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THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ANYONE INTERESTED IN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH.

Welcome to the USAID Global Health Mini-University Webpage
"Program Science in Action"
Friday, October 14

• Register for the 2005 GH Mini University
• Download Mini U Presentations HERE!
• What is the Mini-University?
• Details of the Event
• Sessions and Facilitators
• Directions to the Mini-University
• Highlights from the 2004 MAQ Mini-University
• Need More Information?
• 2005 Global Health Mini-University Photos

• Schedule at a Glance - MS Excel file

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What is the Mini-University?

The Mini-University is a forum that features more than 50 presentations highlighting "best practices" in a variety of technical areas. Participants will attend a total of four sessions based on their own interests. Sessions will be 1 hour in length and will emphasize interactive group discussion and exploration of the various topics.

NEW at the Mini U! Participants may now earn up to four Continuing Education Units from the American College of Nurse Midwives for only $25!

Check the schedule for course offerings. Participants may pay by CHECK ONLY the day of the event. Checks should be made payable to Johns Hopkins University.

Don't miss the Knowledge Distillation Session from 3:30-4:30 in Academy Hall!

Come see presenters compete for the best "pearls" before a panel of judges including Global Health Bureau Acting Assistant Administrator, Kent Hill.

Certificate: If you are requesting a Global Health Mini-University graduation certificate, you must register online by Friday, October 7, 2005, in order to have your name printed on this certificate.

Details of the Event

Date:	Friday, October 14, 2005
Place:	AED Conference Center, 1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Time:	8:15 AM - 9:15 AM : Check-in 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM : Time Period 1 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM : Time Period 2 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM: Lunch on your own or sessions* 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM : Time Period 3 2:15 PM- 3:15 PM: Time Period 4 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM : Knowledge Distillation Session * Lunch Sessions will run from 12:00 - 12:50. See below under "Lunch Session" details.

Sessions and Facilitators

Here is a list of the state-of-the-art technical sessions and facilitators that will be featured in the upcoming Mini-University. For a more detailed list, click on sessions or one of the links below.

Continuing Education Units are indicated in parentheses following the course title (eg. PROGRAMMING FOR HIV & TB (1 CEU) )

Child Health

1. If It’s So Good For Babies, Why Is It So Hard For Mothers?: Lessons Learned on the Way to Becoming Mother-and-Baby Friendly
   Location: Angle B
   Time Period II
   Julie Canahuati

2. Immunization IS Sexy: Are Vaccines the Magic Bullet for Child Survival?
   Location: Angle B
   Time Period IV
   Murray Trostle

3. Newborn Health - A Key Need and Challenge in the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
   Location: Vista B
   Time Period III
   Indira Narayanan

Cross Cutting Issues

4. The Urban Crucible: How Can We Ignore the Urban Health Imperative?
   Location: Vista C
   Time Period II
   Vic Barbiero

5. Why Invest in Behavior Change Communication?
   Location: Balcony E
   Time Period I
   Nancy Lowenthal, Alice Payne Merritt

6. Substandard and Fake Medicines: A Threat to Global Health
   Location: Vista A
   Time Period II
   Joyce Carpenter, Kama Garrison

7. WHERE HAVE ALL THE WORKERS GONE? MEETING THE MDGS WITHOUT HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS (1 CEU)
   Location: Greely Hall
   Time Period I
   Lois Schaefer

8. Getting the Most from Social Marketing Programs: Achieving Health Impact While Building Sustainable Markets
   Location: Vista B
   Time Period II
   Shyami de Silva, Francoise Armand

9. Quality Improvement Collaboratives
   Location: Balcony C
   Time Period II
   Jim Heiby

10. Shedding New Light on Methods for Revitalizing Evaluation in Health
    Location: Balcony B
    Time Period II
    Charles Teller, Philip Setel

11. Key Methodologies of Health Facility Assessment: SPA, SAM, HFC, VCT/PMTCT Mapping
    Location: Balcony B
    Time Period I
    Bolaji Fapohunda, Dai Hazumi

12. Reporting to Congress: One Voice, Many Stories
    Location: Angle A
    Time Period I
    Matt Sattah, John Novak

13. Measuring Public Health System Performance (Health System Strengthening in the Context of Public Health)
    Location: Angle C
    Time Period II
    Kelly Saldana, Forest Duncan

14. Leading Change - A Missing Link in Implementing Best Practices
    Location: Vista A
    Time Period I
    Joseph Dwyer, Roy Jacobstein

15. Health and Development Link: Where Are We?
    Location: Vista A
    Time Period III
    Margaret Saunders, Richard Cornelius

16. Youth: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in the Developing World
    Location: Balcony D
    Time Period III
    Cynthia Lloyd

17. GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: IS THERE ANYTHING THAT RH/HIV/MH PROGRAMS CAN DO ABOUT IT? (1 CEU)
    Location: Academy Hall A
    Time Period III
    Michal Avni, Diana Prieto

18. Community-Based Interventions - Nepal and Beyond
    Location: Vista B
    Time Period IV
    TBD, Ram Shrestha

Environmental Health

19. Scrub a Dub Dub... Or Is There Something New in Hygiene?
    Location: Angle A
    Time Period III
    John Borrazzo

HIV/AIDS

20. Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
    Location: Balcony D
    Time Period II
    Heather Bergmann, Allison Nowlin Spensley

21. HIV/AIDS Treatment: What Public Health Generalists Need to Know
    Location: Academy Hall B
    Time Period I
    Stephen Lee

22. HIV Prevention Still a Top Priority: Challenges in an Era of Emerging Innovations and Expanded Treatment Access
    Location: Academy Hall B
    Time Period III
    Michael Cassell

23. Expanding HIV Service Delivery Through Faith-Based Organizations
    Location: Angle B
    Time Period I
    Chad Hayward, Emily Chambers

24. Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: Thought for Food
    Location: Balcony D
    Time Period I
    Timothy Quick

25. From Institutions to Community Care and Support: The Evolution of Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
    Location: Board Room
    Time Period IV
    Renee DiMarco and Thebisa Chaava,

26. HIV/AIDS Care and Support
    Location: Academy Hall A
    Time Period I
    Julie Chitty, Sara Bowsky

27. The Evolving Role of HIV Counseling and Testing in HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment: New Approaches and Lessons Learned
    Location: Greely Hall
    Time Period IV
    Allison Surdo

28. Myths and Misconceptions About the HIV Epidemic
    Location: Greely Hall
    Time Period II
    David Stanton

29. WOMEN TAKE 'CIDES AGAINST AIDS: MICROBICIDES UPDATE 2005 (1 CEU)
    Location: Board Room
    Time Period III
    Jeff Spieler, Lee Claypool

30. Supply Chain Management of HIV/AIDS Related Commodities: Current Issues
    Location: Academy Hall A
    Time Period II
    Mike Hope, Carl Hawkins

31. HIV Stigma and Discrimination
    Location: Balcony E
    Time Period III
    Julie Pulerwitz, Laura Nyblade

32. Programming for TB and HIV
    Location: Angle C
    Time Period I
    Julie Wallace

33. Male Circumcision: Update on New Evidence
    Location: Greely Hall
    Time Period III
    David Stanton

34. HIV Programming for High Risk Groups
    Location: Angle C
    Time Period IV
    Billy Pick

Infectious Disease

35. Malaria Treatment & Prevention
    Location: Angle C
    Time Period III
    Lawrence Barat

36. Conquering Polio:  How Close Are We?
    Location: Angle B
    Time Period III
    Ellyn Ogden

Lunch Sessions

37. Avian Flu: What You Can Do
    Location: Academy Hall A
    Lunch Session
    Dennis Carroll

38. Fragile and Strategic States: From Policy to Practice
    Location: Academy Hall B
    Lunch Session
    Gary Cook, Clydette Powell

Maternal Health

39. Integrated, Community-Based Post-Partum Care: An Urgent Unmet Need
    Location: Vista A
    Time Period IV
    Mary Ellen Stanton, Maureen Norton

40. PREVENTING AND TREATING POST-PARTUM HEMORRHAGE (1 CEU)
    Location: Board Room
    Time Period I
    Patricia Stephenson, Deborah Armbruster, Harshad Sanghvi

41. Vaginal Fistula: What Is It and What Can Be Done About It?
    Location: Balcony C
    Time Period III
    Patricia Macdonald, Mary Nell Wegner

Nutrition

42. Update on Preventing Micronutrient Deficiencies
    Location: Angle A
    Time Period IV
    Keith West

43. New Vistas in Diarrhea Management with Zinc and ORS
    Location: Angle A
    Time Period II
    Patricia Paredes

Reproductive Health/Family Planning

44. Getting to the Tipping Point: Research to Practice with the Standard Days Method and the Female Condom
    Location: Vista C
    Time Period I
    Victoria Jennings

45. FAMILY PLANNING SUCCESSES IN AFRICA:  MOVING PROGRAMS FORWARD (1 CEU)
    Location: Balcony E
    Time Period IV
    Margaret Neuse, Julie Solo

46. Female Genital Cutting in Africa: Lessons Learned from Operations Research
    Location: Vista B
    Time Period I
    Nahla Abdel Tawab, Layla Shaaban

47. Integrating Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Services: From Evidence to Action
    Location: Academy Hall B
    Time Period II
    Rose Wilcher, TBD

48. New Evidence on Birth Spacing and Neonatal Mortality
    Location: Balcony C
    Time Period I
    Maureen Norton

49. Turning Cash into Contraceptives: Using PRSPs and Reproductive Health Accounts to Improve Contraceptive Security
    Location: Balcony B
    Time Period III
    Tania Dmytraczenko, Caroline Quijada

50. Community-Based Distribution: Lessons From the Past, Directions for the Future
    Location: Balcony C
    Time Period IV
    Shawn Malarcher, Jim Foreit

51. BEYOND THE BARRIERS: STRATEGIES FOR JUMPSTARTING THE IUD IN AFRICA (1 CEU)
    Location: Balcony E
    Time Period II
    Roy Jacobstein, Erin McGinn

52. Issues and Controversies in Hormonal Contraception
    Location: Vista C
    Time Period IV
    Jeff Spieler

53. Reducing the Knowing-to-Doing Gap: How Utilizing Research Is Changing Reproductive Health Programming
    Location: Balcony B
    Time Period IV
    Liz Warnick, TBD

54. POST ABORTION CARE 101: EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW, BUT DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO ASK (1 CEU)
    Location: Balcony D
    Time Period IV
    Carolyn Curtis

55. CONTRACEPTION FOR WOMEN ON ARVS (1 CEU)
    Location: Board Room
    Time Period II
    Jim Shelton

56. Can Generic Manufacturers Help Increase Access to Affordable Commodities in the Developing World?
    Location: Vista C
    Time Period III
    Francoise Armand

Directions to the Mini-University:

This year's Mini-University will take place at the AED Conference Center in Washington, DC. The Conference Center is located at 1825 Connecticut Avenue NW, in the "Universal South" building. Take the elevator to the 8th floor and follow the signs to the Mini-U Registration area.

For more information about the AED Conference Center, please visit their information page.

Click here for more detailed directions from Maryland, Virginia, and the Metro.

For More Information:

Please contact Rushna Ravji at (202) 712-4548 or rravji@usaid.gov, or contact Elizabeth Greene at (202)712-0843 or egreene@usaid.gov.

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