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| Session I: Inaugural session |
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Address by His Excellency Dr Ali Bin Moosa,
Minister of Health, Sultanate of Oman |
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Message from Dr Hussein A. Gezairy,
WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean |
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| Speech of Dr Mahendra Sheth, UNICEF Regional Health Advisor for Middle East and North Africa Region |
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| Message from World Food Programme Regional Director for the Middle East, Central Asia & Eastern Europe |
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| Session II: Keynote Address |
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Key note address:
Impact of early growth on health over the lifecourse
Dr Ali Bin Jaffer Bin Mohamed, Director General of Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman |
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| Session III: WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study (MGRS), Regional experiences in growth charts & growth monitoring |
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Background and workshop objectives
Administrative issues
Dr Kunal Bagchi, WHO/EMRO |
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New child growth standards: Why? How? What next?
Dr Mercedes de Onis, WHO/HQ |
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Current use of child growth charts in the Region: results of a questionnaire survey
Dr Kunal Bagchi, WHO/EMRO |
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| Sessions IV & VI: Country experiences in the use of growth charts |
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| Oman
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| Bahrain |
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| Djibouti |
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| Egypt |
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| Islamic Republic of Iran |
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| Iraq |
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| Jordan |
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| Libyan Arab Jamahiriya |
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| Morocco |
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| Pakistan |
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| Palestine |
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| Qatar |
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Growth monitoring in complex emergency situation - Somalia
Ms Noreen Prendiville, FASU/FAO Somalia |
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| Sudan |
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| Syrian Arab Republic |
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| Tunisia |
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| United Arab Emirates |
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| Yemen |
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| Session V: Special presentation |
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Growth monitoring: an instrument in the context of child survival & Millennium Development Goals
Dr Mahendra Sheth, UNICEF/MENARO |
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| Session VII: Special presentation |
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Growth monitoring and food aid in complex humanitarian emergencies – World Food Programme’s perspective
Dr Pushpa Acharya, WFP |
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