The Polio Journey: 30 Years of Experience - Wednesday, July 11, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Hi and best wishes. I wanted to quickly alert you to the event below, information on which has been shared by MCSP. If you are in Washington DC and can attend on Wednesday, July 11th, it would be excellent to see you there. There will also be a virtual link to this event - we will share the details soon. Most happy to answer any questions - just reply by email. Best wishes and thanks - Warren

Save the Date:
The Polio Journey: 30 Years of Experience
Wednesday, July 11, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM (Washington DC time)

RSVP and register at this link

Webinar link - https://mcsprogram.adobeconnect.com/polio30/

In person at MCSP office - 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 300, Washington DC

In 1988, there were 365,000 cases of wild polio virus across the developing world. In 2017, there were only 22. As polio incidence has fallen and eradication has inched nearer, there has been an increasing emphasis on critical reflection to understand what has been learned from the various polio strategies and programs, with the hope that the experience could be helpful to support accelerated progress on other health and development issues.

Please join USAID's flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program for a webinar on "The Polio Journey: 30 Years of Experience" on Wednesday, July 11 from 10:30 AM-12:00 PM to share the lessons learned from USAID-supported polio programming, and for an interactive discussion to show how the best practices and effective strategies might be applied to development issues. The sharing of this experience, successes and challenges, is in the spirit of providing strategic insights that might inform those engaged in the field of reproductive, newborn, and child health.

Please attend in person at the MCSP office at 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 300, Washington DC and join us afterward for lunch and an opportunity for further discussion.

 
We're accepting questions you may want our speakers to address in advance of this event, so please submit your questions to Kate Bagshaw at Kate.Bagshaw@mcsprogram.org 

Onsite space is limited to 70 persons, so please only RSVP if you intend to attend in person. Online access will also be available.

Please click here to RSVP.

Webinar link - https://mcsprogram.adobeconnect.com/polio30/

 
Opening Remarks:

Koki Agarwal
MCSP Program Director

Keynote Speaker:

Ellyn Ogden
Worldwide Polio Eradication Coordinator, USAID

Other featured speakers include:

Warren Feek
Executive Director, The Communication Initiative

Abdelmalik Hashim
Senior Technical Officer, USAID's flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program

Lee Losey
Senior Technical Advisor, CORE Group Polio Project

Folake Olayinka
Immunization Team Lead, USAID's flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program