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Moderated sessions in which three to four presenters have approximately 15 minutes each to present, followed by a question-and-answer period. There are multiple sessions taking place concurrently in each session period.
These sessions will take place on: May 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30.
Sessions by Day:
Tuesday pm Wednesday am | pm Thursday am | pm Friday am | pm Saturday am
Sessions by Series:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H
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| Tuesday, May 26, 2009: 1:30-3:15 pm |
| A1: | Remote Access to Knowledge Resources
Presenters Discuss: the capacity of open online collaboration and knowledge sharing to transform education, and consequently many aspects of global health and how open education in global health and other sectors supports the emergence of innovation, efficiency, and improved performance (global); a conceptual framework to the scaling up of health interventions, scalability of health innovations, and tools to support the development of project-specific scaling-up strategies (global); Medline/Pubmed and other resources from the National Library of Medicine that may be useful for the practice of evidence-based medicine and in formulating health care policies (global); and programs in which technology supports and complements the knowledge transfer program of the Johns Hopkins’ affiliates, global partners and even for itself and challenges and lessons learned important for anyone considering technology solutions for their implementation (global).
Moderator:
Leela McCullough, EdD, Satellife HealthNet
Presenters:
Peter Fajans, MD, MPH | presentation
Paul Fontelo | presentation
Mary Lee, MD
Alexander Nason | presentation
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| A2: | New Technologies for Supervision
Presenters Discuss: the role of personal digital assistants (PDA) in integrated supervision, key steps to ensure PDA use in health program supervision at sub-national level, and the importance of integrated supervision for improved service quality and increased community involvement (Madagascar); how to use video to assess and strengthen the counseling skills of health workers (Bolivia); and a successful private sector tuberculosis (TB) quality improvement technique using hand-held technology (Ethiopia).
Moderator:
Barbara Stilwell, IntraHealth International
Presenters:
Jaures Rabemanantena, MD
Marco Polo Torres Vasco, MA | presentation | video (47 MB)
Yonas Yilma
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| A3: | Women Centered and Women Empowered Approaches to Fight HIV
Presenters Discuss: how community partnership, peer advocacy and information technology may be integrated into women centered HIV research and comprehensive family HIV care (Rwanda); how new disease specific technologies can be integrated into routine maternal care, why effectively delivering new technologies improve overall quality of care and access to care, and the significance of providing woman centered antenatal care from a health and human rights perspective (Mozambique); and the PATH Woman’s Condom product status.
Moderator:
Milka Dinev, MBA, Pathfinder International
Presenters:
Patricia Coffey, PhD | presentation
Mardge Cohen, MD | presentation
Wendy Johnson, MD
Betsy Tolley, MA | presentation
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| A4: | Improving Feeding for Children: New Products and Effective Behaviors
Presenters Discuss: the impact of an integrated complementary feeding, responsive feeding, and infant stimulation intervention on child dietary intake, growth, and development (India); the relative benefits of new products for improving the nutrient-density of complementary foods (Ghana); and three features of an innovative nutritional rehabilitation approach (Rwanda).
Moderator:
Rae Galloway, MS, PATH
Presenters:
Margaret Bentley, PhD
Emmanuel D'Harcourt, MD | presentation
Kathryn Dewey, PhD | presentation
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| Wednesday, May 27, 2009: 10:45 am-12:30 pm |
| B1: | Rapid Detection of Emerging Infectious Diseases: New Approaches, Today's Tools
Presenters Discuss: the challenges of achieving a comprehensive global public health surveillance system, the value of informal data sources such as discussion forums, mailing lists, and news outlets to support early event detection, and measures to facilitate early outbreak detection and situational awareness by leveraging ongoing openly available surveillance systems; key challenges in developing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems for emerging infectious diseases of animal origin, an M&E framework and indicators for national avian influenza programs and how to adapt this M&E framework for prevention and control programs for other emerging infectious diseases of a zoonotic nature (Southeast Asia); unique opportunities offered by short message service (SMS) technology in addressing global health challenges, advantages, issues, and limitations with SMS use in health programs, approaches to adopt and integrate SMS technology into existing public health programs, such as outbreak disease response, patient compliance, community awareness, surveillance and laboratory diagnosis (Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa); and the challenges of achieving a comprehensive global public health surveillance system, the value of novel technologies for genetic detection of new pathogens and digital detection of outbreaks, and the value and usefulness of the proposed infectious disease genomic project (Southeast Asia, Africa).
Moderator:
Erin Eckert, ICF Macro
Presenters:
John Brownstein, PhD | presentation
Denise Johnson | presentation
Gavin Macgregor-Skinner, MS | presentation
Frank Rijsberman | presentation
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| B2: | Beyond the Classroom: E-Learning for Better Health
Presenters Discuss: the utilization of combined virtual and face-to-face learning modalities to prepare health leaders to confront new challenges in a globalized world and engage communities of practice on key international health issues (Latin America, Caribbean); strategies for using live webcasting technology for continuing education of healthcare providers, principles of instructional design to consider when using live webcasting technology, lessons learned about using live webcasting technology for continuing education (Caribbean, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania); the advantages of mobile technology tools for providing continuing education to health care workers in rural areas (Uganda); and the impact of effective virtual facilitation on achieving virtual program results (global).
Moderator:
James BonTempo, Jhpiego
Presenters:
Annella Auer, MPH | presentation
Stacey Lissit, MPH | presentation | video (1.8 MB)
Leela McCullough, EdD | presentation
Karen Sherk Chio, MPH | presentation
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| B3: | NIGH Panel: Using Appropriate Technology to Improve Health: High and Low Tech
Presenters Discuss: the significance of socio-cultural determinants and community perceptions in shaping the acceptance, utilization and subsequent impact of ThermoSpot on neonatal hypothermia, domiciliary behaviors and neonatal mortality in a low resource setting (Shivgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India); the key features of a new microfluidics-based diagnostic test, and the relevancy of this technology for point-of-care diagnostics in resource-limited settings; the effectiveness of a pictorial medication labeling system in improving recall of medical information among women in a low-literate setting in India, and the challenges that must be overcome before such a system can be implemented in other community health facilities (Kutch District, Gujarat State, India); the potential public health and economic impact of using rapid testing instead of conventional laboratory based testing to diagnose HIV in infants (Uganda); and potential risks and benefits to data collection by PDA in community studies (Lima, Peru).
Moderator:
Suzi Peel, SPHERE
Presenters:
Arpit Agarwal | presentation
Curtis Chin | presentation
Anjali Dotson, MPH | presentation
Melissa Latigo, MPH | presentation
Gwenyth Lee | presentation
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| B4: | Cervical Cancer Screening in the Age of HPV Vaccine
Presenters Discuss: existing cervical cancer screening methods (Pap and visual methods), including advantages and disadvantages for low resource settings; cervical cancer screening considerations in low resource settings with the advent of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine; elements of future cervical cancer prevention programs based on promising new technologies; and new molecular tests developed for low-resource settings for detecting HPV.
Moderator:
Christopher Elias, PATH
Presenters:
Neerja Bhatla | presentation
Jose Jeronimo, MD | presentation
Mark Schiffman
Scott Wittet | presentation
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| B5: | Innovations in Postabortion Care
Presenters Discuss: why adolescents have special needs within postabortion care (PAC) programs, the process to make PAC services youth friendly, and lessons learned and promising practices to other developing country contexts (Sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mozambique); findings on the efficacy of misoprostol compared to manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) for incomplete abortion, and the advantages and potential of misoprostol for addressing the problem of unsafe abortion, the key issues related to expansion of medical treatments in postabortion care programs (Egypt, global); how youth-friendly postabortion care (YFPAC) was integrated within existing youth-friendly services (YFS) and how PAC can be an entry point for other reproductive health (RH) and HIV services (Ethiopia, Africa); and how to establish a sustainable resupplying program of a donated product intended to address unsafe abortions in restrictive settings (Philippines, Asia).
Moderator:
Elizabeth Westley, Family Care International
Presenters:
Gwyn Hainsworth, M.Ed
Nevine Hassanein, MD | presentation
Worknesh Kereta
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| B6: | Not the Usual Suspects: Community Based Low Tech Interventions that Improve Child Health Outcomes
Presenters Discuss: the value of pictorial representation of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) algorithms and child care best practices for the quality of care of illiterate community health workers (CHWs) (Afghanistan); steps to engage religious leaders in health promotion, capitalizing on traditional vehicles to provide funds to increase health-seeking behaviors, and building an effective rotating drug program (Ethiopia); the role of computer based tools for microplanning in routine immunization and the planning process using the tool (Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh, India); and how introducing new medicines in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) catalyzed policy changes and drove interventions to strengthen pharmaceutical management systems (Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania).
Moderator:
Robert Black, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Presenters:
Iain Aitken
Khrist Roy, MD | presentation
Karan Sagar, MD | presentation | presentation | presentation | presentation
Katherine Senauer | presentation
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| B7: | Measuring Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy
Presenters Discuss: how to use routine pharmacy and clinic data to measure basic adherence rates to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a wide variety of resource-poor settings and show that the measures identify facilities that are doing well and less well (East Africa); the predictive validity of indicators of ART adherence developed by the International Network for the Rational Use of Drugs Initiative on Adherence to Antiretrovirals (INRUD-IAA) calculated from routine data; (East Africa); how mobile phone technology can be used as a tool in promoting and monitoring adherence to antiretrovirals in previously non adherent patients (Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria); and system- and patient-related factors that may influence adherence to ART and the limited scope of choice for patients (East Africa).
Moderator:
Keith Johnson, Management Sciences for Health
Presenters:
John Chalker | presentation
Dennis Ross-Degnan | presentation
Babajide Sangosanya | presentation
Rolf Wahlstrom | presentation
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| Wednesday, May 27, 2009: 2:30-4:15 pm |
| C1: | Accelerating R&D: New Diagnostics, Drugs and Vaccines for TB
Presenters Discuss: how a new web-based tool, e-TB Manager, has been adapted in different country settings to provide key support for tuberculosis (TB) case and medicine management as well as played an important role in multidrug- resistant and extremely drug-resistant (MDR/XDR) TB surveillance strategies (Brazil, Romania, Moldova, the Philippines, Ukraine, Dominican Republic); how product development partnerships are changing the way that TB drugs are developed and the actions necessary to pave the way for field introduction of new TB regimens (global); which tests are likely to revolutionize the field of TB diagnostics, as well as how product development partnerships like Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) operate (South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Peru, Latvia, India); and the global need and requirements for a new TB vaccine, the role of product development partnerships in TB vaccine development, and the current status of TB vaccine development (global).
Moderator:
Joanne Carter, RESULTS Educational Fund | presentation
Presenters:
Joel Keravec | presentation
Giorgio Roscigno | presentation
Jerald Sadoff, MD | presentation
Melvin Spigelman, MD | presentation
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| C2: | Putting Global Health on the Map
Presenters Discuss: geographic information system (GIS) applications in planning, managing, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating performance of community outreach, education and intervention activities and functional approaches for integrating program baseline survey data with performance indicators using an existing GIS to apply a rational methodology for monitoring and evaluation of programs (Tanzania); how to join population and environmental risk data in a spatial database, and how to proceed, via a case-study approach, from health and environmental issues at global levels to the local policy and research implications (global); innovative research technique for objectively monitoring and evaluation of product/service performance (South Asia, Nepal); and the CORE Group Polio Project’s (CGPP’s) use of google map and hand-drawn community mapping to enhance vaccination coverage and conduct case searches for possible cases of polio and the potential impact and challenges of using this low-cost universally available mapping technology (southern/central Africa, Angola).
Moderator:
John Spencer, MA, MEASURE Evaluation
Presenters:
Marsha Macatta-Yambi | presentation
Mark Montgomery, PhD | presentation
Prakash Pant | presentation
Dora Ward, MPH | presentation
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| C3: | Vouchers for Health
Presenters Discuss: the potential of competitive vouchers in increasing access to priority services for currently underserved populations (Nicaragua); how subsidized, targeted vouchers can achieve the goal of improving health of poor women and children, elements that improve access to high quality health care services, how targeted voucher subsidies help meet the goal of contributing to development of a national social health insurance system that is accessible, affordable and acceptable (Kenya); a nationwide, high transaction distribution project for insecticide treated nets (ITNs) that has given rise to the application of technologies in the use of a relational database as a means to track each voucher transaction, ensuring security and traceability, providing spatial analysis using GPS coordinates, leveraging data from this project to others by providing a central data repository to government, and exploring SMS and mobile phones for automating voucher transactions and gathering patient information (Tanzania); and how poor pregnant women were selected for vouchers jointly by field workers and community support group members, how the institutionalization process for the voucher scheme was implemented, and how the health facilities were strengthened to provide quality maternal health care (Bangladesh).
Moderator:
April Harding, Center for Global Development
Presenters:
Anna C. Gorter, PhD | presentation
Francis Kundu | presentation
Jerry Quigley | presentation
Rob Ubaidur, PhD | presentation
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| C4: | Bringing Family Planning to the People: Novel Approaches to Involving and Reaching Communities
Presenters Discuss: the Health Extension Program (HEP) implementation in Ethiopia, the effects of the HEP in increasing access to injectable contraceptives at the community level, and successful features of the process to other settings (Ethiopia, Africa); methods of examining cost effectiveness and quality of services in a community-based family planning project (northern Nigeria); the key activities of a community-based project targeting urban poor postpartum women and the resulting changes that have occurred in knowledge of healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy (HTSP) and use of lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) and other family planning (FP) methods (Kathmandu, Nepal); and several approaches for large-scale delivery of contraceptive implants and other family planning services to low-income communities (Global, Asia).
Moderator:
Catharine McKaig, Jhpiego
Presenters:
Mengistu Asnake, MD | presentation
Heng Kheng, MD | presentation
Jill Posner, PhD | presentation
Shannon Pryor | presentation
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| C5: | Pathways to Success in Diarrheal Disease Control
Presenters Discuss: barriers to inclusion of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions as components of maternal and child health programs, recent innovations to facilitate integrated programming for diarrheal disease control across preventive water and sanitation interventions, and other preventive interventions, and management/treatment interventions; how Ethiopia created a community platform to increase coverage of a combination of diarrhea prevention cornerstones; (Ethiopia); the results of research designed to understand the global funding and policy landscape surrounding diarrheal disease (DD), and barriers and opportunities for increasing its priority in global health, the need for advocates and program implementers to work across water/sanitation and health sectors, and findings from the study, with an emphasis on the need for, and barriers to, cross-sectoral cooperation (global); AED’s community-based partnerships to change rural medical provider (RMP) behavior in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India (Uttar Pradesh, India).
Moderator:
Richard Walker, PATH
Presenters:
John Borrazzo
Mary Carnell, MD
Leigh Fiske | presentation
Camille Saade
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| C6: | Task Shifting to Strengthen HIV Care
Presenters Discuss: the HIV Medic Task-shifting Program for scaling up anti-retroviral therapy (ARV) in resource-limited countries, how this task-shifting program has increased the numbers of patients on ARVs overtime, and the decrease in mortality rate by using HIV Medics in seven clinics (Uganda, Africa); how barriers within health systems are overcome via a community health promotion model and the application of the transtheoretical model for predicting participant success in HIV adherence interventions (Miami, United States, Haiti); the problem of transport costs and distance as barriers to HIV testing and bringing the testing services to the people in (Mazabuza District, Zambia); and how the use of electronic decision support can reduce the dependence on physicians for the screening of patients on AIDS treatment (Africa).
Moderator:
Maggwa Baker Ndugga, Family Health International
Presenters:
Mary Adair | presentation | presentation
Bethany Hedt, PhD | presentation
Sonjia Kenya, EdD | presentation
Marie Lichtenberg | presentation
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| Thursday, May 28, 2009: 10:45 am-12:30 pm |
| D1: | Innovations in TB Case Detection and Delivery of Treatment
Presenters Discuss: the validity of symptomatic screening as a strategy for intensified tuberculosis (TB) case-finding (Swaziland); how quality improvement methods have improved case detection of HIV-TB patients (Vietnam); the need for urgent implementation of innovative activities to achieve global targets for TB control set by the 1991 World Health Assembly, 2015 Millennium Development Goals and Stop TB Partnership (Samastipur district of Bihar, India); and the importance of community perceptions on the implementation of interventions, using the community-directed interventions (CDI) approach (Africa).
Moderator:
Robert Eiss, MA, Fogarty International Center/NIH
Presenters:
Samson Haumba | presentation
Dang Hung, MD | presentation
Alpana Singh, MSW | presentation
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| D2: | On the Move: Mobile Health
Presenters Discuss: the overall strategic approach to mHealth taken by the Millennium Villages Project and use the experiences of pilot testing and implementing mHealth activities and applications in Ruhiira Uganda (Uganda, Africa Region); the present use of mobile phone technology in the microfinance industry (MFI) and new and expanded applications for mobile-based services (India); why the mHealth Alliance was created and how it will develop and incubate the framework and solutions for the nascent mHealth sector (global); and how rapid HIV tests and handheld technologies are being used for population-wide door-to-door HIV screening (Kenya).
Moderator:
Neal Lesh, PhD, D-tree International
Presenters:
Anita Katusiime | presentation
Janine Schooley, MPH | presentation
Mitul Shah | presentation
Martin Were, MD | presentation
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| D3: | Microfinance and Health Insurance Strategies to Improve Health Status
Presenters Discuss: how community based organizations can, with stimulation, effectively generate, manage and utilize health funds for improving healthcare access and mitigate burden of debt among the urban poor community (Agra, India); how innovative financing mechanisms help extend the reach of clean water to low-income households (Indonesia); the experiences and results from five microfinance institutions (MFIs) that are providing health protection packages to poor MFI clients, how MFIs can sustainably provide health products and services, improve the health of poor families, and provide greater protection from health-related financial shocks (Bénin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, India, Philippines); and the impact of Ghana’s National Health Insurance (NHI) on health care utilization and expenditures, and the effect of insurance on use of maternal health care services (Ghana).
Moderator:
Mursaleena Islam, PhD, Abt Associates Inc.
Presenters:
Siddharth Agarwal | presentation
Slavea Chankova | presentation
Allen Hollenbach, MPA | presentation
Marcia Metcalfe | presentation
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| D4: | Sexual Violence and Coping Strategies in Conflict Settings
Presenters Discuss: the causes, prevalence and consequences of the sexual experiences and HIV vulnerability of former girl child soldiers (Liberia); how applied qualitative research can inform locally-appropriate measures to better assess the mental health needs of HIV/AIDS-affected children in diverse cultural settings (Rwinkwavu, Rwanda); different strategies used by Save the Children to engage influential groups, displaced community members, women's groups, and men to promote utilization of family planning programs, and the various determinate factors that influence the demand and use of modern contraceptive methods (Darfur, Sudan); and key emotional, social, medico-legal and health-related issues to address in counseling women with traumatic fistula from sexual violence and the process of developing counseling training materials based on established best practices in a variety of settings (Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Guinea).
Moderator:
Susan Purdin, RN, International Rescue Committee
Presenters:
Ribka Amsalu | presentation
Theresa Betancourt, ScD | presentation
Joseph Ruminjo | presentation
Theodore Scott | presentation
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| D5: | Better Beginnings: Improving Neonatal Outcomes
Presenters Discuss: the acceptability and practicability of skin to skin care for low birth weight (LBW) newborns in a rural African community, and the importance of local adaptation of recommended care practices (Sub Saharan Africa); the cost-effectiveness of sunflower seed oil (SSO) and synthetic Aquaphor for hospitalized preterm infants (<33 weeks gestation) relative to no treatment (Bangladesh); and the importance of the combined action of women’s groups and of government health services to reduce neonatal and infant mortality (Nepal).
Moderator:
David Oot, Save the Children
Presenters:
Alessandra Bazzano, PhD | presentation
Sam Shillcutt | presentation
Bhagawan Das Shrestha | presentation
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| D6: | Use of Community Health Workers to Improve Health Services
Presenters Discuss: how a proven strategy of using well-structured training and job-aids has enabled community health workers (CHWs) to use malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) accurately and safely at the village level (Zambia); a two year observational study undertaken to evaluate the impact and potential cost savings of deploying artemether- lumefantrine (AL), with rapid diagnostic testing through CHWs to improve malaria control (northern Ethiopia); the results, including behavioral outcomes and costs, of malaria prevention, including insecticide-treated bed nets (ITN) distribution, based upon a school-based approach versus an approach that relies upon health volunteers and paid health workers (Liberia); and which aspects of a community-based distribution program are essential to its success (Uganda).
Moderator:
Anna Thompson-Quaye, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Presenters:
Helen Counihan, MS | presentation
Christopher McDermott, MA | presentation
Kellen Namusisi, MS | presentation
Hailemariam Lemma Reda, MPH | presentation
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| Thursday, May 28, 2009: 3:30-5:15 pm |
| E1: | Innovative Strategies Addressing Malaria in Pregnancy:
Leading to Healthier Outcomes
Presenters Discuss: interventions to control malaria in pregnancy (MIP) and the process of community directed intervention as applied to MIP (Nigeria); the challenges facing Angolan healthcare workers in delivering quality antenatal care/malaria in pregnancy (ANC/MIP) services and how improved data collection and usage by health care workers can help to improve the quality of ANC/MIP services in low-resource settings (Angola); and the roles of understanding drug behaviors in the treatment of malaria in pregnancy and changing disease and drug use patterns in the era of HIV, impacting efficacy and safety of antimalarial treatment in pregnancy (Mali, West Africa, Zambia).
Moderator:
Elaine Roman, MPH, Jhpiego
Presenters:
WR Brieger, MPH | presentation
Evelize Fresta | presentation
Myaing Nyunt, MD | presentation
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| E2: | Case Study: Developing Public Goods and Intellectual Capacity Through Collaboration: The OpenMRS Experience
Presenters Discuss: the Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) community, which formed in early 2004 in response to the need for collaboratively developed patient-level medical record systems. This community comes together to specifically respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world. The mission is to foster self-sustaining health information technology implementations in these environments through peer mentorship, proactive collaboration, and a code base that equals or surpasses proprietary equivalents. To date, the central “products” of collective work are a free and open-source enterprise-quality electronic medical record system, a mentorship program for those interested in developing and implementing health information technology in resource-constrained environments, and a growing community of implementers and end-users all working together to care for the poorest of the poor. OpenMRS operates as a multi-institution, nonprofit collaborative led by the Regenstrief Institute and Partners In Health. OpenMRS has been implemented in 15 developing countries in support of approximately two million patient records. During this presentation, participants can expect a personal recount of the history of the OpenMRS project, and understand how an initial deep working collaboration between two of the largest HIV care initiatives within Africa have given birth to a growing international collaborative which simultaneously builds human and technologic capacity throughout resource constrained healthcare environments. Participants can also speak directly with one of the many beneficiaries of the work, as he will speak first hand of the benefits of OpenMRS within his country, Rwanda.
Presenters:
Paul Biondich, MD | presentation
Martin Were, MD | presentation
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| E3: | Gender Perspectives and Women's Health
Presenters Discuss: what practices lead to successful integration of multiple gender strategies within HIV prevention, treatment, care and support programs, (12 countries in sub Saharan Africa: Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia); evidence from strongly evaluated programs that integrated gender to improve reproductive health outcomes, and components of strong and successful gender programs (developing countries); the significance of involving men in reproductive health in a male-dominated society, three empowerment strategies that increase participation/learning in a post-conflict population and policy change implications (Afghanistan); and what in the wording of the questions, or in the interview context, leads women/men to exaggerate or understate their justification of intimate partner violence (IPV) and the source of women's and men's ambivalence about whether IPV is justified (Bangladesh).
Moderator:
Therese McGinn, DRPH, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Presenters:
Karen Hardee, PhD | presentation
Saranga Jain, MPP | presentation
Taraneh Salke, MPH | presentation
Sidney Schuler, PhD | presentation
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| E4: | Feeding the Future: Preventing Malnutrition in Infants and Children
Presenters Discuss: how a simple technology, the child feeding bowl, can improve young child feeding practices (Bolivia); infant feeding practices (Kenya); and how to reduce anemia prevalence among young children by integrating a strategy to distribute micronutrient powder into an existing government health system (Maharashtra, India).
Moderator:
Thomas Schaetzel, PhD, The Manoff Group, Inc.
Presenters:
Victoria Vivas de Alvarado | presentation
Kiersten Israel-Ballard, DRPH | presentation
Elviyanti Martini, MS | presentation
MD. Aminuzzaman Talukder, MPH | presentation
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| E5: | Integrated Service Delivery: HIV- Maternal Child Health
Presenters Discuss: the extent of family planning (FP)/reproductive health (RH)/HIV integration in Kenya, the existing policy and operational barriers to integration, and the recommendations for eliminating barriers going forward (Kenya); key ways to use the maternal and child health (MCH) platform to scale up pediatric HIV care and treatment interventions (Africa); and the benefits of a community-organizing model for program sustainability and the usefulness of an integrated development approach to HIV programming (East and central African).
Moderator:
Edward Dennison, Family Health International
Presenters:
Meghan Bishop, MS | presentation
Gloria Ekpo, MD | presentation
Gail Goodridge, MS | presentation
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| Friday, May 29, 2009: 10:45 am-12:30 pm |
| F1: | Accelerating Access to New Health Technologies
Presenters Discuss: the role emerging country vaccine manufacturers play in supplying global EPI vaccines and how the Serum Institute of India (SIIL) has partnered with the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) to develop a new meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Sub-Saharan Africa); the main features of an advance market commitment (AMC), including the objectives, key design features, and principal stakeholders, using the pilot AMC for pneumococcal vaccines as an example; how priority review vouchers can encourage development and innovation in the treatment of neglected diseases, what diseases and products are covered under this new, innovative program, how the vouchers will be used and traded in the market place, and what drugs and vaccines may be the first to obtain a voucher; and the role of product development partnerships (PDPs) and public-private partnerships among academia, industry, governments, and civil society in addressing critical gaps between the needs of developing countries and urgently needed new drugs, diagnostics, devices, vaccines and microbicides (Africa, Asia, Latin America).
Moderator:
Kaitlin Christenson, PATH
Presenters:
Santiago Ferro, MD | presentation
Anna Heard | presentation
Orin Levine, PhD | presentation
Peg Willingham | presentation
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| F2: | Using Public Private Partnerships to Launch New Technologies and Products
Presenters Discuss: new methods for efficient delivery of health services in remote areas by collaborating with companies to deploy state-of-the art mobile clinics (northern Uganda); how behavioral determinants analysis, by providing actionable evidence on how to design communication campaigns, can contribute to scale up point-of-use water treatment programs (Madagascar); practical insights on the formation of a public-private partnership to create a new long lasting insecticide impregnated net (LLIN) manufacturing process, its transfer to developing country companies, and the difficulties of going through WHO’s testing process, political and commercial opposition, and the process of bringing a new product into the African market place. (Africa, Asia); and Academy for Educational Development’s (AED) strategy targeting self-help groups to provide safe drinking water to families (Uttar Pradesh, India).
Moderator:
Pamela Bolton, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Presenters:
Busulwa Ivan | presentation
Willard Shaw, M.Ed
Meagan Wilson, M.Ed | presentation
Christian Winger, MA | presentation
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| F4: | Postpartum Hemorrhage: New Findings and Innovative Technologies
Presenters Discuss: possible risk factors for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) and the impact of active management of the third stage of labor and its components on postpartum blood loss (Global: Egypt, Ecuador, Turkey, Burkina Faso and Turkey); a demonstration project to assess feasibility, acceptability, and safety of oxytocin in Uniject as a first step to introducing the device on a national scale, and strategies for scaling up use of oxytocin-Uniject™ devices with time-temperature indicator (TTI) for the prevention of PPH (Mali); techniques for estimating blood loss for the early and accurate diagnosis of PPH and cost-effective and reliable techniques for improved blood loss estimation in rural settings (India, Tanzania) and the importance of obstetric hemorrhage as a cause of maternal mortality and morbidity in low-resource settings, the potential contribution of the non-pneumatic anti-shock harment (NASG) to reducing death and disability from obstetric hemorrhage (Nigeria).
Moderator:
Suellen Miller, PhD, University of California San Francisco
Presenters:
Jill Durocher | presentation
Susheela Engelbrecht, CNM | presentation
Stacie Geller, PhD | presentation
Dosu Ojengbede | presentation
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| F5: | Tools for Implementers
Presenters Discuss: Non-Profit Organizations Knowledge Initiative (NPOKI), the value of MERIT (Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting and Integration Tool) as a monitoring and evaluation solution and (Ethiopia, Tanzania); the inner workings of a program that brings together civil society, the public sector, multiple donors, and the private sector to engage civil society organizations (CSOs) in the fight against AIDS (Tanzania); how using a web-based data management system (WBDMS) can improve collection, storage, retrieval, and reporting of home-based care (HBC) data (Tanzania); and Rwanda’s National AIDS Control Commission’s (CNLS) use of an integrated information and communications technologies (ICT) strategy and web-based HIV and AIDS response management as an engine for managing program development, and economic growth, and poverty reduction and as an efficient tool for national and global competitiveness (Rwanda).
Moderator:
William Lester, NPOKI, Non-Profit Organizations Knowledge Initiative
Presenters:
Surya Ganguly | presentation | scorecard | worksheet
Thomas Kipingili | presentation
Michael Machaku, MA | presentation
Bedjo Rwisumbura | presentation
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| F6: | Quality Improvement for Orphan and Vulnerable Children Programs:
Moving Standards to the Field
Presenters Discuss: how applying modern quality improvement methods have made a measurable difference in children’s well being (Ethiopia); how to support quality improvement efforts for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) services in their own countries. Using the new Road Map for Quality Improvement (QI) for OVC Services, participants will be able to identify the steps needed as country teams to improve quality for OVC (Ethiopia, Tanzania); that providing effective services for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) must include organizational changes at the local level (Tanzania); and different methods that can be used to monitor and evaluate the quality of services provided by OVC programs (Sub-Saharan Africa).
Moderator:
Lynne Miller Franco, University Research Co., LLC
Presenters:
Kendra Blackett-Dibinga, MPH | presentation
Marie-Eve Hammink | presentation
Joyce Kivamba | presentation
Florence Nyangara, PhD | presentation
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| Friday, May 29, 2009: 2:30-4:15 pm |
| G1: | Ensuring Quality and Access to New Drugs
Presenters Discuss: the industrial, regulatory, and economic hurdles necessary to make a generic drug such as oxytocin for injection available in an innovative new form of primary packaging such the Uniject prefillable injection device (global); what practical measures can be taken to control risk to patients from substandard and counterfeit medicines (PEPFAR countries); the importance of addressing drug registration backlogs and strategies used in resource limited settings, and the importance of leveraging partners and country to country collaborations (Botswana); and Family Health International’s initiative to introduce a low-cost contraceptive implant into resource-constrained countries, including quality assurance and registration efforts (global).
Moderator:
Ashifi Gogo, Dartmouth College
Presenters:
Steve Brooke, MBA | presentation
Mohammed Jinnah | presentation
Stanley Mapiki, MS | presentation
Markus Steiner, PhD | presentation
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| G2: | Improved Health through Knowledge Networks
Presenters Discuss: a theoretical model that explains the underlying process through which information and communication technologies (ICTs) can enhance the capacity of health workers in developing regions and health knowledge and attitudes held by midwives, with particular focus on mythic attitudes and misconceptions that are known to be a significant deterrent of health practices (Aceh Besar region, Indonesia); how members of the Afro-European Medical and Research Network share and exchange public health information/experiences on distance through innovative approaches based on new technologies and communication tools, the importance of partnerships, networks and communities of practice for global health (Sub-Saharan Africa, European Partners); the benefits of participating in and developing virtual knowledge pathways to work with health care professionals to support the transfer of information and the sharing of knowledge to improve practice (global); and how web-based technology (the RHInterchange) helped enhance a community of practice around data for decision-making, how the website (RHInterchange http://rhi.rhsupplies.org) has operationalized “donor harmonization,” and key considerations to developing appropriate technology solutions (global).
Moderator:
Dykki Settle, IntraHealth International
Presenters:
Margaret D'Adamo, MS | presentation
Charles Senessie, MD | presentation
Mimi Whitehouse, MBA | presentation
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| G4: | What's New? Technologies for RH Awareness-Raising in Youth
Presenters Discuss: how a 360 degree approach (TV, cinema, print, radio, outdoor, internet and on-ground activities) and innovative use of new media can engage communities on a taboo topic like condoms (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, India); how to engage young girls in preventing HIV by staying focused on their goals and becoming activists through the exchange of real life experiences using interactive real radio (Malawi); participatory training on fertility and gender awareness and skills for navigating puberty for young adolescents and their parents, how working with young adolescents requires adjusting curricula, approaches, and assessment methods (Guatemala, Madagascar); and how a simple tool—the School Safety Contract—works to prevent violence and dropouts and improve health (Uganda).
Moderator:
Cate Lane, Pathfinder International
Presenters:
Paul Crystal
Susan Igras, MPH | presentation
Yvonne MacPherson | presentation
Glory Mkandawire | presentation
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| G5: | Catapulting Health Facilities into the Next Millennium
Presenters Discuss: the process and outcomes of computerizing individual patient records for multiple HIV treatment sites (Kenya); how implementing a hospital-wide information technology (IT) solution at a national hospital improves general management and health care service delivery (Tanzania); and a successful approach to implementing nationwide public health laboratory modernization in a resource-limited country (Tanzania).
Moderator:
Trevor Peter, Clinton Foundation HIV AIDS Initiative
Presenters:
Adam Kichawele | presentation
Kenneth Lema, MD | presentation
Kendra Wyatt | presentation
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| G6: | Health Workforce: Addressing the Crisis
Presenters Discuss: the key elements of the workload indicators of staffing need (WISN) methodology and the benefits of a "bottom-up" application of the WISN methodology, especially in a decentralized setting (Indonesia); the critical issues that need to be addressed in order to retain mid-level providers and improve their performance (Malawi, Tanzania); country-level needs for human resources information systems (HRIS), key features of sustainable HRIS, uses of HRIS to improve human resources management, planning and policy formation (Uganda); and the steps to follow in the design of a pro-poor rural retention scheme and the systems, processes and documentation needed to ensure efficient management of the retention scheme (Zambia).
Moderator:
Anne Wilson, IntraHealth International
Presenters:
Riitta-Liisa Kolehmainen-Aitken, MD | presentation
Melinda Ojermark | presentation
Samwel Wakibi | presentation
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| Saturday, May 30, 2009: 9:45-11:30 am |
| H1: | Pharmaceutical and Logistical Info Systems
Presenters Discuss: how strengthening pharmaceutical management information systems will enhance the quality of service for HIV/AIDS patients (Ethiopia); the progress of the management of drugs in the public sector (Cambodia); the benefits and challenges associated with designing and implementing a web-based logistics management information system (LMIS) for managing family planning commodities (Bangladesh); and how the health of communities hinges on reliable supply chains, how achieving excellence in the health care supply chain can have a catalytic effect that spurs improvement in other areas of community development (Guyana).
Moderator:
David Jamieson, Supply Chain Management System (SCMS)
Presenters:
Gultineh Kebede
Buntor Kov | presentation
Shyam Lama, MA | presentation
Leslie Ramsammy
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| H2: | Community Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage
Presenters Discuss: three community-based (CB) programs that distribute misoprostol to prevent postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) and two reasons that make misoprostol a potentially exciting and effective drug for CB programs (global); how rapid test technology facilitates the integration of safe blood transfusion into trauma and basic emergency obstetrical services in resource-poor settings where refrigeration and advanced laboratory capacity is unavailable; how introduction of oxytocin-Uniject devices with time-temperature indicator (TTI) can increase access to active management of the third stage of labor (AMTSL), how advocacy efforts for AMTSL and oxytocin-Uniject devices with TTI can be done simultaneously, an approach to increase uptake of AMTSL that addresses needs from the community to the facility level, and use of oxytocin in Uniject where birth attendants’ skills are limited (Mali, Nepal, Guatemala, Honduras); and the potential role of misoprostol in PPH prevention in home deliveries (Pakistan).
Moderator:
Jill Durocher, Gynuity Health Projects
Presenters:
Deborah Armbruster, CNM
Jim Litch
Naushaba Mobeen Abbas
Saw Nay Htoo | presentation
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| H3: | Implementing Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: Lessons from the Field
Presenters Discuss: the role of the Male Circumcision (MC) Task Force in national scale-up efforts; and the importance of having a multidisciplinary team to spearhead MC efforts (Zambia); the human resource challenges facing the scale-up of MC in developing countries, lessons learned from the development and use of the WHO/UNAIDS/Jhpiego MC learning resource package (Zambia); and Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK) out reach activities adapted to the provision of male circumcision in a MSK MC pilot project which provide insights useful in scaling up the implementation of high quality, effective and efficient voluntary male circumcision interventions in rural Kenya, and lessons learned from the MC pilot project to improve the efficiency and quality of service provision and scale up MC service provision (Nyanza Province, western Kenya).
Moderator:
Jason Reed, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Presenters:
Florence Mulenga, MPH | presentation
Walter Odhiambo, MS
Emmanuel Otolorin
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