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2013 Summit on Child Wellness Report Now Available
Changing the Way the World Invests in Africa's Children
2013 Summit on Child Wellness Report
For nearly a decade, Accordia has convened an annual leadership-level summit to explore forward-minded opportunities to improve health in sub-Saharan Africa and the world. This year, we focused on ways to improve child wellness in resource-limited settings through better integrated, multi-sectoral, and preventive approaches to children's care and development.
In October 2013, Accordia, the University of Malawi, and Michigan State University co-hosted the 2013 Summit on Child Wellness in Mangochi, Malawi. Accordia convened local leaders and global experts in pediatric health and surrounding disciplines and challenged them to think differently about new preventative and multi-sectoral approaches to ensuring healthy, productive lives for children born in resource-limited settings around the world.
Participants, including high-level delegates from five Malawian ministries as well as the vice chancellors of Malawi’s three largest universities, held robust discussions on how to achieve new levels of multi-sectoral and inter-disciplinary collaboration in academia, policy and practice; strengthen human resources throughout the system; and build stronger research capabilities to evaluate the impact of novel integrated interventions for improved child wellness.
Output and insights from the Summit’s deliberations are detailed in the 2013 Summit on Child Wellness Report: Changing the Way the World Invests in Africa’s Children, released today. Additionally the report reflects our shared vision for Accordia’s proposed Institute for Child Wellness in Africa (ICWA).
