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E2HD and the Program in Global Health Studies are pleased to invite you to a special presentation by a Senior Program Officer at the Gates Foundation. 

Matthew Steele (PhD MPH) leads multidisciplinary teams to drive innovations for maternal, neonatal and child health, nutrition, malaria, immunizations, and outbreak diseases to scale in difficult operating environments globally.

Dr. Steele will be presenting:

Lessons from the field:  Evaluating the impact of antibiotics as tools to prevent child mortality in the Sahel

Sahelian countries face economic and public health crises due to government instability, climate change, and insecurity. These crises contribute to high child mortality while many other regions are seeing improvements in maternal and child health. Single dose mass drug administration with Azithromycin is effective at reducing child mortality, but poses challenging ethical and tactical questions around stewardship of antibiotics and approaches to addressing a persistent mortality crisis in the region.