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2009 Global Health Mini-University Sessions
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- Check-In: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
- Session I: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
- Session II: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
- Session III: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
- Brown Bag Session: 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
- Session IV: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Knowledge Extravaganza: 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Cross-Cutting
Beyond lip service: Tools for challenging gender norms and understanding sexuality in health programs
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Doris Bartel
While public health and development agencies have placed gender as key area of concern for years, many have yet to achieve true gender transformative results. This session will explore how health and development programs can be more explicit in working through socially defined constructs such as gender and sexuality including sharing tools and methodologies for exploring staff and community transformation.
Materials:
Beyond Lip Service
Big footprints:Disaster or Development in Rebuilding Afghanistan
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Anne Peterson
Bigger, Better, Faster, Cheaper: How Mobile Technology is Transforming Health Programs
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Adam Slote, Peggy D'Adamo
A new report predicts that the number of mobile phone users worldwide will reach 4.4 billion in 2009, and that the most rapid growth will take place in the developing world. There is a growing body of evidence that demonstrates the potential of mobile technology (mobile phones, PDAs and netbooks) to improve healthcare services – even in remote or resource-poor environments. Participants will gain a better appreciation of the variety of mHealth applications already being used in low-income countries, the health needs to which mHealth can be best applied, and the mHealth solutions that have the greatest promise for health program impact by increasing scale, improving quality, speeding implementation and lowering costs.
Boots and Birkenstocks: Can civil-military cooperation improve global health?
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Gene Bonventre
USAID and the Department of Defense have been thrust into a “shared space” in Iraq, Afghanistan, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and beyond. What are the implications of this closer relationship for global health? How does it impact USAID’s implementing partners? This acronym-free discussion will outline the military’s health programs and explore ways for USAID personnel to make sense of the military’s impact on health development.
Materials:Boots and Birkenstocks
Everything you want to know and more about the USAID Budget Process
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Robin Boyer
Planning, allocation, and implementation of funds involves many players. From the furthest country to Congress up the street, each plays an important role in how the money flows. Come learn how it all works!
Finding Your Way: USAID Career Development Panel
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session
Instructor(s): Angela Weaver, Jeff Spieler, Ben Gustafson, Marie Ahmed
This panel will consist of a number of technical staff, with varying backgrounds and experiences, who work at USAID in the Global Health Bureau (GH). The session will primarily provide an opportunity for participants to ask questions regarding career path and choices. Participants will walk away with a sense of qualities, skills, knowledge and experience valued and needed to work in the international health field and at USAID.
Gender: From a term to an integrated approach- Lessons learned from current USAID health projects
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Mary Kincaid, Constance Newman
What does it mean to incorporate gender into USAID projects? How do projects address gender as part of their policy, service delivery and research mandates? Join this panel of project teams to learn about their experiences, including approaches to develop activities, implementation tools and samples of results.
Materials:
Gender Gender Integration - Capacity Project
Going the last mile: How can we achieve “healthcare information for all”? Knowledge for Health (K4Health)
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Tara Sullivan
What information do health professionals need? How should it be delivered, accessed, and adapted at global, regional, and national levels? Come find out what the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) program found out following its global health information needs assessment. • Find out how organizations are using new technologies to make information available. • Discover what over 800 professionals said they needed in an online survey. • Learn the field-level view from one of the first multi-country qualitative studies on healthcare information requirements. Please join us for a presentation of key results and a lively discussion regarding the implications of these findings for achieving “healthcare information for all.”
Materials:Info for All
Integration through Segmentation: Customizing Suppy Chain for Improved Public Health outcomes
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Linda Allain, John Durgavich, Jennifer Antilla
While Ministries of Health are under pressure to integrate program-based vertical supply chains in an effort to deliver increasing quantities of a wide range of essential health commodities, experience has shown that a “one-size-fits-all” approach to supply chain management adversely impacts the effectiveness of their distribution. For example, a temperature-sensitive vaccine should not be managed in the same way as condoms. This participatory session will provide an overview of the supply chain segmentation approach, demonstrating how to re-engineer a supply chain based on product and customer characteristics. Learn how good customer service through supply chain segmentation can be achieved in countries like Kenya and Nigeria. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Logistics for Health Commodities.
Making the Grade: Using the Evidence to Support School-Based Sex Education
Location: To Be Determined
Session II
Instructor(s): Karah Fazekas, Dhianaraj Chetty
UNESCO's new evidence-based International Guidelines on Sexuality Education provide a rights-based framework for offering information and knowledge to children and young people about sex, relationships and HIV/STIs within a structured teaching/learning process. Here is a chance to learn about the new guidelines including the basic minimum package of age appropriate topics and necessary steps for building support and ownership among education and health authorities and institutions, including curriculum developers, school principals and teachers.
Mission Impossible? A mental health impact assessment in Rwanda’s newly liberalized coffee industry
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Jutta Tobias
Mental health impact assessments in ethnic conflict societies are difficult, and need to include community factors. Lingering ethnic tensions in post-conflict zones call for careful planning and creative implementation of evaluations. Poverty-reduction policies in ethnic conflict zones can not only lead to wealth-creation, but also encourage better health and well-being among people, and better relations between groups. In this way, the potential for renewed violence between groups is reduced.
Materials:Mental Health
Rites and Rights—Abandoning Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs, Kakenya Ntaiya
A statistical overview of the prevalence and trends of FGM/C in countries where it is practiced, and a behind-the-scenes look from one of the women who are helping to make change happen in her country.
The Promise of the President’s Global Health Initiative
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Gloria Steele
On May 5, 2009, President Obama announced his 6-year, $63M Global Health Initiative. The goals of the Initiative are to prevent millions of new HIV infections, reduce maternal and child mortality, avert unintended pregnancies, and eliminate selected neglected tropical diseases. This session will give participants the latest information on the principles, technical and country focus, and structure of the Initiative and provide an opportunity for discussion of how the Initiative will influence USAID’s MCH and FP programming in developing countries.
The road from where to why: better data and better decision support tools using GIS and geographic data
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): John Spencer, Andrew Inglis
Adding geographic context to M&E data can lead to stronger data as well as a better understanding of the data collected. Through the creation of decision support tools such as maps and linking and exploring the relationship between datasets, GIS is a valuable tool in the M&E toolbox. This session provides examples of how incorporating geography has improved the quality of facility data, linked datasets for OVC program planning that may not have been linked before and lead to better decision support tools for malaria and HIV/AIDS interventions and treatment.
Materials:Data and Decisions Using GIS
What Congress Wants from You: Think Strategically, Spend Wisely, Achieve Sustainable Results
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session
Instructor(s): Michelle Sumilas
Michele Sumilas, a Professional Staff for the House Committee on Appropriations State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee, will discuss what Congress expects from the into apropriations for global health.
Whose life is it anyway?--Social/Behavior Change Communication
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Antje Becker-Benton
Join us for an engaging session to learn both new and seasoned approaches towards social and behavioral change, empathy and putting ourselves in the shoes of our audiences. The session will focus first on how social/behavior change communication (SBCC) experiences and models have evolved - including the latest discussions of behavioral economics and right brain thinking - and then introduce exercises to enhance communication creativity and audience understanding.
Materials:SBCC
Family Planning and Maternal Health Integration
Something for Everyone! FP and MNCH Integration
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Catharine McKaig, Elaine Charurat
What do providers, policy makers and women themselves consider the most important maternal, newborn and child health service? What do they say about the barriers to using services? Does including family planning really affect the use of other essential services? Please join us for this highly interactive session examining issues related to FP and MNCH integration. We will describe the methodology, share the tools used, and the findings from assessments in two unique settings, Nigeria and Afghanistan. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Postpartum Family Planning.
Materials:FP/ MNCH Integration
Family Planning and Reproductive Health
A is for 'Access' - increasing the use of long-acting methods
Location: To Be Determined
Session II
Instructor(s): Brad Lucas
Long-acting methods, especially IUDs, barely contribute to contraceptive use rates in most developing countries. Is it because these methods don't meet the contraceptive needs of women in these countries? Why don't providers like IUDs? Can we change this paradigm? Yes we can. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, IUD.
Materials:A is for
Addressing poverty-equity in health program design, implementation and evaluation
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Karen Foreit
The session will provide recommendations for activities to reduce poverty inequities in health. It will cover using survey data to identify poverty-related inequalities and analytic techniques to disentangle the effects of poverty and place of residence; geographic, infrastructure, and operational factors that may influence the success of interventions to reach the poor; and selecting appropriate indicators to monitor and evaluate strategies designed to reduce poverty-related inequities in service utilization and health outcomes.
Materials:Poverty Equity
Contraceptive R&D – What’s New, What’s Around the Corner and What Still Remains to be Developed?
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Jeff Spieler
Some of the current unmet need for family planning, estimated at 200 million women, and some of the relatively high rates of discontinuation of some current methods, estimated at up to 50% in 6 months, can be resolved, in part, with improved and new contraceptive methods. The presentation will provide an educational and entertaining review, with some samples, of incremental improvement of existing methods, new contraceptive and dual purpose methods that will be available within the next 2-5 years and a discussion of what methods still need to be developed.
Credit is an Engine of Growth: Expanding Quality Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services in the Private Sector
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Meaghan Smith
Over the past 5 years, the USAID-funded Banking on Health Project has worked in 12 countries to expand access to financing for private health care business, improving their capacity to deliver high-quality reproductive health and family planning services. This presentation will showcase: Innovative strategies for working with financial institutions to expand lending to the private health sector; Development Credit Authority guarantees and other public private partnerships that leverage financing for the private health sector; Business training and support services that strengthen the capacity of private providers; Programming that expands reproductive health and family planning in the private sector; A video of private health providers in Zambia, discussing constraints in the private health sector and opportunities to improve their practices.
CSR and NGO-Corporate Partnerships: Building the Business Case and Leveraging Corporate Networks for RH/FP and Women’s Health
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): David Wofford, Shawn MacDonald
Corporations and their suppliers rarely make the health needs or RH/FP of their workers priorities in their CSR programs. Extending Service Delivery, USAID’s flagship family planning project, has partnered with NGOs and corporations to demonstrate the business benefits of investing in health and RH/FP and develop workplace models for addressing women’s – and men’s – RH/FP needs. This presentation will examine how CSR structures and workplace models can be leveraged to expand access to services for poor and underserved populations.
Materials:Corporate Social Responsibility
Expanding Access to Injectable Contraceptives - the role of Community Health Workers (CHWs)
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): John Stanback, Victoria Graham
At a recent WHO-USAID-FHI Consultation on Community-Based Access to Injectable Contraceptives there was a strong recommendation that CHWs should be providing DMPA. This presentation will include a discussion of policy and program decision, and country experiences with the provision of DMPA by CHWs. You will be introduced to the emerging strategies that bring DMPA and other methods into the community. We will also discuss the impact that Depo subQ in Uniject may have in further expanding access including home injection. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Hormonal Methods of Contraception.
Materials:Role of CHWs
Family Planning: The Elevator Speech
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Scott Radloff
Family planning is a unique intervention in that it impacts on a plethora of health and development problems. If we were in an 87 story building, it would be easy to explain the essence of these impacts to a fellow elevator rider. But what if we are traveling just three floors? This session will review the manifold problems for which family planning is a solution and will touch on how the rationale for family planning has evolved over time and place. You will leave this session with the essential elements for your elevator speech.
Materials:FP Elevator Speech
GET FOCUSED on FP/HIV Integration: 10 Steps to Improve Services
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Susan Adamchak
Using findings from recent research, this session will describe ten basic actions that will lead to stronger FP-HIV integrated services. These cover all phases of program implementation. The facilitator will lead a discussion on ways to “get focused” on integration.
Materials:FP/HIV Integration
Universal access for postabortion family planning--Failing women no longer!
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Douglas Huber , Erin Mielke
How will they do it? A new initiative from the three leading international professional organizations delivering postabortion care affirms a vision for how they will collaborate, reorganize services, and lead their members, policy makers, and country leaders to make postabortion family planning universal. Impossible? Come, see, and be part of a new force.
Materials:PAC Family Planning
Voices From the Field: Muslim Religious Leaders Promoting Benefits of Family Planning
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Maureen Norton, Leah Freji, Milka Dinev
A practical experience of engaging Muslim Religious Leaders. Examples will be shared from work in Egypt, Yemen, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan. After this session, participants will have a better understanding of what works in religious conservative settings, what FP messages are acceptable for religious leaders to deliver, and encourage the use of RH/FP services. ESD will also share its facilitation guide book “Mobilizing Muslim Religious Leaders for Reproductive Health and Family Planning at the Community Level: A Training Manual.”
Materials:Muslim Leaders and FP
Whose Choice is it Anyway? Informed Choice Re-Examined
Location: To Be Determined
Session II
Instructor(s): Rebecka Lundgren, Jewel Gausman
Have you ever said, “In my unbiased opinion …”? Did you mean it? While programs and providers try to give their clients a broad range of family planning options, and intend to let clients choose their preferred method, bias often creeps in. Find out how providers in India, Rwanda, and Peru counsel mystery clients who want to use pills, IUDs, and Standard Days Method. Challenge yourself and your colleagues to provide bias-free information to your very own mystery client. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Family Planning Counseling.
Health Systems
Counterfeit and Substandard Medicines- A Clear and Present Danger
Location: To Be Determined
Session II
Instructor(s): Veerle Coignez
The presentation will focus on threats posed by counterfeit and substandard medicines, and a discussion of why the business continues to thrive and suggestions about holistic approaches to curtail the problem including current technologies to detect them in the field. Recent data on the quality of most commonly used ACTs and SP in select African countries will also be briefly discussed.
Global leadership and development—To liberate Sisyphus: myth or potential
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Tim Allen, Joan Mansour
This session will explore the efforts over the last decade to promote, deliver and measure the results of leadership and management strengthening at the global level. Participants will learn about leadership development approaches and results and understand the challenges of evaluating the outcomes of leadership development. The group will discuss the importance of advocacy for leadership and management in Health Systems Strengthening and the power of combining clinical best practices in FP with the emerging advances in leadership and change management applications. In Greek mythology Sisyphus was sentenced to eternal punishment to repeat the same task of pushing a rock up a hill, only to see it roll down again. Can leadership development break the cycle. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Fostering Change in Health Systems.
Materials:Global Leadership
Improving Care for Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) – The ART Framework hypothesis testing in Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Uganda
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Larissa Jennings
ARV therapy for AIDS can save millions of lives and is a major investments in global health. Yet, many AIDS patients are not receiving ARVs, many drop out of treatment, and those on ARV are not necessarily doing well. This framework defines good care for patients on ARV as: Patients requiring ARVs getting them, those getting them - staying on them, and those staying on them – doing well. It applies PDSA’s to bridge the gaps.
Materials:ART Framework
Managing for a Motivated and Productive Health Workforce - What Does it Take?
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Lois Schaefer, Jim McCaffery
How are the United States Federal Government and the Ministry of Health of Kenya alike? Both are struggling to keep their workforce satisfied, motivated and productive. What are they doing and is it effective? Not surprisingly, their approaches differ in a number of ways, but the lessons being learned about human resource leadership and management have much in common. This session will explore the components of human resource management that are needed to address the needs of workers – as well as the health care system – in order to ensure the quality of services provided and keep workers productive and on the job. And find out just how much alike workers for the USG and MOH really are! *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Human Resources for Health (HRH) Basics.
Materials:Productive Health Workforce
Only for the Wealthy? Reaching the Poor with Quality Private Health Sector Services through Social Franchising and Output-Based Aid
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Ruth Berg, Cynthia Eldridge, Gael O'Sullivan
Faced with limited resources to address the developing world’s most pressing health needs, donors and local governments are increasingly turning to the private health sector to help meet global health goals. However concerns about whether the private sector can effectively serve the poor at affordable prices without compromising quality are common. This session shows how combining social franchising with output-based aid can successfully increase access among the poor to affordable and high quality private sector health services.
Materials:Only for the Wealthy
Resource Tracking for Financial Accountability and Overall Aid Efficiency – The Future of NHA
Location: To Be Determined
Session II
Instructor(s): Steve Musau
National Health Accounts (NHA) has made a major contribution to the creation of evidence-based health policy and more effective health programs. Governments realize that more benefit can be realized from the NHA by combining it with other resource tracking tools such as public expenditure tracking surveys or public expenditure reviews. Resource tracking in this broader sense can make NHA a sustainable routine practice to inform policy for equitable and efficient use of funds.
Strengthening information systems for community based HIV programs
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Heidi Reynolds
Information systems for community based HIV programs are weak relative to those facility based systems. A meeting was held in July 2009 with diverse participation to identify gaps and propose solutions to strengthen those systems. Mini-U participants will gain and overview of the evidence in this area of developing community based information systems including the existing experiences and tools and will learn about the proposed solutions to fill gaps (lessons and solutions are drawn from the non-HIV field as well). Participants will have an opportunity to comment on proposed plans to develop harmonize indicators at the international level.
Materials:Strengthening Info Systems
Taking the pulse of policy – a participatory approach to assessing policy implementation
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Suneeta Sharma, Anita Bhuyan
Countries the world over have adopted FP/RH, HIV, and maternal health policies. However, policies are not always implemented as envisioned and do not necessarily achieve intended results. The USAID | Health Policy Initiative has designed an approach and tool for assessing policy implementation. The Policy Implementation Assessment Tool (PIAT) enables stakeholders to gather information about a multifaceted process in a systematic, user-friendly manner. With this evidence, they can better understand what is and is not working, explore root causes, and begin to devise solutions to identified barriers. We will discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the tool, present the steps for applying the tool, and describe the pilot test and key findings from Guatemala and India.
Materials:Policy Implementation
Uganda's User Fee Policy: To Have or Have Not
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): John Osika, Ellie Brown
Uganda was in the forefront of a growing trend in Africa to remove user fees for basic health services in 2001. Did it work? Are households paying less for public health services? Presenters will share lessons over the last 15 years on user fees, and will examine the debate revolving around removal of user fees for primary health care. The results of the National Health Accounts analysis for 2007 compared to 2001 will be shared and the session will open for discussion of the implications for other countries contemplating user fee reduction/removal.
HIV/AIDS
Add an ounce of prevention to that pound of cure: Integrating HIV Prevention into care and treatment settings
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Pam Bachanas
Each year, approximately 2.5 million people become newly infected with HIV, a trend expected to continue unless effective prevention interventions are rapidly brought to scale in the areas hardest-hit by HIV/AIDS. The rapid scale-up of HIV care and treatment in resource-limited settings has created an opportunity to reach many HIV-positive individuals with prevention messages and services on a regular basis. This presentation will review prevention interventions for health care providers and counselors to routinely deliver to HIV-positive patients in clinic settings including, basic behavioral messages for prevention of sexual transmission, family planning, management of sexually transmitted infections, and counseling on ARV adherence and alcohol use. The challenges of integrating prevention services into busy HIV clinics will be discussed.
Materials:Integ HIV Prev
HIV and Nutrition: Evidence, Emerging Issues, and Promising Practices
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Tim Quick, Amie Heaps
Food is often stated as the most urgent need of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their families. For many PLHIV, the infection causes or aggravates malnutrition through reduced food intake, increased energy needs, and poor nutrient absorption. Thus, there is a need to provide nutritional support as a component of comprehensive care and treatment of PLHIV. This session will discuss some of the evidence, emerging issues, and promising practices surrounding nutrition and HIV.
Materials:HIV & Nutrition
Integrating Mental Health Services in HIV care programs: the time has come for a more holistic healing approach of HIV infected persons
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Jude Awuba
With the advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and highly active ART (HAART), HIV once a dead sentence has now become a chronic disease. However, PLHIV and their families experience a range of mental and psychosocial needs that vary over the course of the illness. Integrating mental health services into HIV care programs provide an opportunity for a more holistic approach in the continuum of care as well as improving on their quality of life of PLHIV.
Materials:Mental Health in HIV Services
Join the Moment: PMTCT as a Means to Create a Generation Free of HIV
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Allison Spensley
Great strides have been made in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV, but many challenges remain. This session will provide an overview of the current global status of PMTCT, recent research findings, and state of the art implementation practices. It will also outline strategies for successful program implementation and explore ongoing challenges in scale-up and program decision making. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Mother to Child Transmission of HIV.
Materials:PMTCT
Junkies, Hookers, and Queers – Oh My! Most at Risk Populations for HIV programming
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Clancy Broxton
HIV programming for most at-risk populations (MARPs) will be the focus of this session, with an emphasis on prevention efforts targeting intravenous drug users, men who have sex with men, sex workers, and clients of sex workers. The presentation will present a strategic approach to HIV prevention programming for MARPs based upon lessons learned from programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Materials:Pop. at Risk
Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Status: Planning HIV Testing and Counseling Programs to Reach Prevention, Care and Treatment Goals
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Alison Surdo
There has been significant progress in the scale-up of HIV testing and counseling (HTC) services in several countries in recent years. Part of the challenge in implementing HTC services is planning programs that meet both prevention as well as care and treatment goals--and reaching the right target populations in the process. This presentation will provide an overview of different approaches of HTC and how they can be used effectively to reach broader HIV program goals in generalized and concentrated epidemics. We will also discuss the most recent hot topics in HTC.
Materials:Know Your Status
More than a Snip: Challenges and Progress in Integrating Male Circumcision into HIV Prevention Programs
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Kelly Curran, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli
A brief review the evidence on MC, including new data published since the clinical trials on the potential public health impact, the relationship between MC and other STIs, and sexual pleasure among men and women post-circumcision. This session will include some of the challenges MC programs have faced in the two years since scale up began and will discuss solutions that are being implemented to overcome those challenges.
Materials:Male Circumcision
OK, Culture Matters, So Now What? Culture and HIV/AIDS Revisited
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Suzanne Leclerc- Madlala
Lack of consistent consideration of the cultural aspects of HIV prevention has been one of the most serious shortcomings of institutional strategies and policy on HIV/AIDS. The limited success of HIV prevention has forced the scientific community to look beyond existing biomedical and behavioral interventions for ways to address the wider contextual determinants of the disease. Using peoples’ lifestyles, values and beliefs as a central reference for the development of HIV/AIDS action plans will help to ensure that prevention, among other things, does not continue to miss its mark. How do we do this? What and where are the opportunities? What can we expect as results? Come & discuss the evocative subject of culture and HIV/AIDS.
Prevention first! The Challenge of Effective Combination HIV Prevention
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Jim Shelton, Shanti Conly
The highly generalized HIV epidemics in Southern and East Africa represent the epicenter of the global epidemic. Preventing new HIV infections in these "hyperendemic" settings is the most important challenge in HIV today. Formulating an effective prevention response begins with understanding the complex nature of these epidemics and the dynamics of HIV transmission in these settings. The current approach to prevention calls for strategically combining diverse prevention interventions to address different drivers in order to maximize population-level impact. Come and discuss the pros and cons of these interventions and how to put them all together in a strategic way. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, HIV Basics.
Rah! Rah! Rah! Cheering for Children: Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children and what it means in developing countries
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Gretchen Bachman, Colette Bottini
This session will take a look at the global situation of children orphaned by, affected by, or vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and how the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is working with partners from all sectors to address their plight. Through these partnerships, the hope is that these orphaned and vulnerable children (OVCs) will receive the following services: strengthening the capacity of families, mobilizing and supporting community-based responses, ensuring their access to essential services, ensuring government protection through improved policy, raising awareness, and helping them acquire the skills and knowledge.
Materials:OVC
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Advances and Updates in HIV Treatment
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Robert Ferris, Tom Minior
The explosion in new HIV treatment options has been accompanied by fascinating new research linking HIV to chronic diseases, using treatment as prevention, and even a return of whispers that HIV could be ‘cured’ someday. It’s too bad it all may implode from the impending explosion of costs necessary to sustain treatment programs across the world. The presentation will cover some of the basics of HIV treatment, new directions in antiretroviral therapy, and will explore some interesting topics like using antiretrovirals for prevention and the cost crisis facing treatment programs in resource-limited settings.
Materials:Updates in HIV Treatment
Infectious Diseases
INFLUENZA – It was not if but when, and the when is NOW!
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Murray Trostle
Over the last five years the world has been battling the threat posed by avian influenza (H5N1), one of the most dangerous influenza viruses that we have seen in a long time. Then the virus threw us a curve and mutated in swine and came at us with a new virus (H1N1). Now we are in the early stages of a pandemic that could stay mild or get very serious. The challenge is what do we do and how do we prepare? Come and hear some background on the current threat and what difficult decisions face the global public health community in preparing for and responding to a pandemic of a potentially very dangerous virus.
Malaria: Something old, something new, something borrowed…
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Eric Tongren
We have taken weapons from the past including DDT, mosquito nets, and malaria drugs based on ancient Chinese herbals; have developed a new arsenal including rapid diagnostics, treatment regimens, and dare say malaria vaccines; and have borrowed other discipline approaches with the formation of coalitions of public, private, and commercial sector partners all working together to "roll back" this ancient scourge and reduce the mortality and morbidity which burdens humanity. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Malaria.
Materials:Malaria
Malaria: Scaling up Home-based Management for Children
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Ciro Franco
This presentation will explore mechanisms for scaling up malaria interventions, the feasibility of using Rapid Diagnostic Tests at the community level, considerations when implementing integrated programs versus stand-alone programs, and recommendations for meeting today’s challenges in the prevention and treatment of malaria. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Malaria.
Materials:Malaria
Seven Nasty Little Buggers We Can Prevent – Integrated Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Angela Weaver, Eric Ottesen
What do 6 worms and one bacterium have in common? Come find out at this interactive session on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that will link basic science with programmatic approaches in the field that have the potential to impact the more than one billion people who suffer from seven of the most common NTDs.
TB 101: A breath of fresh air on an old topic
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Sangeeta Mookherji
This session will review the basics about TB prevention and control, progress towards the achievement of the STOP TB Partnership's targets, as well as challenges such as multi drug resistant TB and extensively drug resistant TB. The session will cover Directly Observed Treatment, Shortcourse (DOTS), the STOP TB strategy, and highlight progress in developing new tools to combat TB. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Tuberculosis Basics.
Zzz, zzz, zzz ...splat: Effective BCC for Malaria Prevention
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Marc Boulay
There is a growing recognition that behavior change communication is a necessary component of national strategies intending to scale up malaria control activities to achieve universal coverage. However, there is limited guidance on the message content or communication channels that BCC programs should use to most effectively promote behaviors regarding malaria prevention and treatment. This session will provide an overview of the factors associated with malaria prevention and treatment behaviors and will use new data from studies in Tanzania and Zambia to highlight potential message strategies and assess the role of community-based and mass media activities to convey these messages to the public. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Malaria.
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
From PPH to PE/E: Targeting another major killer of mothers and newborns
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Linda Bartlett, Barbara Rawlins
While pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) is one of the major causes of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality, globally little has been done to target prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in low-resource settings. The lessons learned in targeting postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) are being used to do the same for PE/E, and these along with the efforts being made to simplify diagnosis and treatment will be presented. A description of the MCHIP approach to PE/E along with information on Quality of Care Assessments that will be conducted in MCHIP focus countries will be described. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online courses at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Essential Newborn Care and Maternal Survival—Programming Issues.
Immunization: a
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Robert Steinglass
Immunization just got a whole lot better. 25% of existing under-5 mortality has recently become vaccine-preventable with new vaccines against diarrhea and pneumonia now ready for introduction in developing countries. Learn what it takes to keep vaccination programs strong, so that mortality reduction gains can be sustained and MDG goals achieved. Express your views on how to achieve public health goals at scale through parental, community and country support for vaccination programs. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Immunization Essentials.
It's not just about children anymore: innovations in maternal and child health (MCH) programming
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Lily Kak
When USAID and UNICEF launched the global “Child Survival Revolution” in the early 1980s, the number of children dying each year was estimated at 15 million. There is increasing recognition that further progress will rely on more effective integrated programming across the so-called "continuum of care". This session will focus on the best practices in integrated programming and illustrate how they are reflected in USAID's MCH activities.
Lipid-based nutrient supplements and prevention of malnutrition
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Camila Chaparro
The presentation will describe what "lipid-based nutrient supplements" or "LNS" are, and the beginnings of their use for prevention of malnutrition in different target groups, in addition to their current programmatic use for treatment of severe acute malnutrition in young children. Advantages and disadvantages of using LNS for prevention of malnutrition will be discussed in the context of other approaches. Past and current research to investigate the potential of LNS for prevention will be briefly reviewed.
Networking to Improve Fistula Treatment in Nigeria
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Erin Mielke, Evelyn Landry
Fistula Care technical assistance helped establish a clinical peer support network to encourage standardization and improve the quality of fistula services. Two key features of the network will be discussed: 1. Quarterly retreats for fistula providers to discuss challenges they face and together create solutions to these challenges; and 2. ‘Pooled Efforts” or Mini Campaigns for fistula repairs, designed to help reduce the backlog of women waiting for surgery.
Materials:Nigeria Fistula Network
Nutrition and Food Security
Location: To Be Determined
Session II
Instructor(s): Laura Birx
This presentation will review current global status and trends of nutrition, will highlight the linkages between nutrition and food security, and discuss nutrition programming in the context of food security
Postnatal/partum care: It is all about timing and contents for the mother and the baby
Location: To Be Determined
Session II
Instructor(s): Joseph Johnson
Saving the lives of mothers and newborns requires that interventions preventing or treating the causes of death are available during the first week after birth. MCHIP’s program guidelines for post-natal and post-partum care at the facility and community levels based on current WHO/UNICEF guidelines and the application of the new WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement for newborn care will be described in addition to lessons on reaching mothers and newborns during that essential seven day period. *In order to prepare for this session, please see the RECOMMENDED precursor online course at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm entitled, Postpartum Care.
Sustainable, successful community health worker programs
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Lauren Crigler, Troy Jacobs, Allison Wittcoff
Most community health workers providing basic health services in communities are volunteers, receive little if any compensation and are not recognized as part of the formal health system – Yet CHWs are the most important link to the community. How can we help them be successful? How can we make sure that they receive the support they need to do their work? And what systems need to be in place to ensure the program’s continuity? HCI has developed a tool and a process which defines the key elements needed for CHW programs to function effectively, measures how well programs meet these criteria, and provides a simple and actionable model for program improvement. During the seminar, URC staff will present the tool in detail, explain how it is implemented in the field, discuss the benefits of employing the tool and leave time for questions and open discussion.
Materials:Community Health Workers
Why dealing with #2 is #1 for Maternal and Child health: Innovative Approaches to Hygiene and Sanitation Improvement
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Julia Rosenbaum, Merri Weinger
Why hygiene and sanitation? Because two and a half billion people still lack basic sanitation services, contributing to diarrheal disease as one of the top causes of childhood morbidity and mortality. And adopting simple hygiene behaviors and proper use of simple, affordable sanitation technologies can practically eliminate the risk of contracting diarrhea.
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