On 10th October, the Save the Children Global Health and GSK Partnerships teams delivered the inaugural Global Health symposium. The all-day event celebrated 10 years of achievements facilitated or otherwise supported by GSK and enjoyed a hybrid in-person and online audience of over 200 people from more than 40 organisations including the World Health Organisation (WHO), GAVI The Vaccine Alliance, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and Amref Health Africa.
Keynote speakers included Fiona Smith-Laittan (VP of Global Health, GSK) and Joy Lawn (Professor of Public Health, LSHTM), while the three distinct sessions covered improving respiratory care for children in Nigeria, a deep-dive into the impact of Community Health Workers, and a retrospective look at GSK-facilitated programmes and advancements via Kangaroo Mother Care and the success of Chlorhexidine gel in Kenya.
Catch up on all the sessions
Introduction
Session 1
Keynote
Keynote
Session 2
Session 3
Further Symposium Resources
Pneumonia in Nigeria
- Effect of a participatory whole-systems approach on mortality in children younger than 5 years in Jigawa state, Nigeria; The Lancet, October 2024
- Pneumonia and malnutrition point prevalence at baseline; National Library of Medicine, October 2022
Oxygen systems and access
- Measuring oxygen access: lessons from health facility assessments in Lagos, Nigeria; BMJ Journals, August 2021
- Political analysis with key informant interviews and web-survey (WP4): mixed-methods; Wiley, January 2020
- Healthcare provider perspectives, questionnaires and audits (WP2): mixed-methods; Pediatric Pulmonology, January 2020
Community care-seeking
- COVID-19 knowledge and practices in Jigawa State, Nigeria: A cross-sectional survey conducted during the second wave, PLOS Global Public Health, July 2024
- “Let him die in peace”: Understanding caregiver’s refusal of medical oxygen treatment for children in Nigeria, BMJ Global Health, May 2024
- Jigawa: Systematic review of community-healthcare accountability interventions, Health Policy and Planning, April 2024
- Community perceptions matter: a mixed-methods study using local knowledge to define features of success for a community intervention to improve quality of care for children under-5 in Jigawa, Nigeria, BMJ Open, November 2023
- Pneumonia knowledge and care seeking behavior for children under-five years in Jigawa, Northwest Nigeria: a cross-sectional study. Front. Public Health, July 2023
- Whose knowledge counts? Involving communities in intervention and trial design using community conversations. Trials, June 2023
- Care seeking for under-five children and vaccine perceptions during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Lagos State, Nigeria: a qualitative exploratory studyBMJ Open, March 2023
- Maternal mental well-being and recent child illnesses–A cross-sectional survey analysis from Jigawa State, Nigeria, PLOS Global Public Health, March 2023
- Jigawa State, Nigeria: a mixed-methods study on how sociocultural nuances shape paediatric mortality reporting, Global Health Action, November 2022
- Community and caregivers’ perceptions of pneumonia and care‐seeking experiences in Nigeria: A qualitative study, Paediatric Pulmonology, January 2020
Trials and Evaluations
- Pulse oximetry and oxygen services for under-five children with community-acquired pneumonia attending primary and secondary level health facilities in Lagos, Nigeria (INSPIRING-Lagos): a pre-implementation and post implementation study, BMJ Public Health, January 2025
- Understanding pulse oximetry adoption in primary healthcare facilities in Nigeria: a realist process evaluation of the INSPIRING-Lagos stabilisation room project, BMJ Public Health, January 2025
- Effect of a participatory whole-systems approach on mortality in children younger than 5 years in Jigawa state, Nigeria (INSPIRING trial), The Lancet Global Health, October 2024
- Pulse oximetry and oxygen services for the care of children with pneumonia attending frontline health facilities in Lagos, Nigeria (INSPIRING-Lagos): study protocol for a mixed-methods evaluation, BMJ Open, May 2022
- Integrated Sustainable childhood Pneumonia and Infectious disease Reduction in Nigeria (INSPIRING) through whole system strengthening in Jigawa, Nigeria: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial, Trials, January 2022
Other projects
- How building mutual trust is key to increasing routine immunisation uptake, Gavi Blog, October 2024
- Uniting for Child Health: Save the Children and GSK Support GAVI's Ambitious 6.0 Strategy, GSK-Save the Children Blog, October 2024
- Development and pilot implementation of a crisis modifier framework in Yemen, Save the Children Resource Centre, 2021
