Washington Leadership Council Symposium
Save the Children's Washington Leadership Council, a group of dedicated volunteers and supporters, is proud to host a symposium on global child survival featuring Save the Children's Survive to 5 initiative. The Council is honored to have a diverse panel discussing the needs and solutions of child survival internationally. Almost 10 million children under the age of five die each year. Many of these children die from preventable or treatable illnesses like pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria. Save the Children's Survive to 5 Campaign's goal is reduce child mortality for children under the age of 5 ultimately protecting protect 6 million children a year.
Charles MacCormack, CEO and President of Save the Children will welcome honored guests, panelists and participants.
Senator William Frist, Chairperson of the Save the Children Survive to 5 Campaign, will give opening remarks addressing the need to build a movement to raise awareness of the urgent need to reduce child mortality.
The panel will feature John Donnelly, David Gwatkin, Mary Beth Powers and Dr. Lubana Ahmed of Save the Children.
Special guests include Senator Gordon Smith(R-OR) and REp. Corrine Brown (D-FL) who are receiving the Save the Children Real and Lasting Change Award.
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John Donnelly, Moderator
Donnelly is an international correspondent covering African affairs for the Boston Globe. He is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and specializes in global health issues. Prior to joining the Globe, he was the Middle East Correspondent for The Miami Herald, based in Jerusalem and Cairo for four years. He has also worked for The Associated Press in Vermont and New York City.
David Gwatkin
Davidson Gwatkin serves as an adviser on health and poverty to the World Bank, U.K. Department for International Development, the UNICEF, and other agencies. From 2000-03, he was the World Bank’s Principal Health and Poverty Specialist. Before joining the Bank, he had directed the International Health Policy Programs, a cooperative effort between two American foundations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organizations to strengthen health policy research capacity in Africa and Asia. Prior to that, he served with the Ford Foundation in India, West Africa, and New York. He has a Master in Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.
Mary Beth Powers
Mary Beth Powers is the Chief of the Survive to 5 campaign, an initiative of Save the Children. Ms. Powers has worked for 20 years to support maternal and child programs in more than 20 countries around the world. These programs address improved health practices and quality of care while engaging local community members in realizing their own role in ensuring healthy outcomes for mothers and children. Ms. Powers has an undergraduate degree in international politics from Georgetown University and a masters in public health from the University of Michigan and has lived and worked in Egypt, Pakistan and Thailand. She was a Rotary Foundation scholar in Jamaica at the University of the West Indies as well.
Dr. Lubana Ahmed
Dr Lubana Ahmed, Bangladesh Health Program Manager, guides and coordinates a team of groups working to improve the health of and reduce deaths among mothers and newborn babies in Bangladesh through a USAID-funded global project called ACCESS. Over the past 15 years, Lubana led many large-scale national public health projects on HIV/AIDS, as well as maternal, child and newborn health, for the Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the World Health Organization and Save the Children, among other groups. Lubana received her medical degree and did her Master’s degree in Preventive and Social Medicine from the University of Dhaka.
The symposium will be held in conjunction with Save the Children's annual Advocacy Day. If you would like to learn more about how you can become a volunteer for Save the Children or to become an advocate for policy change please visit Save the Children website.
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