Program

10:00AM – 11:30AM

Field visit 1
Parent & Child Play Group

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 2
Anna Pavilion

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 3
Amsterdam Public Health Service
Organization of TB-control

(max 20 persons)

Field visit 4
Amsterdam Public Health Service
STI-clinic – Sense

(max 20 persons)

Field visit 5
Amsterdam Public Health Service
Presentations

(max 25 persons)

10:00AM – 11:30AM

Field visit 6
Philadelphia

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 7
Meeting Place ‘Da Costa’

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 8
MOC ‘t Kabouterhuis

(max 25 persons)

Field visit 9
Centering Pregnancy and Midwife Care

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 10
Food4Smiles

(max 12 persons)

12:00PM – 1:30PM

Lunch break
At conference location University of Amsterdam

2:00PM – 3:30PM

Field visit 11
Parent & Child Center
OKT Gaasperdam

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 12
Anna Pavilion

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 13
Amsterdam Public Health Service
Organization of TB-control

(max 20 persons)

Field visit 14
Parent & Child Center
OKT Bijlmer Oost

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 15
Amsterdam Public Health Service
School programs, Prevention, Health and Lifestyle

(max 25 persons)

2:00PM – 3:30PM

Field visit 16
Philadelphia

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 17
Meeting Place ‘Da Costa’ 

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 18
MOC ‘t Kabouterhuis

(max 25 persons)

Field visit 19
Centering Pregnancy and Midwife Care

(max 15 persons)

Field visit 20
To be announced

4:30PM – 5:30PM

Opening Ceremony:

moderator:
Prof. Dr. Arnoud Verhoeff

Dr Anneke Kesler:
Introduction about the importance of the first 1000 days and the MCHHandbook as tool.

Word of Welcome by:
Keynote spreaker from Japan

Opening act by the ‘Violenbende’

5:30PM – 7:30PM

Welcome Reception
Official opening by the Mayor of Amsterdam: Femke Halsema (to be confirmed)

8:30AM – 6:00PM

Registration

9:00AM – 9:30PM

Keynote lecture 2
Hugo de Jonge, Minister van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport

Room:  A0.01

9:30AM – 10:00PM

Keynote lecture 3
Prof. Yasuhide Nakamura, Japan

Room:  A0.01

10:00AM – 10:30PM

Keynote lecture 4
Keynote speaker from the Netherlands

Room:  A0.01

10:30AM – 11:00AM

Coffee/Tea break

11:00AM – 12:30PM

Session 1
How to reach groups with low health skills

Prof. Dr. Maria van den Muijsenbergh

Room:  A0.01

Session 2
Infant Mental Health and a Promising Start

Prof.Dr. Hedwig van Bakel

Room:  A2.07

Abstract driven session 1
Growth and Development

(growth, neurodevelopment, behavior)

Room:  A2.09

Abstract driven session 2
Lifestyle

(nutrition, smoking, drugs, alcohol, stress, hygiene, sleep)

Room:  A2.11

Country reports 1

Room:  A2.11

12:30PM – 1:30PM

Lunch

1:30PM – 3:00PM

Session 3
Maternal and Child Health Handbooks as Behavioural Tools: Exploration of Experiences & Opportunities

Sam Sternin

Room:  A0.01

Session 4
Parenting support for people with intellectual disability and support planning for parenthood

Dr. Marja Hodes

Room:  A2.07

Abstract driven session 3
Health

(infections, vaccines, mental, non-mental, chronic, rare and genetic deseases)

Room:  A2.09

Abstract driven session 4
Growth and Development

(growth, neurodevelopment, behavior)

Room:  A2.11

Country reports 2

Room:  A2.11

3:00PM – 3:30PM

Coffee/Tea break

3:30PM – 3:45PM

Keynote lecture 5
Kenya’s experience with the MCH Handbook as a link to a promising start for a solid future

Prof. Miriam Were, Kenya

Room:  A0.01

3:45PM – 4:00PM

Keynote lecture 6
Cameroon’s experience with the MCH Handbook as a link to a promising start for a solid future

Dr. Mbambole Grace Alake, Cameroon

Room:  A0.01

4:00PM – 4:15PM

Keynote lecture 7
Promising Start

Dr. Agustin Kusumayati, Indonesia (to be confirmed)

Room:  A0.01

4:15PM – 4:45PM

Keynote lecture 8
Interventions in the first 1000 days in India

Prof. Chittaranjan Yajnik

Room:  A0.01

4:45PM – 5:15PM

Panel discussion 1
Theme: first 1000 days

Her Exellency

Lyonpo Dechen Wangmo

Health Minister of Bhutan will join the keynote speakers 

moderator: t.b.c.

Room:  A0.01

5:30PM – 9:30PM

Tour on the canals and Congress buffet dinner and party (registration online)

8:30AM – 6:00PM

Registration

9:00AM – 10:00PM

Keynote lecture 9
Sustainable Development Goals and link with Promising start

Prof.Dr. Abdullah Daar, Tanzania and Prof. Dr.Tessa Roseboom, the Netherlands

Room:  A0.01

10:00AM – 10:30AM

Keynote lecture 10
Reaching vulnerable parents

Dr. Hafez Ismaili M’Hamdi, the Netherlands

Room:  A0.01

10:30AM – 11:00PM

Coffee/Tea break

11:00AM – 12:30PM

Session 5
HP4all

Social Obstetrics; a level playing field when it comes to a healthy start
Different types of research

Prof. Dr. Eric Steegers

Room:  A0.01

Session 6
E-Health

Researchers from Kenia, Japan, Palestine and the Netherlands
AIGHD (to be confirmed)

Room:  A2.07

Abstract driven session 5
Environment

(housing, poverty, violence/safety)

Room:  A2.09

Abstract driven session 6
Social relations

(mother, father, extended family, friends)

Room:  A2.11

Country reports 3

Room:  A2.11

12:30PM – 1:30PM

Lunch

1:30PM – 2:30PM

Session 8

WHO, Unicef & JICA

Room:  A0.01

Session 7
The P Process Five steps to Strategic Communication

Bernard van Leer

Room:  A2.07

Abstract driven session 7
Social relations

(mother, father, extended family, friends)

Room:  A2.09

Abstract driven session 8
Healthy Setting

(food, safe water, working conditions, pollution)

Room:  A2.11

Country reports 4

Room:  A2.11

2:30PM – 3:00PM

Coffee/Tea break

3:00PM – 3:30PM

Amsterdam Declaration

Room:  A0.01

3:30PM – 4:00PM

Keynote lecture 11
Memorial closing remarks

Dr. Toda, JICA vice president and Prof Arnoud Verhoeff

Room:  A0.01

4:00PM – 4:30PM

Closing Ceremony

Room:  A0.01