WHO/UNICEF
Press Conference Announcement
Launch of first joint stillbirth estimates by UN agencies
The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, comprising UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank Group will launch the report, A Neglected Burden: The Global Tragedy of Stillbirths, which presents the first joint global stillbirth estimates.
The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, comprising UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank Group will launch the report, A Neglected Burden: The Global Tragedy of Stillbirths, which presents the first joint global stillbirth estimates.
(UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL Thursday, 8 October at 00.01 GMT)
- Mark Hereward, Associate Director for Data and Analytics, UNICEF
- Dr Anshu Banerjee, Director for the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO
- Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Chair of the International Stillbirth Alliance and Honorary fellow Stillbirth Centre for Research Excellence of the University of Queensland in Australia
