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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is hosting a symposium on Maximising research impact today, 9/25/13 at the UN General Assembly in New York where the posters will be shared.
Introduction:
- Risk of death is highest during and immediately after birth.
- Assessing this risk, especially on the day of birth (day 0), is needed to prioritize timely, targeted interventions.
- Data challenges include underreporting, misclassification of lives births and stillbirths, as well as between days (especially day 0 and day 1).
- There are no systematic nationally-comparable estimates for risk by day during the first month (neonatal period). Research aim: To estimate the daily neonatal risk, focusing on the first day and week after birth, for 186 countries for 2012. Save the Children (SC) partnership
- SC produces an annual State of the World’s Mothers (SOWM) report launched on US Mother’s Day each year, with media outreach, but only 1 of 9 previous reports had covered newborn survival.
- We partnered with SC to develop and publish these risk estimates as original research in their 2013 SOWM report. Partnership aim: To increase research impact and reach by placing results in State of the World’s Mothers report.
To view the full poster, please download the resource.