Maternal, newborn, child & adolescent health
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Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results (MoNITOR)
The health of women and children are critical for global development. However, information and data on measuring countries’ progress are limited given the variety of methodological challenges of measuring care around the time of birth, when most maternal and neonatal deaths and morbidities occur.
In 2015, the World Health Organization launched Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results (MoNITOR), a technical advisory group to WHO. The vision of MoNITOR is to facilitate measurement, align initiatives, and provide technical guidance to WHO. Ultimately, MoNITOR will support WHO to ensure harmonized guidance, messages, and tools so that countries can collect useful data to track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. MoNITOR is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
MoNITOR Objectives
There are three over-arching objectives for MoNITOR:
Provide independent advice to WHO on monitoring-related guidance and norms and data collection platforms for maternal and newborn health.
Convene maternal and newborn measurement initiatives to avoid duplication and coordinate messages to national and international communities.
Offer advice on metrics-related research priorities and capacity-building.
MoNITOR Advisory Group Members
Co-chairs
Shams EL ARIFEEN
Senior Director and Senior Scientist
Maternal and Child Health Division
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Claudia HANSON
Researcher
Health system and Policy Group
Department of Public Health Sciences
Karolinska Institutet
Sweden
Alison MORGAN
Head, Maternal, Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit
Nossal Institute for Global Health
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
University of Melbourne
Australia
Experts
Agbessi AMOUZOU
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University
USA
Khalifa ELMUSHARAF
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Graduate Entry Medical School
University of Limerick
Ireland
Rajesh KUMAR
Professor of Community Medicine and Head
School of Public Health
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
India
Roger MYRICK
Deputy Director of Programs
Global Strategic Information
Global Health Sciences
University of California
USA
Sriyanjit PERERA
Health Information System Advisor
United Republic of Tanzania
Katherine SEMRAU
Assistant Professor
Ariadne Labs
Landmark Center
USA
Florina SERBANESCU
Team Lead
Global Reproductive Health Evidence for Action Team
Division of Reproductive Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
USA
Lara VAZ
Monitoring and Evaluation
Save the Children
USA
Huda ALKITKAT
Biostatistician/Demographer
USA
Mike ENGLISH
KEMRI/Wellcome Trust
Kenya
Peter WAISWA
Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management
Makerere University School of Public Health
Uganda
MoNITOR has met several times since its inception. The executive summaries of the meeting reports are listed below.The next meeting will be 19-21 November 2019.
MoNITOR documents
- MoNITOR meeting executive summary May 2019
- Measures matter: Revisiting the indicators for maternal andnewborn health programmes
- Measures matter: A scoping review of maternal and newborn indicators
- MoNITOR meeting executive summary Nov 2018
- MoNITOR meeting executive summary May 2018
- MoNITOR meeting executive summary June 2017
- MoNITOR meeting executive summary Nov 2016