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2008 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 Behavior Change Communication to Social Change
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Karabi Acharya, Susan Middlestadt
A major challenge for USAID is achieving and sustaining behavior change effects at scale. One way of doing this is to activate social change by engaging social systems. This session will introduce the issue of social change and present the SCALE approach applied to Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy. SCALE is a process for catalyzing large-scale social change: by involving stakeholders at many levels in a social system; by strengthening the networks that connect them; and by helping them unite and take action around a common ground. The session will be highly interactive and will include activities to illustrate the value of a social systems approach.
Materials:
Beyond Behavior Change Communication
Developing Global Standards for Health Management Information Systems
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Anwer Aqil, Beatriz Plaza
Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) provide the needed information to support health system governance and accountability. This session will introduce important tools that produce standards for an effective and efficient information system and support health information system strategic planning. As well as decision making in public health and in health services management. It will highlight the Performance of Routine Information System Management (PRISM) framework and Health Metrics Network Assessment Tool, and country experiences from Pakistan, Uganda, China, and Haiti.
Materials:Developing Global Standards for HMIS
Do you believe in yourself? In your job? Do you do good work? Are you valued? How employee engagement and quality intersect to support community health workers
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Lauren Crigler
Developing countries face a health workforce crisis, with a well-documented shortage of skilled providers for primary care services. Tapping into a community-based workforce to deliver these services would be ideal, however often presents with many problems of sustainability and productivity. This session will explore the application of private sector quality improvement and human resource management techniques to engage community health workers and make the most of this valuable resource.
Materials:Community Engagement
Finding Your Way: USAID Career Development Panel
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session
Instructor(s): Ana Bodipo-Memba, Sharmila Raj, Megan Fotheringham, Matt Sattah
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.
Materials:
Career Development Handout
How to bulid it so they will come: A health systems approach to post-conflict development
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): Yogesh Rajkotia
What does it mean to "transition" from relief to development in post-conflict countries? Does it make sense to focus on health systems strengthening where health systems barely exist? If so, what steps should we take to reconstruct a health system? In war-ravaged settings with abysmal health indicators, should we focus primarily on service delivery rather than systems? This discussion will take a critical look at these issues, and offer a framework for working in post-conflict settings. We will draw on examples from Southern Sudan, Afghanistan, and Liberia.
Materials:Health Systems in post conflict settings
If You Aren't Measuring It, You Aren't Doing It: Building the Evidence for Community Health Programs through Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS).
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Todd Nitkin, Jennifer Luna, Bill Weiss
You are managing a community-based health project in a large district with multiple communities. How do you know that you are succeeding? How do you know which parts of your project area and which interventions need more attention? Come learn about a simple and effective measurement methodology (LQAS) for collecting population-based information at the community level that answers these questions.
Materials:Lot Quality Assurance Sampling
It Can be Done: Increasing Age of Marriage in Ethiopia and Nepal
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Manisha Mehta, Wendy Baldwin
Nearly half of all girls in developing countries will marry as adolescents, even though child marriage endangers girls' health and curtails their life opportunities, negatively impacts development, and is a human rights violation. Early marriage is driven by multiple socioeconomic factors and is steeped in deep traditions, which many have argued would be too difficult to change through time-limited health interventions. Evidence from two innovative interventions carried out in Ethiopia and Nepal, demonstrates successful approaches to increase the age of marriage. Learn about these remarkable efforts and their impressive results.
Materials:Increasing Age of Marriage in Ethiopia and Nepal
Mud Pies and Maize Meal: The Health Impact of the Food Crisis
Location: To Be Determined
Session I
Instructor(s): Michael Zeilinger
So you've heard about the "food crisis" on the news, but how well do you really understand it? And what is its impact on global health? This session will present a macro-level analysis of the causes for the increase in price and provide national statistics on food insecurity and nutrition. We will discuss the health consequences of the increase in price of food and the challenges of mitigating these, as well as examine the international response (including USG).
Materials:Mud Pies and Maize Meal
Serving the Underserved: Key Policy Issues and Strategies in Poverty and Health Equity
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Suneeta Sharma, Karen Foreit
Despite the best of intentions, resources and program efforts often fail to reach those most in need. This session will provide an overview of poverty and equity issues pertaining to family planning, reproductive health, and maternal health, as well as explore the barriers the poor and other underserved groups face in accessing and using services. The session will also introduce strategies for addressing poverty and equity issues, such as putting pro-poor policies into practice, involving the poor in decisionmaking, and ensuring equitable allocation of resources. Finally, the session will present illustrative examples from the field that have successfully increased FP/RH access among the poor.
Materials:Serving the Underserved
The Urban Crucible: Has This Sunk in Yet???
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Vic Barbiero
This session will review the urban health imperative and challenge the audience to action on this relevant development issue. We will discuss the mega-agglomerates, doubling times and the inevitability of urbanization and the fact that the urban environment is indeed a “crucible” of forces that collide to give rise to new health challenges, impediments and potential solutions. This session will be interactive, drawing on the experience and opinion of the audience and presenter(s). The Haiku from 2007 sums up this session… “the world cities grow; we are numb to the message; feel them suffer now…”
Materials:The Urban Crucible
Too Hot to Handle: Analyses of the Effects of Climate Change on Human Health
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Janet Gamble
This presentation summarizes the findings in Final Report of the Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6 of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. After an initial overview on the linkages between climate change and human health, the moderators will lead a discussion on the implications of climate change in the developing country context. It will cover impacts discussed in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change such as waterborne illnesses, extreme weather patterns and how they drive the movement of vector borne illnesses such as malaria, and the potential aggravation of existing environmental health issues.
Materials:Climate Change and Human Health
Toys R Us: New Health Technologies for the Developing World
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Laura Birx
This session will explore innovations in the health sector by presenting and demonstrating new technologies in neonatal, maternal, reproductive, and child health, including infectious diseases. We will discuss the strategy behind the development of these new technologies, examine promising new tools that may change the health sector in the coming years, and demonstrate low-cost technologies currently in pilot phases.
Materials:Health Technologies
Why partner with the private sector for health? Global Development Alliance (GDAs) and beyond.
Location: To Be Determined
Session II
Instructor(s): Maggie Farrell, Adam Slote
Public private partnerships (PPPs) and Global Development Alliance (GDAs) seem to be all the rage these days. Come hear about how to explore and develop health PPPs and GDAs. We will discuss why it is important to partner with the private sector, health impact, leveraging funds and the challenges and opportunities that health partnerships with the private sector can provide. We will discuss ways to structure partnerships, exciting new models and examples of specific health partnerships.
Materials:Why Partner with the Private Sector
“ICT4D” Connecting the Public Health Needs of the Under-Served: An International Health Imperative
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Patricia Flanagan
Development activities in lesser developed countries (LDCs) on “the other side of the digital divide” are implemented in difficult environments and often under critical conditions. The provision of food, clean water and shelter is more immediate and necessary than ‘indulgent’ activities such as providing access to information and communication technologies (ICT). Building a network through which health care professionals can communicate with each other, track and utilize important patient data, attain diagnostic and medical data, enhance the provision of emergency services, and receive continuing education, proves the benefit of using ICT solutions as an enabler for better health care. This session will examine ICT applications for public health, looking at some global examples in e-health and telemedicine.
Materials:"ICT4D"
“So What? Do Gender-Integrated Population and Health Programs lead to Better Outcomes?”
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Karen Hardee, Elizabeth Rottach
A recent review of evaluated health interventions (in FP/RH, MH, HIV/AIDS, harmful practices, and with youth) that addressed gender provides evidence of the added benefit of a gendered approach to both health and gender-equity results. Researchers from PAI and AED will share these hot-off-the-press findings and their recommendations for future programming. The review was supported by the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) and is an update of the 2004 “So What? Report”.
Materials:Gender Integration
Family Planning and Maternal Health Integration
Long Acting and Permanent Methods of Contraception: What’s new, what’s hot and why some are not (but should be!) (0.1 CEU)
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): John Pile, Lynn Bakamjian
Long-acting and permanent methods LAPMs) of contraception have many advantages. Yet in much of the world access to these methods is limited and they remain a relatively small, and sometimes missing, component of many national reproductive health and family planning programs. Join us to learn what new products are here (or on the horizon) and what programs can do (and have DONE) to improve access to LAPM services.
Materials:Long Acting Permanent Methods
Not as easy as it sounds: Integrating maternal, newborn, and child health and family planning
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Catharine McKaig, Ian Askew
While integration is the obvious programming approach, we continue to bemoan missed opportunities. No more moaning! This session will present a framework for MNCH and FP integration, review common misconceptions, and illustrate integration approaches based on learnings from field experience in community and facility based programs. Integated postnatal care and childhood immunzation will be discussed and tools for integration will be presented.
Materials:Integrating MNCH and FP
Post-Partum Family Planning: What to Expect when you're no longer Expecting (0.1 CEU)
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Catharine McKaig, Holly Blanchard
Want to reduce maternal mortality, child mortality and prevent HIV infection? Come learn about postpartum family planning. We will cover the basics plus some new areas such as: pre-discharge/early postpartum family planning, Acceptable Feasible A affordable Safe Sustainable (AFASS) and Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) for HIV positive women, and postpartum IUDs as well as counseling and messages for postpartum family planning. Examples will be illustrated with diverse field experience in Kenya, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Albania and Afghanistan as well as recent literature.
Materials:Post-Partum Family Planning
Pregnancy Spacing and Newborn and Maternal Health: Using New Findings to Achieve Healthy Pregnancy Outcomes (0.1 CEU)
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Maureen Norton
Family planning programs have an important role to play in helping women achieve healthy pregnancy outcomes. New evidence reveals short and long birth intervals' association with a range of adverse perinatal and maternal outcomes that contribute to high mortality in developing countries. This session will: present new evidence from USAID-sponsored studies, including a systematic literature review and meta-analysis, on pregnancy spacing and perinatal, neonatal and maternal health outcomes; include a discussion of operations research findings on new approaches used to educate families and communities on the risks of short and long pregnancy intervals, and identify the countries using these approaches and update participants on the 2006 WHO policy brief recommendations on pregnancy spacing.
Materials:Pregnancy Spacing and Newborn and Maternal Health
Revitalizing Family Planning in Post-abortion Care (0.1 CEU)
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Carolyn Curtis
Postabortion care is one intervention to address maternal mortality. To date, most of the attention in postabortion care has been on the first component of the model – emergency treatment. Less attention has been provided to the importance of family planning, the second component of the PAC model in addressing the problem of unmet need and the reduction of repeat abortion. This session will address the importance of the second component of the PAC model and provide strong research evidence to do programming that will ensure that women receiving emergency treatment also receive FP counseling and a FP method of their choice as desired prior to discharge from the facility.
Materials:Revitalizing Family Planning in PAC
Family Planning and Reproductive Health
Commodity Security in an Era of Changing Donor Support
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Alan Bornbusch, Paul Downing, Nadia Olsen, Christine Ortiz
The architecture of donor assistance in global health is changing rapidly, with donor funds increasingly being routed through basket funds or direct budgetary support. This change presents challenges to ensuring "commodity security" (the ability of clients to obtain and use essential health commodities when and where they need them), because fewer donor funds are earmarked to ensure the timely procurement and distribution of health commodities. This session will discuss those challenges, how they can be alleviated, and the role of USAID's increasingly unique form of donor assistance in assuring continued health commodity security - drawing largely from USAID’s experience in contraceptive security.
Materials:Commodity Security
Exciting, improvements to existing contraceptive options – Sino-implant (II) and Depo-subQ (0.1 CEU)
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Jeff Spieler, David Asante
There are two great opportunities to expand the use of very two very popular contraceptive methods: implants and injectables. In this session, participants will hear about plans for the introduction of a very low cost, highly effective contraceptive implant, Sino-implant (II); this product could revolutionize the use of implants in low resources setting. The second is Depo-SubQ in Uniject, which will make the delivery of injectable contraceptive much simpler, especially for community-based services. It will also greatly expand the use of injectables where lower level health care providers are not authorized to give IM injections. There is also great potential for home injection.
Materials:Sino-implant and Depo subQ
Family Planning: The Elevator Speech
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session (This session is closed)
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:Family Planning: The Elevator Speech
New Recommendations for Family Planning/HIV Integration
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Virgina Lamprecht, Susan Adamchak
How HIV/AIDS and family planning programs and services and are configured and integrated in developing countries depends upon many factors, including funding for programs and integration, the number and capacity of providers, national policies, cultural norms and practices and even physical space constraints and limitations. This session will review the basics of FP HIV integration, including what mix of interventions have demonstrated to meet the needs of clients more that services offered as vertical programs and recommendations for integraion at the field level. The most current data—just out this summer—will be presented.
Materials:New Recommendations for FP HIV Integration
Putting the friendly in Youth-friendly services
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Nancy Williamson, Gwyn Hainsworth
What are the best ways to reach young people with RH and HIV services? How can programs increase contraceptive uptake among 15-24 year olds? How can clinics best refer and/ or offer voluntary counseling and testing services (VCT) to youth? The past 15 years have seen an increasing recognition of the need to make health services more responsive to the specific needs of young people. Many models have been implemented to make services more "youth-friendly", but what does the evidence show in terms of the most effective models and approaches? This presentation will present some of the key issues related to research and programming in youth reproductive health and VCT services.
Materials:Youth Friendly Services
The Buzz around "Bottom of the Pyramid": What does it mean for Family Planning
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Francoise Armand, Ruth Berg, Denise Averbug
This session will review the origin of the "Bottom of the Pyramid" approach, global experiences and what it can achieve for family planning. PSP-One will share its experiences adapting the BOP approach to its family planning programs in 3 countries ( India, Ghana and Nigeria), challenges faced in facilitating corporate investments to go the last mile and lessons learned for future applications.
Materials:Buzz Around the Bottom of the Pyramid
When Opportunity Comes Knocking at Your Door: Expanding Family Planning Access with Community-based Provision of Depo Provera in Africa
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): John Stanback, Victoria Graham
Community-based distribution (CBD) of Depo-Provera is emerging as a State-of-the-Art model designed to serve clients in the communities in which they live. In many countries, injectables are emerging as the most popular FP methods among women and are poised to revitalize FP. During this energetic presentation participants will learn about and discuss the issues related to the CBD of Depo Provera model and its potential to increase CPR, recent growth in African countries, challenges and concerns to government policy change, key safety, feasibility, and continuation research, a Malawi case study, and areas that still need research.
Materials:When Opportunity Comes Knocking at Your Door
Health Systems
Am I being treated fairly? Managing Health Workers for Health Sector Results
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Lois Schaefer, Estelle Quain, Ummuro Adano
Maybe you’ve considered that question lately while on the job; this is just one of the 5 questions that health care workers commonly ask themselves. How they answer the 5 questions – which is determined by how they are managed and supported by human resource management (HRM) systems – is central to the quality of health services that they are able to deliver and whether or not they choose to stay or leave. This session will explore the 5 questions and the components of HRM needed to address them as well as strategies and actions that can be supported in low resource settings to ensure basic HR governance and management measures are in place.
Materials:Managing Health Workers for Health Sector Results
Dodging the silver bullet: preconditions to implementing 'innovations' in health finance
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Yogesh Rajkotia
Pay-for-performance and social health insurance have been touted as the next big innovations in health financing. Proponents offer overwhelmingly supportive evidence from several countries, concluding that our "old approaches are not working". Global mechanisms are pouring millions of dollars into helping countries establish these new innovations. Are developing countries ready to implement these health financing interventions? Are there preconditions that must be met first? Are we paving the way for stronger health systems or admidst yet another global health fad? This discussion will take a critical look at these questions, drawing on examples from Rwanda, Ghana, Afghanistan, and other countries.
Governance is Us: People, Participation, and Health Systems
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Derick Brinkerhoff
Don’t we know everything there is to know about participation in health yet? Come to this session and find the answer. Looking at participation from a governance perspective leads us to look beyond village health committees and other familiar participatory health practices. Discover how applying a governance lens to examining participation leads to new insights on improving health systems, increasing service delivery performance, and achieving health outcomes.
Materials:Governance is Us
Health systems assessment approach - taking the temp of the health system
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Catherine Connor, Amy Taye
The health system assessment presentation will be an interactive workshop to familiarize the audience on how to carry out a rapid and yet comprehensive assessment. The presentation will focus on key health system functions using the "Health Systems Assessment Approach: A How-To Manual". The approach was recently developed by USAID as part of its global Mainstreaming Health Systems Strengthening Initiative.The workshop will teach how to assess the functions along a set of indicators and distill findings of system strengths and weaknesses. As well as how to synthesize conclusions across functions, and develop recommendations for intervention and action.
Materials:Health System Assessment Approach
Leadership, mangement and development
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Tim Allen, Kristin Cooney
It is essential to have strong managers and leaders at all levels in the health system in order to improve the lives of the communities they serve. Many proven practices in leadership and change management are documented and available, yet these are rarely systematically applied to scaling up best reproductive and other health challenges. This session will highlight key elements and principles of leadership and management, and will discuss resources, such as the Fostering Change Guide, that encourage local leaders to be the source of creativity and inspiration and to choose, own and sustain health improvements.
Materials:Leadership Management and Development
Paying Health Workers to do their Work - What a Concept! - Performance-based Financing
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Rena Eichler, Ruth Levine
The use of performance-based incentives -- providing financial or other material incentives to alter the behavior of health care providers or patients-- holds significant potential to achieve better health outcomes while strengthening health systems in the process. Supply-side performance-based incentives have demonstrably increased key public health outputs, including childhood immunization, skilled birth at tendance and others. Attention to key design features and careful implementation are required to maximize the potential, and reduce the chances of unwanted distortions and other pitfalls.
Materials:Performance Based Financing
The Cutting Edge: Improvement collaboratives in developing countries are evolving so rapidly that you probably need an update
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Rashad Massoud
This session will outline how a collaborative organizes quality improvement teams from a large number of facilities to work together on a single topic. Drawing on experience in over 20 developing countries, we will illustrate how collaborative teams make measurable, often dramatic, improvements in health care and how these improvements have been scaled up using the framework of the collaborative. We will illustrate the wide range of services and health systems where this approach has proven effective, ranging from newborn care in Niger to antiretroviral therapy at a national scale in Uganda. We will also present new applications in HIV/AIDS , including programs for orphans and vulnerable children and application of the chronic care model.
Materials:Improvement Collaboratives Presentation 
Improvement Collaboratives List Improvement Collaboratives Handout
The pillbox: Where does pharmaceutical management fit into the health system?
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Tina Brock, Maria Miralles
One can easily feel overwhelmed by the array of issues that may need to be addressed to improve the performance of a health system.. However, it is very clear that health systems will run into difficulty if they do not address how to manage the supply and use of medicines essential to improving health and saving lives. Pharmaceuticals can be expensive to purchase and distribute, and shortage, improper use, and spending on unnecessary or low-quality drugs have a high cost, namely wasted resources and preventable illness and death. Come learn how pharmaceutical management fits into the larger health system!
Materials:The Pill Box Presentation The Pill Box Handout
HIV/AIDS
AIDS Prevention. Defining the Problem. Defining the Solution
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): David Stanton
This session will review new findings from the last year in both the biomedical and behavioral HIV prevention fields, and will explore how explanatory models for the epidemic spread of HIV are influencing the strategies being promoted.
Materials:AIDS Prevention
Beyond the PMTCT cascade to Full Comprehensive Coverage and Happy and Health Mothers and Families
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Sara Bowsky, Maggie Brewinski
This session will review successes and challenges of Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission (PMTCT) from its inception to current practice and the current status of pediatric HIV and AIDS care and treatment. It will outline effective models for rapidly scaling up high quality and comprehensive PMTCT and pediatric HIV and AIDS service. This will include effective models for the integration of PMTCT and Pediatric HIV and maternal newborn and child health, new clinical practices, infant and young child feeding, family centered care and psychological and social factors affecting scale up of services.
HIV & Nutrition: A Framework for Addressing Patient & Family Needs
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Tim Quick
Food is often stated as the most urgent need of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their families, but also for their neighbors, reflecting the common overlap between areas of high HIV prevalence and chronic food insecurity. The nutritional status of many, but not all PLHIV improves with ART and treatment of opportunistic infections (e.g. TB). Thus, there is need to provide nutritional support as a component of comprehensive clinical care and treatment of PLHIV, while also linking those patients with food security and livelihood assistance for their vulnerable families. This session will lay out a basic framework for USG food and nutrition support in the context of PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and Title II programs.
Materials:HIV and Nutrition
HIV and Development – A Question of Balance
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Vic Barbiero
William James said: “He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.” This session takes on the 600-pound HIV/AIDS-TB-Malaria gorilla. We will explore the technical and fiscal implications of the reauthorization of the Lantos-Hyde Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria Bill, and options for a broader use of the proposed $50 billion, five-year funding platform. No holds barred, no punches held…roll up your sleeves for a critical look at global health programming and the dangerous inequity of present resource allocation trajectories. This session aims to spark hope and illumination, argument and anger, and, help us to rethink our “sensational” approach to global health. Please come ready to rumble… Remember: “managers do things right, but Leaders Do The Right Thing!!”
Materials:HIV/AIDS and Development
HIV/AIDS Treatment- Adult & Pediatric Similarities and Differences (0.1 CEU)
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Stephen Lee
This session will explore both adult and pediatric antiretroviral treatment in resource poor settings. As the world strives for universal coverage, it is important to understand the challenges faced by both children and adults who depend on theses medicines everyday. We will discuss the basic concept of multi-drug regimens and how they differ between adults and children. We will also examine the complexity of delivering and maintaining antiretroviral treatment around the globe.
Materials:HIV Treatment: Similarities and Differences
Is Male Circumcision as Good as an HIV Vaccine?
Location: To Be Determined
Session III
Instructor(s): Harshad Sanghvi, Kelly Curran
Come find out if there is a medical reason for performing Male Circumcision (MC). Become familiar with the global (WHO and UNAIDS) guidance on MC for HIV prevention. Learn about the challenges of introducing and scaling up a surgical procedure for HIV prevention. Engage in conversations about disinhibition/risk compensation, changing cultural norms and the role of women and gender issues in MC programs. Discuss the human resource implications of MC scale-up. Leave energized to advocate for male circumcision for HIV prevention.
Materials:Male Circumcision
Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children - the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and what it means for children in developing countries.
Location: To Be Determined
Session II
Instructor(s): Gretchen Bachman, Mychelle Farmer
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 to protect and care for them, mobilizing and supporting community-based responses, ensuring OVCs access to essential services, ensuring government protection through improved policy, raising awareness, and helping OVCs acquire the skills and knowledge. This session will also address how one partner, Save the Children, has worked with communities and governments to support these children in Sub Saharan Africa.
Materials:OVC and PEPFAR
Out with the Old, In with the New: PEPFAR II
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session
Instructor(s): Michele Moloney-Kitts
This session will discuss the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and its recent reauthorization. The new legistlation will increase financial commitment to this fight as well as the fight against tuberculosis and malaria. This session will take a look at the differences between PEPFAR I and PEPFAR II and what it means for the developing world.
Scaling Up HIV Testing and Counseling in Africa: Successes, Challenges, and the Way Forward
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Allison Schilsky
There has been significant progress in the provision of HIV testing and counseling (HTC) services in sub-Saharan Africa over the past several years. This presentation will provide an overview of different types of HTC models, and the successes and challenges of various HTC policies and programs. We will also discuss the most recent hot topics in HTC, such as providing HTC services for couples and children and the push to better identify persons acutely infected with HIV.
Materials:Scaling up HIV Testing
Taking HIV care and support into the homes: the challenges of scaling up community and home-based care (HBC) HIV care programs in low resource settings
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV
Instructor(s): John Palen
The presentation will focus on national and international policy and programmatic issues related to the delivery of a range of HIV care and support services by competent and qualified HBC providers in three PEPFAR funded countries. Countries face many challenges in providing access to HIV-infected persons, as a result they are developing and implementing HBC programs in order to expand services outside of facilities and into communities. This expansion, however, requires the development of specific policies related to standards of care, provider requirements, and linkages/coordination with facilities as well as the provision of commodities and support services. Both policies and program activities need to be developed and/or examined to assure sufficient support of HBC programs within the existing context of the health care environment.
Materials:Taking HIV Care and Support into the Homes
We’re not just targets, we are the change.’ Engaging at-risk populations in the HIV/AIDS response
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Ozzi Warwick, Angela Davis
This session will explore the importance of understanding context and issues of identity in shaping and framing interventions targeting MARPs. It will also present learning's from the USAID-funded Eastern Caribbean Community Action Project (EC-CAP), which is effectively engaging most-at-risk populations (MARPs) to increase their access to prevention and essential health and social services.
Materials:Engaging at-risk populations in HIV/AIDS response
Infectious Diseases
Is XDR-TB enough to wake you up to the looming dangers of antimicrobial resistance?
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Mohan Joshi, Andrei Zagorskiy
Imagine a scenario in which all major infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, become untreatable because the available medicines no longer work. How long, you think, will it take before we actually face this scenario, given the speed with which antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is developing and spreading? The emergence of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a particular instructive example in this regard. Come and discuss with us the AMR challenge, and what the global community can and should do to respond. At the end of the session, you will also receive an AMR resource CD that contains useful documents and tools, including the WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance.
Materials:XDR-TB
Malaria: what's old, what's new.
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Michael MacDonald
One hundred and eleven years since the mosquito was confirmed as the culprit, and one hundred since the first infectious disease modeling, recent successes offer hope that we are entering a new, and some think final, era in the struggles against malaria. Some tools are old: DDT, mosquito nets and a drug based on ancient Chinese herbals; but the methods are new: coalitions of pubic, private and commercial sector partners enabling myriad opportunities to get involved and play a part in rolling back this ancient and multi-faceted disease.
Materials:Malaria Presentation Malaria Multiple Choice
TB 101: A breath of fresh air on an old topic
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Carolyn Mohan
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
Materials:TB 101
The ABCs of NTDs (Neglected Tropical Diseases)
Location: To Be Determined
Brown Bag Session (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Angela Weaver, Dieudonne Sankara
More than one billion people, mostly in the developing world, suffer from one or more neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Seven of the most prevalent NTDs can be controlled through targeted mass drug administration (MDA). Recent research into the co-management of the diseases has yielded an integrated approach that is safe for communities, more efficient for governments to manage, and enables scale up of preventive chemotherapy for these seven NTDs. This session will cover the basics of these NTDs: what they are, where they are found, and efforts to control them through integration of existing disease-specific treatment programs.
Materials:The ABC's of NTDs
What Would You Do About Bird Flu?
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Andrew Clements
Highly-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus is fast-moving and continues to evolve and infect poultry, waterfowl, wild birds, and people in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. As a result, HPAI prevention and control efforts need to be flexible, targeted, and multi-sectoral in order to minimize negative public health impact, particularly in developing countries. This reality requires a strategic approach for HPAI that is different from those used to address many other international health issues. In this presentation, you will be provided with key information related to HPAI and then challenged to devise a strategy that makes the best use of available funding and partners.
Materials:What Would You Do About Bird Flu?
Knowledge Extravaganza
Knowledge Extravaganza (0.1 CEU)
Location: To Be Determined
Knowledge Extravaganza (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Jim Shelton
Come test your knowledge of the things you learned at this years Mini-U!! An overarching session that reviews the most important "pearls" from each session. Prizes will be awarded to the most creative presenters.
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Dangerous hours, dangerous days: Addressing newborn mortality when and where it happens
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Leslie Elder
Nearly four million newborn children die each year. The majority of this staggering number of these often invisible deaths occurs during the most risky period in any human life: At birth, in the first 24 hours, and in the first week of life. This session will ask and answer several key questions about these small lost lives. When, where, and why do newborns die? And what can be done to prevent these deaths? If the global community is serious about achieving the Millennium Development Goal to reduce child mortality, it is imperative that we understand and take action to address the causes of newborn deaths.
Immunization: an entry “point” for improving health
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Rebecca Fields
Immunization is a public health “best buy”, preventing more than 2 million childhood deaths each year. But many people remain unprotected at a time when the potential of vaccines to prevent disease and more than a million additional deaths – both in children and other age groups – is greater than ever. This session will provide an overview of the basics of immunization in developing countries and the opportunities that the GAVI Alliance provides to both introduce new vaccines and strengthen the health systems. As the second largest bilateral contributor to the GAVI Alliance, the U.S. government and PVOs are in a position to help shape the global immunization agenda and implement it in the field.
Materials:Immunization
It's not just about children anymore: innovations in maternal and child health (MCH) programming
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): John Borrazzo
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. In 2007, UNICEF announced that the estimated number of under-5 child deaths was below 10 million. Nevertheless, 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.
Materials:Innovations in MCH Programming
Lives saved: advances in community care of young children and newborns
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Neal Brandes, Steve Wall
Despite advances in programs infection remains a major source of mortality in children under 5. This session will present the burden of disease and recommendations on community-based approaches to management non-severe pneumonia at community level. The presenters will review recent and ongoing research on community-based management of severe pneumonia in young children as well as prevention and management of sepsis in newborns.
Materials:Severe Pneumonia
Misoprostol for Safe Motherhood: the little pill with big potential to save women’s lives (0.1 CEU)
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Rasha Dabash, Beverly Winikoff
Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) and unsafe abortion are two of the leading causes of maternal deaths worldwide. Misoprostol is a widely available, easy to store and simple to use prostaglandin pill commonly used for reproductive health indications. Data suggest that misoprostol may well be the simple and low cost technology that women’s health advocates have been calling for to help save women’s lives, particularly given its potential uses in low resource settings and by non-physician providers. A summary of evidence on misoprostol’s effectiveness for will lead way to recommendations and discussions about the programmatic implications of integrating this highly promising treatment option into existing health services.
Materials:Misoprostol for Safe Motherhood
Mother’s New Little Helper: Improving Young Child Feeding Practices with Micronutrient Powders
Location: To Be Determined
Session III (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Emily Wainwright
Micronutrient powders, also known as Sprinkles, are an innovative approach to tackling problems of malnutrition in children. Programs featuring Sprinkles are rapidly expanding in Africa and Asia—but can Sprinkles really be the next silver bullet for public health? This session will describe the research and development of multiple micronutrient powders, the impact these powders have on feeding practices and nutrition status of children, and the programmatic success and challenges that arise.
Navigating New Products and Infant Feeding Guidance to Reduce Malnutrition in Young Children
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Alison Gardner
Confused about what works to prevent and reduce malnutrition in young children? Hear the latest on ways to reduce malnutrition in children using products such as fortified powders and lipid-based spreads. Hear the latest approaches to infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in the context of HIV and what using the new Child Growth Standards will mean to prevalence of malnutrition in the world.
Materials:Navigating New Products and Infant Feeding
Solving maternal mortality: bridging the gap between knowing the right thing to do and doing it right
Location: To Be Determined
Session II (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Patricia Gomez, Natalie Hendler
In this overview of maternal health participants will learn how the stagnating/rising maternal mortality ratios in many countries can be reduced. Illustrative high-impact interventions will be described, along with programmatic best practices to ensure their implementation and scale up. Challenges in monitoring and evaluation of programs will be presented and discussed.
Materials:Maternal Mortality
The Next Generation of Vitamin A Programming: New Problems – New Applications
Location: To Be Determined
Session IV (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Emily Wainwright
In 1999 only 16% of children were fully protected with vitamin A. A global goal of reaching >80% of children was set. Are we close? The global context for VAS has dramatically changed in 10 years along with delivery strategies, decentralization, and health priorities. This session will provide a global overview of what has been achieved, how strategies for reducing deficiencies and increasing coverage have and continue to evolve. Lastly pending new interventions regarding vitamin A in newborn care will be presented.
Turning Beneficiaries into Consumers: Sanitation Marketing in the Age of the Water for the Poor Act
Location: To Be Determined
Session I (This session is closed)
Instructor(s): Scott Tobias, Julia Rosenbaum
Why 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 properly use of simple, affordable sanitation technologies can practically eliminate their risk of contracting diarrhea. This upbeat and interactive presentation will look at some country examples of stimulating demand for sanitation products... and what it takes to interest the private sector to meet that demand in the sanitation marketplace.
Materials:Beneficiaries into Consumers
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