About us
AlignMNH is a global initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with the US Agency for International Development. The initiative was founded in 2020 to accelerate progress in improving maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes and prevent stillbirths around the globe. AlignMNH is supported by a Secretariat that is managed by Jhpiego, an international NGO focused on transformative health care solutions that save lives.
AlignMNH works in partnership with global and country-based organizations, national-level technical working groups, and other MNH-focused initiatives to more rapidly share science, evidence, and programmatic experience across the maternal and newborn health communities.
AlignMNH is guided by an International Steering Committee of 20 global thought leaders. The members have direct, practical, and in-depth country experience; represent countries and communities from Ethiopia to Nepal to South Africa; and provide overall strategic management and oversight to the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference (IMNHC) 2023, as well as to the overall initiative.
Co-Chairs
Co-Chairs
Dr. Anshu Banerjee
Director, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Aging
World Health Organization
Switzerland
Dr. Queen Dube
Chief of Health Services
Ministry of Health Malawi
Malawi
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Dr. Shams El Arifeen
Senior Director and Senior Scientist, Maternal and Child Health Division
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Bangladesh
Dr. Martina Lukong Baye
In Memoriam
Cameroon
Dr. Hannah Blencowe
Assistant Professor
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
United Kingdom
Dr. Mickey Chopra
Global Solutions Lead, Service Delivery
World Bank
United States
Dr. Dalya Eltayeb
Maternal and Child Health Director
Ministry of Health
Sudan
Prof. Lynn Freedman
Professor of Population and Family Health
Columbia University
United States
Prof. Hadiza Galadanci
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Founding Director of African Centre of Excellence in Population Health and Policy
Bayero University
Nigeria
Dr. Aparajita Gogoi
Executive Director, Center for Catalyzing Change; National Coordinator
White Ribbon Alliance
India
Ms. Mary Kinney
Researcher, School of Public Health
University of the Western Cape
South Africa
Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye
Director General
Ghana Health Service
Ghana
Dr. Manala Makua
Chief Director of Women’s, Maternal and Reproductive Health
National Department of Health
South Africa
Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng
UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, SRHR Expert and Distinguished Lecturer
O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
South Africa
Ms. Angela Nguku
Executive Director
White Ribbon Alliance
Kenya
Dr. David Ntirushwa
Medical Doctor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali (CHUK)
Rwanda
Dr. Swaraj Rajbhandari
Senior Consultant Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Senior MNCH Advisor
Nidan Hospital
Nepal
Dr. Samba Sow
Director General for INSP, Director General of Center for Vaccine Development Mali
Mali Ministry of Health and Social Development
Mali
Dr. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin
Minister of Health
Ministry of Health
Ethiopia
Ms. Pashtoon Azfar Zyaee
Advisory Board Member
Afghan Midwives Association
Afghanistan
AlignMNH is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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