Prof Joy Lawn

Last call!!
Wonderfully inspiring applications over the last 8 years!!
Pls share and nominate!

The ISSAD Board & Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) invites you to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations across a range of scientific and clinical topics related to GBS.

👉 issad.org/abstract-sub...

#issad2026 #FromEvidencetoAction #GBS #research #maternalhealth

We are delighted to unveil ISSAD 2026 theme, “From Evidence to Action Accelerating GBS Prevention in a Changing World.”

👉 Register today: www.issad.org/registration

#theme #issad2026 #FromEvidencetoAction #GBS #research #maternalhealth #Global #health

📢 To mark #WorldSepsisDay, catch our webinar on AMR, babies and bugs in Africa!

• AMR’s impact on newborn care
• HCAI pathway Launch
• Outbreak responses across Africa
• Vaccine role in reducing antibiotics

🎥 Watch here: newborntoolkit.org/events/babie...

@joylawn.bsky.social @gardp.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social @lshtm-march.bsky.social

Exciting webinar on 9th Sept
#worldsepsisday #AMR #newborn
@gardp.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social

"The future of newborns is in Africa and we are the people who have to ensure they survive and thrive" Dr Alex Stevenson opening first conference of African Neonatal Association in Kigali

Small and sick newborn care: Changes in service readiness scoring between baseline and 2023 for 65 neonatal units implementing with NEST360 in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania Health Facility Assessments (HFAs) are important for measuring and tracking service readiness for small and sick newborn care (SSNC). NEST360 Alliance aims to reduce neonatal mortality in four countri...

PUBLICATION ALERT: Changes in service readiness across 65 facilities in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Malawi dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @joylawn.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-march.bsky.social

A team of health-care workers receives training in neonatal care in Kenya. Credit: NEST360-Kenya team

Comment 2: #Neonatology’s future: securing most impact where most
#newborn infants die by Msandeni Chiume @joylawn.bsky.social‬ & colleagues

buff.ly/IcuIW03

"Medical technology must advance hand in hand with system-wide attention to sustainability..."

📢 TUES!! Pls share widely!

🔎 Launch #BornTooSoon Supplement: progress, priorities + pivots for preterm birth. Hosted by PMNCH

Opening Dr Tedros
Many exciting speakers!

Live Fr + Spanish translation!

📆24 June 2025
🕐 3pm EAT| 1pm WAT/BST| 8am EST |2pm CET

👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/born-...

Empowering young voices in clinical research: co-creation of an educational video to support informed assent Thabo's eyes flicker as he steps into the familiar room of a clinic he has been visiting for as long as he can remember. He sees doctors and nurses like usual, but he doesn't quite understand why he's...

In our Reflections section, an Essay by Anne Kamphuis, Lungile Jafta, and Tom Jacobs on behalf of the Penta Youth Trials Board

💫 Empowering young voices in clinical research: co-creation of an educational video to support informed assent

Read👉 buff.ly/96JEBnK
Watch 👉 buff.ly/8e6bTyd

It's #ToolkitTuesday! 🛠️

This week, we take a look at the paper that inspired our Research Funding Map: a systemic analysis of levels and trends in research funding for newborn health and stillbirths.

Find out more 👉 newborntoolkit.org/reading/rese...

Great video of #IPA2025
7000 delegates fr 1 million #Pediatricians around 🌎
Congrats Naveen Thacker + team.

Priviledge to speak on 2 plenaries + 1 parallel session.

Many colleagues + friends and get a taster of Mexico

www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bjt...

@lancetchildadol.bsky.social

False dichotomy of defence spending vs development investment

Thoughtful, eloquent piece by @martinmckee.bsky.social @kentbuse.bsky.social in @bmj.com

Hope is read by politicians as well as us who see the impact every day of rapid cuts in aid

Please share widely @peterstefanovic.bsky.social

War on science
War on peace

Calendar highlight for 2026!
2nd International Maternal Newborn Health Conference.
Looking fw to this in Nairobi Movement not a moment..
#IMNHC2026 @newborntoolkit.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @ciffchild.bsky.social @who.int

📢 Happy World KMC Day!
To mark #WorldKMCDay, we hosted a dynamic webinar on high-quality KMC!

🔹 Latest updates from WHO
🔹 Launch of the KMC Quality Action Pathway - newborntoolkit.org/action-pathw...
🔹 Practical country examples&more!

🎥 Watch & get slides: buff.ly/3eU4y7c

On #WorldKMCday, meet Dr Sheila Oyella — a Ugandan paediatrician who became a preemie mum overnight when her baby arrived 11 weeks early, weighing just 1390g.

Her story shows the power of Kangaroo Mother Care 💛

Learn more: newborntoolkit.org/in_practice/...

Trump2.0 1st 100 days.
Last days for 1000s around world with #HIV due to PEPFAR demise.
Even more for newborns, children with programmes slashed even more.
Plus deaths in USA with sliding vaccine protection.
More unconsciable then crashing the economy even if gets less news

📢 Join us for our next Newborn Toolkit webinar!

🔎 “Kangaroo Mother Care with quality: Duration, Nutrition and Data That Matter” With Live French translation!
📆13th May , 2025
🕐 3pm EAT| 1pm WAT/BST| 8am EST

👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/maxim...

The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown to 2030 for women's, children's, and adolescents' health: tracking progress on health and nutrition In line with previous progress reports by Countdown to 2030 for Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health, this report analyses global and regional trends and inequalities in health determinants, s...

Full report open access in @TheLancet
Honoured to be one of many co authors

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Summary of 5 S actions from the report, with major call for focus across Africa

Pls join event and share. Countdown to 2030 Lancet Report analysing change for RMNCAH over last decade. Many important findings and actions of relevance for all of us. Important data for use esp across Africa.

Heartbreaking measles in USA. 1st deaths for >10 years.
As a paediatrician in West Africa mid-1990s measles epidemic we saw wards of very sick children, deaths every day. Even 5yrs later deaths rare with measles vaccine high coverage.

World going backwards
= preventable deaths in USA + worldwide

Happy Birth Day! Welcome @thelancet.bsky.social new journal on Obstetrics, Gynae & health!
Just in time for @who.int year of focus on maternal, newborn health and preparing stillbirths
#HopefulFutures #HealthyBeginnings
#WHD2025

#Infertility is fertile ground for more research in Africa. Distressingly common and major stigma especially for women. Risk of unsafe and expensive practices by traditional and also apparently orthodox providers. Tx for studying this and look fw to learning more
#SRH

Investing in maternal and newborn health is an investment in the future, not a cost.

It supports:
- Lifelong health
- Healthy societies
- #HopefulFutures

Improving the health of women and babies means collaborating and investing in #HealthForAll.

Birth of Partnership Accelerating Newborn Survival Across Africa (PANSAA)

Thanks @alignmnh.bsky.social for supporting this birth!

@newborntoolkit.bsky.social
#worldhealthday #healthforall

Watch: Moment baby is born on Bangkok street after quake evacuation A woman was seen giving birth to a baby shortly after evacuating from a hospital.

Deaths.. and life
Birth on the street
#myanmarquake

Moment baby is born on street after quake evacuation - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Namibia swears in first female president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah tells BBC she understands pressure she faces as Africa's second directly elected female leader

Currently 2 female presidents on African continent #Nambia #Tanzania.
Both standing up for vulnerable citizens.

One day #USA? Hoping for this century...
#IWD #democracy @unwomen.bsky.social

BBC News - Namibia swears in first female president
www.bbc.com/news/article...