On World Prematurity Day 2022, the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization Geneva launched new recommendations based on recent evidence that suggests how we can improve the care of preterm or low birth weight babies.

DOHaD refers to the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease and COHORTS to the Consortium of Health-Orientated Research in Transitioning Societies. This webinar looked at how early life can influence health and vulnerability to disease in later life and what can be achieved when 5 LMIC cohort studies come together.

This webinar took an in-depth look into longitudinal exposure to violence and adversity in the lives of Bt30 children, and the far-reaching consequences of this exposure on their health and wellbeing.

Data from South Africa show just how mobile children are — moving between residences and schools. This webinar covered the factors related to child mobility in the Bt30 cohort study and some of the consequences associated with it, for a better understanding of who moves and why.

Home visiting programmes increase parental well-being, parental competencies and child outcomes. A new initiative, Health Systems for Early Child Development, was discussed in this webinar, highlighting practices that have enhanced nurturing care provision.

The topic of the second webinar in this UNICEF/RISE Institute series was SDG monitoring and reporting (roles and responsibilities, requirements for global monitoring and reporting, etc.), monitoring ECD within the SDG measurement framework, and collecting data on ECD through household surveys.

The World Health Organization (WHO), The BMJ, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) and Children in All Policies 2030 (CAP2030) hosted this webinar series on health professionals and formula milk marketing. Webinar 2 in the series looked at the question: Should health professional associations refuse industry funding?

As part of a series of side events at the UN General Assembly, UNICEF co-hosted this high-level spotlight event with Sesame Workshop to galvanize global investment in parenting support and early childhood development (ECD) programmes, especially in areas affected by conflict and crisis.

The first five years of life are the fastest period of growth and development. This webinar covered the early life of participants in South Africa’s Birth-to-30 cohort study, including their home environment, their early learning and the factors that influenced their development.

This first webinar in a series of three introduced the series, co-hosted by The Rise Institute and UNICEF, and looked at data needs for early childhood development and matching such needs to available data sources, measures and systems.