DR JOY LAWN

Dr Joy Lawn, B MedSci, MB BS, MRCP (Paeds), MPH PhD
Director Global Evidence and Policy,
Saving Newborn Lives-Save the Children-US
Cape Town, South Africa
Joy is an African-born paediatrician and perinatal epidemiologist. She has 20 years experience in newborn health especially in Africa, including 4 years as a lecturer and neonatalogist in Ghana. She shifted to public health and global estimation whilst at the WHO Collaborating Center, CDC Atlanta, USA (1998-2001), and then at the Institute of Child Health, London, UK (2001-2004), completing a Masters of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta and PhD at University College London.

She is now Director Global Evidence and Policy with the Gates-funded Saving Newborn Lives program of Save the Children-US. She works with governments and partners to integrate, scale up and evaluate newborn care, particularly in Africa, including a network of 6 large-scale effectiveness trials.

She co-leads the United Nation’s Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group’s Neonatal Group which developed the first cause-of-death estimates for 4 million neonatal deaths each year, published in The Lancet Neonatal series and WHO WHR 2005, and now produced annually. She has authored multiple peer reviewed papers, coordinated several journal series and reviews for many journals. She led a 60 author team from 14 organizations for the book “Opportunities for Africa’s Newborns” and then 7 country teams for African Science Development Initiative’s report “Science in Action – Saving the lives of Africa’s mothers, newborns and children”. She co-chairs the Countdown to 2015 technical subcommittee overseeing national data profiles and reports. Joy has recently presented a BBC documentary on progress and challenges for newborn survival in Malawi and Nepal.

PROFESSOR PHILLIDA NOMUSA NZIMANDE

Professor Nzimande is a nurse, public administrator, researcher & well-seasoned academic & businesswoman.
She graduated at the University of Natal, Durban in 1969 in Nursing Education, and holds a BA degree D. Lit et Phil
She is the co-owner and manager of Alberts Publishers cc
She is a board member of the International Council of Nurses and the Commonwealth Nurses Federation.
She is currently chairperson of the Natal Museum.
She is a strong development activist and is known nationally and internationally as a transformational and visionary leader.

Dr. MARGO PRITCHARD

Dr Margo Anne Pritchard is a neonatal nurse and midwife with a BA. (Political Science) and awarded a PhD from the School of Medicine, The University of Queensland.
Her research focus is in high-risk child-family surveillance and is currently validating and developing screening and NICU transition tools and interventions to optimise high-risk child neurodevelopment and behavioural outcomes.
Margo established and currently manages the first perinatal clinical trials unit within the Division of Women’s and Newborn Services Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital.