WI-HER to Present on Gender-Sensitive Social and Behavioral Change at 2015 American Public Health Association Conference

Press Release on November 2, 2015

Join WI-HER LLC on November 4, 2015 as we present our on work at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Conference in Chicago, IL. Senior Program Officer, Megan Ivankovich, MPH, will present on the work we conducted earlier this year when WI-HER LLC partnered with the CORE Group who won a USAID Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program Micro Grant. The purpose of this work was to develop a technical guide and related materials to build the capacity of development practitioners working in food security to design, implement, and evaluate gender-sensitive social and behavior change (SBC) programming in order to improve nutritional outcomes for mothers and children under two. Undernutrition during the critical 1,000 days from pregnancy to a child’s second birthday can cause life-long, irreversible damage, compromising children’s health, educational achievement, and productivity as adults. Gender integration is increasingly considered a best practice and evidence suggests it leads to improved maternal and child health outcomes and has the potential to decrease health disparities and address health equity for millions of the world’s most vulnerable people.

For more information about the presentation, please join us or see our abstract (https://apha.confex.com/apha/143am/webprogram/Paper324889.html). Our presentation, “Enhancing Nutrition and Food Security during the First 1000 Days through Gender-Sensitive Social and Behavioral Change” will be presented on Wednesday, November 4, 2014 during Session 5156.0: Research to Practice: Infant and Toddler Feeding from 12:50PM-1:10PM, located in the McCormick Place Convention Center
 Room W185bc. If you are attending the conference, please join us! If you are interested in connecting at any point throughout the conference, please contact Megan Ivankovich, mivankovich@wi-her.org.