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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 27, 2006

• 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 2005 MAQ Mini-University
• Need More Information?
• 2006 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 day-long forum offering nearly 60 different sessions highlighting evidence-based best practices and state-of-the-art information from a variety of technical areas across the Global Health field. The forum is divided into four hour-long blocks, each offering 14 concurrent presentations. In addition, two exciting brown bag sessions are offered during the lunch break. The day culminates with a Knowledge Extravaganza session and the N'Lightening Round, a lively competition during which take-home messages from the sessions are presented and prizes are awarded for the top three messages.

NEW! NURSING/MIDWIFE CEUs: This is the second year that Continuing Education Units will be offered at the Mini-U. Participants may now earn up to 0.5 Continuing Education Units from the American College of Nurse Midwives for only $25!

Application for specialty credit for 11 sessions has been made to ACNM. 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 FINAL KNOWLEDGE EXTRAVAGANZA FROM 3:30-4:30 IN ROOM 101!

Keep on learning and join the fun! Kent Hill, Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health at USAID, and Dean Ruth Katz of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, will be offering prescient remarks to open the Knowledge Extravaganza!

Come see presenters compete for the best "pearls" before a panel of judges, including:

• Dean Ruth Katz of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
• Gloria Steele, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health at USAID
• Margaret Neuse, Director Emeritus of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health at USAID
• Richard Greene, Director of the Office of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition at USAID
• Ken Yamashita, Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS at USAID

Name Badge and Certificate: If you would like to have a pre-printed name badge with your course schedule printed on the back and/or a Global Health Mini-University graduation certificate with your name printed on it, you must register online by Friday, October 20, 2006.

Details of the Event

Date:	Friday, October 27, 2006
Place:	The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services Ross Hall 2300 Eye St NW Washington, DC 20037
Time:	8:15 AM - 9:15 AM : Check-in and Exhibits 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 Extravaganza * Lunch Sessions will run from 12:00 - 12:50. See below under "Lunch Session" details.

Sessions and Facilitators

Below is the 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 (e.g., Postabortion Care 101 (0.1 CEU))

Cross-cutting

1. Improvement Collaboratives
   Location: H6121
   Time Period IV
   James Heiby

2. Another poster? How to Program Effective Behavior Change Communications (BCC)
   Location: 323
   Time Period I
   Elizabeth Younger, Lisa Sherburne

3. Billions Available in Health Care . Can Managers Use it Effectively?
   Location: 323
   Time Period II
   Joseph Dwyer, Sylvia Vriesendorp

4. The Elephant in the Room: Integrating the Private Sector in Quality Improvement Mechanisms
   Location: 104
   Time Period III
   Ruth Berg, Jeffrey Barnes, and Mary Segall

5. .Where have all the workers gone?.: The extent of the global healthcare worker shortage, why workers are leaving and some strategies for addressing the crisis.
   Location: 116
   Time Period II
   Lois Schaefer and Pam McQuide

6. .A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.: Creative utilization of existing providers to improve the human resource situation and service delivery in low resource settings.
   Location: 229
   Time Period IV
   Barbara Stilwell, Paul Ruwoldt, and Lois Schaefer

7. Rational Drug Use: Experiences and Lessons Learned from ART Programs
   Location: 114
   Time Period III
   Bannet Ndyanabangi

8. Preventing Sexual Risk Behaviors among Young People: More Evidence on What Works
   Location: 224
   Time Period II
   Shanti Conly

9. Gender-based Violence: What can RH/HIV/MH PROGRAMS do about it?
   Location: 116
   Time Period III
   Mary Ellsberg, Michal Avni, Diana Prieto

10. New Evidence Ensuring Strategic Use of M&E Data
    Location: 116A
    Time Period III
    Charles Teller, Edward Abel, Shannon Salentine, Scott Moreland, Nicole Judice

11. NGOs in Global Health: How Do They Matter?
    Location: H6116
    Time Period IV
    Karen LeBan and Lynette Walker

12. Global Health: A View from the Hill
    Location: 101
    Lunch Session
    Tim Rieser

13. In sickness and in wealth: A community approach to pay for healthcare
    Location: 305H
    Time Period I
    Yogesh Rajkotia

14. Cost-Effective Health Investments: The Biggest Bang for the Buck
    Location: 224
    Time Period IV
    Fariyal Fikree and Ramanan Laxminarayan

15. The Supply Chain: Procurement, Logistics, and why you care
    Location: 224
    Time Period III
    The Stock Boys

16. Prescriptions for Development: Health Linkages with other Development Objectives
    Location: 117
    Time Period I
    Forest Duncan and Kelly Saldana

17. Assessing a health system: A new systematic tool
    Location: 104
    Time Period II
    Laura Harley, Mursaleena Islam, Catherine Conner, Grace Adeya

18. The Urban Crucible: We Cannot Ignore the Urban Health Imperative
    Location: 114
    Time Period IV
    Vic Barbiero

19. What is USAID.s role in rebuilding the health sectors in Afghanistan and Iraq: Compare and contrast.
    Location: 101
    Time Period III
    Jim Griffin and Leslie Perry

20. Poor quality Medicines: What You Need to Know
    Location: 116A
    Time Period IV
    Abdelkrim Smine

21. Knowledge Extravaganza (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 101
    Jim Shelton and Judges Panel

Family Planning and Reproductive Health

22. Making the Link .Integrating Population, Health and the Environment
    Location: 116A
    Time Period I
    Heather D.Agnes, Judy Oglethorpe

23. Don.t Take it on Faith - Evidence for Standard Days Method (SDM) in Repositioning Family Planning (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 305H
    Time Period III
    Victoria Jennings and Bernard Balibuno

24. Misoprostol for prevention of postpartum hemorrhage and for uterine evacuation in postabortion care (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 104
    Time Period IV
    Patricia Stephenson and Harshad Sanghvi

25. Contraceptives: What.s Hot, What.s Not, and What.s in the Pipeline (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 305H
    Time Period II
    Judy Manning, Mihira Karra

26. Post Abortion Care 101: Everything you wanted to know, but didn.t know what to ask (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 115
    Time Period I
    Carolyn Curtis

27. Contraception: The Best Kept Secret in HIV Prevention
    Location: 227
    Time Period IV
    Heidi Reynolds and Rose Wilcher

28. Strategies for Building RH/FP Champions: The Role of Private Midwives
    Location: T1
    Time Period I
    Mary Segall, Meaghan Smith, and Pauline Muhuhu

29. After the Fact: Family Planning During the Postpartum Period (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 115
    Time Period II
    Catharine McKaig and Barbara Deller

30. Using What Works . Key Best Practices for Family Planning Programs
    Location: 115
    Time Period IV
    Elizabeth Warnick, Jason Smith

31. Paying More than Lip Service to Long-Acting and Permanent (LAP) Methods
    Location: 104
    Time Period I
    John M. Pile and Nicholas S. Kanlisi

32. New Evidence on Pregnancy Spacing and Neonatal and Maternal Health-- How can Pregnancy Spacing Contribute to Healthy Pregnancy Outcomes? (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 305H
    Time Period IV
    Maureen Norton

HIV/AIDS

33. Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children: Approaching the Child.s Experience
    Location: 229
    Time Period I
    Kirk Felsman

34. .Testing. the limits: HIV counseling and testing in clinics, communities, and beyond
    Location: 229
    Time Period III
    Alison Surdo

35. HIV Prevention: So much risk, so little time . a participatory guide to concurrent sexual partnerships
    Location: 229
    Time Period II
    Michael Cassell

36. Making Successful Advances . Microbicides in Human Trials (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 227
    Time Period III
    Lee Claypool

37. But It Looked So Simple: Thinking Through the Ramifications of Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention
    Location: 105
    Time Period IV
    Jim Shelton

38. HIV Nutrition and Infant Health: the "Forgotten" Element in PMTCT/OVC Care
    Location: 114
    Time Period I
    Judy Canahuati

39. Adult & Pediatric HIV/AIDS Treatment- Similarities and Differences (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 201
    Time Period III
    Robert Ferris

40. Junkies and Hookers and Queers, Oh My . HIV Prevention with Most at Risk Populations
    Location: 224
    Time Period I
    Billy Pick

41. A Walk Along the PMTCT Cascade: Improving the Impact of Programs to Prevent Mother To Child Transmission of HIV
    Location: 116
    Time Period IV
    Matthew Barnhart

42. Programming for TB and HIV
    Location: 105
    Time Period II
    Amy Bloom

43. Palliative Care: rethinking the term
    Location: H6121
    Time Period II
    Ilana Lapidos-Salaiz

Infectious Diseases

44. Ending the cycle of misery caused by neglected tropical diseases
    Location: 116A
    Time Period II
    Alan Fenwick

45. Beyond DOTS: The STOP TB Strategy
    Location: 116
    Time Period I
    Susan Bacheller

46. Malaria Control and the President's Malaria Initiative
    Location: 227
    Lunch Session
    Mike MacDonald, Laura Harley

47. Avian Influenza: Y2K, again?
    Location: 117
    Time Period II
    Dennis Carroll

Maternal and Child Health

48. Saving Mothers: Evidence and Issues
    Location: H6116
    Time Period III
    Mary Ellen Stanton and Barbara Deller

49. Infant and Young Child Feeding: New Directions and Program Strategies
    Location: 114
    Time Period II
    Rae Galloway

50. Still doubting? FGM/C and Obstetric Complications - the evidence of a linkage
    Location: 105
    Time Period III
    Doyin Oluwole

51. Update on obstetric and traumatic gynecologic fistula programming: Voices from Guinea
    Location: H6121
    Time Period III
    Joseph Ruminjo, Patricia McDonald, Lucy Wilson

52. Against all odds: Surviving the first month of life (0.1 CEU)
    Location: H6121
    Time Period I
    Lily Kak and Indira Narayanan

53. Latest and Greatest in Hygiene Improvement, Sanitation, and Safe Water
    Location: T1
    Time Period II
    John Borrazzo, Merri Weinger, Catherine O.Brien, Chuck Szymanski

54. Immunization: The Bold and the New, the Tried and the True
    Location: 115
    Time Period III
    Youssef Tawfik and Rebecca Fields

55. Diarrhea: Back to the Future
    Location: T1
    Time Period IV
    Diana Silimperi and Emmanuel Wansi

56. Revitalizing Child Survival
    Location: 105
    Time Period I
    Diana Silimperi

57. The Killer in the Kitchen: The Risks of Indoor Smoke and What We Can Do About It
    Location: T1
    Time Period III
    John Borrazzo

58. Food Fortification
    Location: Lobby A
    Time Period I
    Omar Dary

59. Maternal Anemia
    Location: Lobby A
    Time Period II
    Phil Harvey

Directions to the Mini-University:

This year's Mini-University will take place at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Ross Hall, in Washington, DC. Ross Hall is located at 2300 Eye St NW, right next to the Foggy Bottom Metro station. The registration area is on the first floor near the entrance. Please bring a picture ID.

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

For more information about the GWU School of Public Health and Health Services, please visit their information page.

For More Information:

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

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