Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing

We lead WHO’s work on the life course so that every pregnant woman, mother, newborn, child, adolescent, and older person will survive, thrive and enjoy health and well-being.

About us

Technical areas of work

Monitoring and evaluation

MCA and COVID-19 pandemic response: Resources and information

Our activities

Our technical units

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Maternal health

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Newborn health

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Child health and development

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Adolescent and young adult health

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Ageing and health

Advisory groups

Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE) for MNCAH and Nutrition

The Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA)

Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results (MoNITOR)

Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT)

Technical Advisory Group on Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation of UN Decade of Healthy Ageing

Our latest publications

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Nurturing care framework progress report 2018-2023: reflections and looking forward

The progress report looks back on the five years since the Nurturing care framework was launched. It documents achievements and presents areas for future...

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Vaccinating older adults against COVID-19

The objective of this document is to identify successful strategies, enablers and examples of successful strategies to identify and offer vaccine doses...

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Research gaps and needs to optimize the use of assisted vaginal birth: technical brief

Lack of trained providers capable of identifying which labouring women could benefit from assisted vaginal birth (AVB), and of safely performing the...

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