According to the United Nations, maternal mortality has fallen by 45 percent since 1990. Globally, preventable child deaths have decreased by over 50 percent. What makes a health program successful? What policies are helping improve healthcare? During this webinar, journalists heard from World Bank experts on what makes a successful health program. They learned about the importance of data-driven analysis to understand successful approaches to healthcare. (Webinar ran live June 10, 2016)
Experts: Arndt Reichert, an economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank & Marcus Holmlund, an economist with Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) in the World Bank’s Research Group
Moderator: Christopher Conte, former International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Knight Fellow
Full webinar:
Reporting on Mother & Child Healthcare (1:25:05)
Quick clips:
- Where can journalists find impact evaluations about healthcare issues online? (2:14)
- How to find data to use alongside anecdotes in health trend stories (2:24)
- Why should journalists work together with healthcare researchers? (2:20)
About the webinars
SIEF partnered with Code for Africa and the International Center for Journalists to produce a webinar series to improve journalists’ understanding of key development issues being reported on in low-income countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. These webinars provide journalists with background information to help them more effectively report on education, health, early childhood development and water and sanitation issues, using evidence from impact evaluation research. The webinars provide reporting resources and give participants the opportunity to ask questions.