Annual Maternal and Child Health Conference 2025
Join Save the Mothers at its 10th Annual Maternal and Child Health Conference on 11 April 2025, 10.00 AM EAT.
As Save the Mothers (STM) at Uganda Christian University (UCU) marks 20 years of impact in maternal and child health, we will host its 10th Annual Maternal & Child Health (MCH) Conference on April 11, 2025.
Themed “The Impact of Multidisciplinary Professionals in Strengthening Community Engagements for Safe Motherhood,” the conference will highlight the critical role of diverse professionals in advancing safe motherhood. The in person conference will be held at Nkoyoyo Hall, Uganda Christian University at 10.00 AM, Nairobi time.
Since its inception in 2005, STM in partnership with UCU, has offered a Master of Public Health Leadership (MPHL) program that empowers multidisciplinary professionals to champion safe motherhood. With over 500 graduates, the program has cultivated a network of leaders dedicated to improving safe motherhood. These have implemented impactful safe motherhood change projects across East Africa and beyond.
During this conference, on 11 April 2025 safe motherhood stakeholders including MPHL alumni will gather to share safe motherhood research, innovations and change projects.
Call for abstracts is open here...
See call for abstract here (PDF)
About Save The Mothers (STM)
The Save the Mothers (STM) Program offers a Master of Public Health Leadership (MPHL) to working professionals from a wide range of disciplines and not only the health discipline. Save the mothers East Africa hosts the MPHL at Uganda Christian University (UCU), Mukono.
The MPHL started at UCU in 2005 with the aim of training multi-disciplinary professionals and contribute to improve maternal and child health in developing countries.
At Save the Mothers we believe that a multi-disciplinary approach is needed to save some of the 342,000 mothers and four million children who die in the developing world annually due to unsafe childbirth.
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