At the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Vancouver IDEAS organised a special Satellite Session on the topic of 'Measurement, learning and evaluation for maternal and newborn health'. Chaired by: Joanna Schellenberg (IDEAS) and John Grove (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) Panellists: Wuleta Betemariam Project Director - Last Ten Kilometers Project John Snow Inc. Ethiopia Lynn Freedman Director - The Averting Maternal Death and Disability Programme (AMDD) Mailman School of Public Health Department of Population and Family Health Columbia University Pinki Maji Senior Program Manager - Implementation Population Services International - India Magdalene Okolo Project Director - Maternal and Neonatal Health Care Project Society for Family Health - Nigeria Presentations and debate sessions: (1) The Mechanisms of Change with Krystyna Makowiecka (2) Data Driven Action with Tanya Marchant (3) Scaling-Up Innovations with Neil Spicer (4) District Level Data for Decision Making with Bilal Avan More info: http://bit.ly/MLE4MNCH