IPA Plenary Session with Zulfi Bhutta

Zulfiqar Bhutta is the incoming president of the IPA, and has remains a consistently eloquent presenter on issues of global child health.

Main Points:

• There is increasing evidence of the link between maternal, infant and child health
• Our understanding of intergenerational transmission of violence needs more development
• Statistics – need disaggregated data to demonstrate inequities within countries and communities
• Road ahead is a long one – need to look at health not just within the health SDG but across all 17 SDGs

Cool links:

• SDGs – The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
• Surviving the First Day initiative
• Core Concepts in Early Childhood Development from Harvard Developing Child – This site also has a great paper about Best Practice in Early Child Developoment