Discuss issues and share thoughts with like-minded individuals, and learn more about international projects around Toronto.
 

The Peter A Silverman Centre for International Health, Mount Sinai Hospital, the
Centre for International Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and the
Office of International Affairs, SickKids, invite you to participate in a Global Health Discussion Forum:  
  

Maternal & Reproductive Health in Bangladesh 

Wednesday, March 9, 12:00 p.m – 1:00 p.m.
7th Floor Conference Room, Office of International Affairs, SickKids
525 University Avenue (SE corner of University and Elm)

Please RSVP to: katie.johnson@sickkids.ca.

About the Maternal & Reproductive Health in Bangladesh project

With one of the world’s highest adolescent motherhood rates, unacceptably high rates of maternal mortality and pregnancy-related disability, and 90% of women giving birth at home with, at most, the help of an untrained attendant, Bangladesh creates a complex environment for maternal and reproductive health interventions.

Working in close partnership, the International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF) and local partner the Village Education Resource Centre (VERC), aim to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes through community-based programming focused on medical, cultural, and social interventions.
 

Project objectives include:

• Increase access to improved services provided through local Health Centres and Health Outreach Services
• Establish support, empowerment and training groups for women, youth and adolescent girls in project locations
• Improve awareness of, mobilization around, and community practices regarding sexual and reproductive health issues
• Increase awareness of healthy and hygienic environmental practices linked to maternal child health

 
About the Presenters

Bart Dickinson, MA International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs has worked as a project monitoring consultant for the better part of a decade, with a regional focus on both the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa.

Deanna Duplessis, MPH in Health Promotion from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, has extensive work experience as a program manager and fieldworker in the domains of international development and global health, with a specialization in women’s health, and to this end spent several years based out of Eastern Africa. Both are Program Officers for the International Development and Relief Foundation.

The Global Health Discussion Forum is a monthly gathering for members of the health care and educational communities, including physicians, nurses, researchers, teachers, students and others interested in global health. See our upcoming schedule and learn more about GHDF at Sickkids International.