Helen Clark appointed Board Chair of PMNCH

Former New Zealand Prime Minister and first female United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Administrator Rt. Hon. Helen Clark has been appointed as Board Chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn& Child Health (PMNCH) with effect as of 11 July 2019.   The appointment was officially confirmed at the PMNCH’s 23 rd Board meeting in The Hague today. A well-respected global leader and public figure, Clark champions women ’s leadership and is a strong voice on sustainable development, climate action, gender equality, peace and justice, and action on non-communicable diseases and HIV. She serves on several advisory boards and commissions, including in the capacity of Chair of the Advisory Board of UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report. In June 2019, she assumed the Chairpersonship of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Clark proactively supports the health and rights of girls and women in the board of the advocacy organization Women Deliver and co-chairs The Lancet-WHO-UNICEF Commission on Child Health and Wellbeing.
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: adolescent health [subject], adolescent, youth, young people, teen health, teenager, adolescence, adolescents, child health [subject], children's health, children, young child, child, maternal health [subject], maternal mortality, maternal, antenatal care Source Type: news