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April 13, 2015

Cesar Victora will give a seminar at UNICEF in New York

Professor Cesar G. Victora of International Center for Equity in Health (ICEH) will present a seminar entitled "Child health: is equity improving?" at the UNICEF headquarters in New York (USA) on April 15th at 2 PM. The seminar will provide an update on the work carried out at the ICEH regarding trends in inequalities in intervention coverage in 98 countries.

March 30, 2015

Professor John Lynch visits the ICEH

John Lynch, the distinguished epidemiologist from University of Adelaide, visited the ICEH today. During the visit, we had the opportunity to discuss ongoing research and possible collaboration between the ICEH and Professor Lynch's group in Australia. Internationally recognized by his contribution to public health and epidemiology, Professor Lynch’s current main interest lies on interventions to reduce inequalities in child development and cognition. In 2014, he was listed by Thoms

March 30, 2015

Aluisio Barros participated on a Family Planning workshop in NYC

The workshop took part on 2015-02-25 at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in New York City. The goal was to discuss about several papers where the main subject was Family Planning. The meeting also worked on specific cases of Nigeria, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. In the picture, from left to right: Aluisio, Agbessi, Akanni, Sennen, Solomon, Howard, Maiga.

March 25, 2015

Visiting professor at the Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Professor Cesar G. Victora will spend two months as a visiting professor at the Department of Global Health and Population - Harvard School of Public Health

January 21, 2015

Advances in methods and techniques: The Equiplot

In our quest to improve the presentation of equity data we explored several different alternatives and the one of choice to compare absolute inequality between interventions, countries, or even time trends is the “equiplot”. In 2013, Aluísio Barros developed an ado file to create a 2 or 5-dot plot graph for equity analysis. Please take a look at our Products area for more information.

July 03, 2014

Number of maternal deaths must be reduced by half in Brazil

Brazilian newspaper “Zero Hora” has published the results of the maternal and child health report presented on June 30 in a forum in Johannesburg, South Africa. The article presents interviews with researchers, Maria Clara Restrepo and Giovanny Araújo, from the International Center for Equity in Health of the Federal University of Pelotas. Read more:

July 03, 2014

Cesarean sections brakes decline in maternal mortality rate

Brazilian newspaper “Estadão” published an article based on an interview with a researcher from the International Center for Equity in Health of the Federal University of Pelotas, Cesar Victora, during the forum for WHO’s partner institutions to reduce maternal and infant mortality in the world - in Johannesburg, South Africa. Read more…

July 03, 2014

Every Newborn: an action plan to end preventable deaths

Remarkable progress has been made in recent decades to reduce the number of child deaths worldwide, but neonatal mortality rates have declined at a slower pace. Yet most newborn deaths are preventable and opportunities for addressing newborn health are unprecedented especially when effectively integrated with care for women and children. Today, much more is known about effective interventions and service delivery channels, and of approaches to accelerate coverage and quality of care. Read more..

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