Report: 3rd Meeting of the WHO Strategic and TAG of Experts for MNCAH and Nutrition
27-29 April 2021
Overview
The World Health Organization (WHO) convened the third meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE) on a virtual platform on 27–29 April 2021. The meeting included 28 STAGE members who were joined by staff at WHO headquarters and regional offices and 62 participants from partner organizations as observers.
Professor Caroline Homer, Chair of STAGE, described the way in which the meeting had been planned, which consisted of the formation of four workstreams, three of which were continuations from the working groups in November 2020. The additional workstream, Evidence and guidelines for impact, was created to review means for bridging the gaps between evidence, guidelines and impact.
The workstreams and topics were thus:
- Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (MNCAHN) services,
- Evidence and guidelines for impact: kangaroo mother care,
- Knowledge translation: private sector engagement (PSE) and
- MNCAHN throughout the life-course: redesign of maternal and child health.