics Specialist, Research and Data Section, UN Women
Technical Adviser Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Senior Health Specialist, Mother and Newborn, Technical Manager, Global Financing Mechanism, GFF, Washington DC, United States of America
Experts
Team Lead, MERLA, Ivory Coast, RTI International Conakry, Guinea
Professor of Global Health, University College London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Maternal and Child Health; Professor of Global Child Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Health, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Deputy Director-General, Department of Women & Children's Health, National Health Commission (NHC), People's Republic of China.
Director of projects, Centre of Excellence in Woman and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Director, Iowa Registry for Congenital and Inherited Disorders Department of Epidemiology at the University of Iowa, Iowa, United States of America
Senior Data Scientist Rapid-cycle monitoring (FASTR), Global Financing Facility Secretariat, United States of America
Takeda Chair in Global Child Health and Deputy Director of the MARCH Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Deputy Director, Division of Global Health Policy and Research, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Tokyo, Japan
Ehsan Rahman
Scientist, Maternal and Child Health Division International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B)
Associate Director, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research, JHPIEGO India Country Office, India
Scientific Lead, Vulnerable Infant Feeding Portfolio, Ariadne Labs Landmark Center, Boston, United States of America
Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning USAID Advancing Nutrition, United States of America