Pediatric Grand Rounds

“Global Child Death and the Sustainable Development Goals: Reality Behind Utopia.”
Wednesday, 29 June 2016 - 8:30 am to 9:30 am
Location
Where: 
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), 401 Smyth Road (map)
Room number: 
W1306
Registration
Registration required: 
No
Cost to attend: 
Free of charge
  • This event is offered only in English.
Event type: 
Lectures & conferences, Lecture/talk
Event language: 
English
Intended audience: 
Students, Undergraduate students, Graduate students, Professors, Staff

Presenter:
Dr. Nicole Rouvinez-Bouali  
Assistant Professor and Neonatologist
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Ottawa

Objectives: Through attending this session participants will be able to:

  • Review the global situation of pediatric, neonatal and maternal mortality
  • Review the determinants of health in low resource countries
  • Discuss the objectives and impact of the millennium development goals and the sustainable development goal
  • Discuss why neonatal care needs to be reinforced in order to achieve the under-5 mortality rate goals
  • Illustrate the health advocate role through personal projects to improve neonatal survival in Benin, Africa