Helping Babies Breathe: Leveraging Operation Smile Partnerships for Implementation, Dissemination and Sustainability of Essential Newborn Care Education Programs

This live webinar will provide an overview of the Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) program, outlining its core objectives and highlighting its impact across key Operation Smile regions, including the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with a focus on Madagascar and Ethiopia.

This panel of regional experts will share firsthand insights into how the program has been implemented in their respective countries, the impact it has had on healthcare providers and educators, and the role of midwives and local volunteers in advancing neonatal care. This panel will review key successes and outcomes of the program and offer a comprehensive look at scaling and sustaining life-saving newborn care initiatives in diverse healthcare settings.

Moderator: Dr. Nicole Shilkofski – Pediatric Critical Care at Johns Hopkins, USA

Speakers: Keltouma Ahbibe, Dr. Howard Niarison & Fouzia Mahmoudi