Grand Rounds

The Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly series created to further strengthen CDC’s common scientific culture and foster discussion and debate on major public health issues. Each session of the Public Health Grand Rounds will focus on key issues and challenges related to a specific health topic, including cutting-edge scientific evidence and potential impact of different interventions. The sessions will also highlight how CDC is already addressing these challenges and discuss the recommendations for future research and practice.

Please contact us with any questions or comments on the Grand Rounds series.

For those interested in receiving training and continuing education credits/contact hours for the live broadcasts of Public Health Grand Rounds, please register at http://www2a.cdc.gov/TCEOnline.

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Upcoming Events:

• July 15, 2010 (Topic: Child Survival)
• August 19, 2010 (Topic: Vitamin D)
• September 16, 2010 (Topic: H1N1)

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July 2010:

“Strategies for Improving Global Child Survival”

Thursday, July 15, 2010
9 - 10a.m. (EDT)

Watch the live broadcast at:

• http://cdc.wl.miisolutions.net/live/cdc/6

For slower or dial-up connections:

• http://cdc.wl.miisolutions.net/live/cdc/7

NOTE: presention will be archived 48 hours following the live event

With millions of preventable deaths of children under 5 years of age each year, the challenges are rooted in economic, cultural, and geographic barriers – half of all child deaths occur in Africa and 42% in Asia. Child mortality is not only a key indicator of a nation’s health, but is also a broad reflection of a nation’s development. This fact was a driving force in the creation of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, which identified child mortality, and its closely related goals of maternal health and infectious diseases, as three of the eight top priorities for the world. In response to this global health burden, efforts are underway to increase access to vaccines, clean water, better nutrition, and other resources that will ultimately benefit the health of children around the globe.

This session of Public Health Grand Rounds will review progress in recent decades, assess our continued challenges, and discuss new and important strategies aimed at increasing child survival throughout the world.

Presented by:

Kevin DeCock, MD, F.R.C.P., Director, Center for Global Health (CDC)
Cynthia Whitney, MD, MPH, Chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (CDC)
Robert Quick, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CDC)
Brent Burkholder, MD, MA, Director, Global Immunization Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (CDC)

Discussants:

Nancy Binkin, MD, MPH, Chief, Policy and Evidence Unit, UNICEF

Facilitated by:

Tanja Popovic, MD, PhD, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
Shane Joiner, Communication Manager, Public Health Grand Rounds

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