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Advocacy for Better Integration and Use of Child Health Indicators for Global Monitoring

Kathleen Strong, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Sk Masum Billah, Joanna Schellenberg, Melinda Munos, Marzia Lazzerini, Ambrose Agweyu, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Sayaka Horiuchi, Abdoulaye Maiga, Ralf Weigel, Zeina Jamaluddine, Maureen Black, Frances Aboud and Emma Sacks
Global Health: Science and Practice December 2023, 11(6):e2300181; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00181
Kathleen Strong
aDepartment of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Aging, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
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  • For correspondence: strongk{at}who.int
Jennifer Harris Requejo
bThe World Bank Group, Global Financing Facility, Washington, DC, USA.
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Sk Masum Billah
cMaternal and Child Health Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Joanna Schellenberg
dLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
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Melinda Munos
eJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Marzia Lazzerini
dLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
fInstitute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy.
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Ambrose Agweyu
gHealth Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Cynthia Boschi-Pinto
hUniversity Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Sayaka Horiuchi
iCenter for Birth Cohort Studies, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.
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Abdoulaye Maiga
eJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Ralf Weigel
jWitten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
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Zeina Jamaluddine
dLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
kAmerican University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
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Maureen Black
lDepartment of Pediatrics and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
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Frances Aboud
mMcGill University, Montreal, Canada.
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Emma Sacks
nConsultant, Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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vol. 11 no. 6 e2300181
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00181
PubMed 
38071546

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2169-575X
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  • Received: April 26, 2023
  • Accepted: November 15, 2023
  • Published online December 22, 2023.

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  1. Kathleen Stronga,*⇑,
  2. Jennifer Harris Requejob,*,
  3. Sk Masum Billahc,
  4. Joanna Schellenbergd,
  5. Melinda Munose,
  6. Marzia Lazzerinid,f,
  7. Ambrose Agweyug,
  8. Cynthia Boschi-Pintoh,
  9. Sayaka Horiuchii,
  10. Abdoulaye Maigae,
  11. Ralf Weigelj,
  12. Zeina Jamaluddined,k,
  13. Maureen Blackl,
  14. Frances Aboudm,
  15. Emma Sacksn
  1. aDepartment of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Aging, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
  2. bThe World Bank Group, Global Financing Facility, Washington, DC, USA.
  3. cMaternal and Child Health Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  4. dLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
  5. eJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  6. fInstitute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy.
  7. gHealth Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
  8. hUniversity Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  9. iCenter for Birth Cohort Studies, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.
  10. jWitten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
  11. kAmerican University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
  12. lDepartment of Pediatrics and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
  13. mMcGill University, Montreal, Canada.
  14. nConsultant, Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  1. Correspondence to Kathleen L. Strong (strongk{at}who.int).
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