The Healthy Newborn Network is featuring a series of blogs highlighting papers examining the state of political priority for newborn survival globally and in four low-income countries: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Malawi and Nepal. The case of newborn survival provides insight into what it takes to generate political priority around health issues globally and in country contexts.

Read the second installment of the blog series–by Stephanie Smith, an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of New Mexico–on the ascendance of newborns in Nepal’s health agenda.