Launch event: Journal of Global Health Collection from the Improving Coverage Measurement project

Description

Please join the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for a launch event of a new collection of research and reviews on measuring intervention coverage for maternal, newborn, and child health through household surveys. This event will be chaired by Ann Blanc from the Population Council. Speakers include:

• Melinda Munos (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
• Joanne Katz (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
• Harry Campbell (University of Edinburgh)
• Emily Carter (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
• Fred Arnold (ICF International, Demographic and Health Surveys)
• Shane Khan (UNICEF, Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys)

About this collection:

Measuring the results of donor investments and country efforts aimed at increasing coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) interventions is increasingly important. Large population-based surveys such as the Demographic and Health Surveys and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys are the most important sources of MNCH intervention coverage data in most low- and middle-income countries. Better understanding of the validity of MNCH coverage indicators collected in household surveys supports the interpretation of these data and decisions about what to measure in household surveys.

The Improving Coverage Measurement project, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, brought together experts from academic and non-governmental institutions and survey programs to generate evidence about the validity of MNCH coverage indicators and about approaches to improve coverage measurement. This Collection describes the research conducted by Improving Coverage Measurement and also includes contributions from other initiatives addressing these questions. The studies included in this Collection include validation studies for antibiotic treatment for pneumonia, care-seeking for childhood illness, and interventions delivered in the intrapartum and postnatal period as well as studies applying and comparing approaches for generating measures of effective coverage using population and health facility data.