Lancet Series on Midwifery Launch 23 June 2014 10am-3pm John Snow Lecture Theatre London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Webstream - http://www.livestream.com/lshtm 10am Registration and welcome, tea and coffee 10.30am Chair’s opening remarks - Mary Newburn, Head of Research and Quality, NCT 10.35am Welcome - Professor Joy Lawn, Director of MARCH Centre, LSHTM 10.40am Zoe Mullan, Senior Editor, The Lancet THE LANCET SERIES ON MIDWIFERY 10.50am Context and background to the series Professor Mary Renfrew, University of Dundee, UK 10.55am Midwifery and quality care: a new evidence-informed frameworK Professor Mary Renfrew, University of Dundee, UK The projected impact of scaling up midwifery Professor Caroline Homer, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Country experience with strengthening health systems to support midwifery services in high maternal mortality countries Professor Wim van Lerberghe, WHO (by video link) Improving maternal and newborn health through midwifery Petra ten Hoope-Bender, ICS Integrare, Spain 11.45 DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS 12.15 LUNCH – The South Courtyard Cafe Continued… ONGOING WORK 1pm Midwifery and human rights Professor Soo Downe, University of Central Lancashire, UK Developing the research agenda from The Lancet Series on Midwifery Professor Holly Kennedy, Yale University, USA RESPONSES TO THE LANCET SERIES ON MIDWIFERY 1.10pm Views from around the world - Ghana – Dr Jemima A. Dennis-Antwi ,President, Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives and MNCH/Midwives Advocate and Consultant Social Science Researcher - Brazil – Dr Maria Helena Bastos, Consultant Obstetrician, Women's Health Advisor to the Ministry of Health, Brazil, Research Fellow, National School of Public Health, Fiocruz, Brazil - UK – Professor Lesley Page, President, Royal College of Midwives - USA – Professor Holly Kennedy, immediate Past President, American College of Nurse Midwives 1.30pm Views from national and international organisations, to include - World Health Organisation – Fran McConville, Technical Officer, Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health - UNFPA – Dr Laura Laski, Chief of Sexual and Reproductive Health - International Confederation of Midwives - Frances Day-Stirk, President - Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology – Dr Daghni Rajasingaml, RCOG Council member - White Ribbon Alliance – Brigid McConville, Director - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Dr France Donnay, Senior Program Officer for Maternal Health - World Health Organisation – Dr Elizabeth Mason, former Director, Department for Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health - International Paediatric Association – Professor Joy Lawn, Director, MARCH Centre, LSHTM - University College London – Professor Peter Brocklehurst, Director, UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health - DfID – Dr Gillian Mann, Senior Adviser on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS 2.35pm Midwifery: a solution Petra ten Hoope-Bender, ICS Integrare 2.45pm A call to action - midwifery for every woman and every newborn Her Excellency Toyin Saraki, ICM Global Goodwill Ambassador and Founder and President of The Wellbeing Foundation Africa 3pm CLOSE Authors will be available for further discussion and questions until 4pm .