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The Department of Social Relations celebrated “World Health Day: 7 April 2025” through a poster presentation with the undergraduate students of Population and Public Health Sciences. This year’s theme was “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures.” In relation to that, students of the course “PHS 304: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights” prepared posters on topics related to this theme with supervision of the course instructor Dr. Marzia Zaman Sultana, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Relations. This year’s theme focuses on the health of mothers and babies which is the foundation of healthy families and communities, help to ensure a hopeful future for us all; helping every woman and baby survive and thrive and listening to women and supporting families.  World Health Day started a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. This campaign advised governments and the health community to upgrade efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health and well-being. The goals of the campaign are:

• To raise awareness about gaps in maternal and newborn survival and the need to prioritize women’s longer-term well-being
• To advocate for effective investments that improve the health of women and babies
• To encourage collective action to support parents as well as health professionals who provide critical care
• To provide useful health information relating to pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period

Students of PHS 304 prepared poster on pre-conceptional care, infertility care, antenatal care, delivery care, emergency obstetric care, postnatal care which are crucial to save pregnant mothers and newborn babies from the preventable causes of death.