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Moderated sessions in which three to four presenters have approximately 15 minutes each to present, followed by a question-and-answer period. There are multiple sessions taking place concurrently in each session period.
These sessions will take place on: May 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31.
Sessions by Day:
Tuesday pm Wednesday am | pm Thursday am | pm Friday am | pm Saturday am
Sessions by Series:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H
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| Tuesday, May 27, 2008: 3-5 pm |
| A1: | Making It Sustainable: Models of Long-Term Investment in Community Health
Presenters Discuss: Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), three innovative practices of CRHP, how CRHP maintains relevance, and three policies/programs influenced by CRHP (India); the features of a community based primary health care program, the elements of effective interventions, the maturation of relationships between communities and organizations over time, and the uses of data for evidence based practice (Haiti); basic health needs available for the poor and rural population and the best innovative approaches to providing such facilities to them (India); and how church based institutions established community owned/sustained primary care lasting 25 years, a community's assessment of why this program succeeded, interplay between the competing political forces in the community, and the programmatic dynamics/balance between lay volunteers and salaried support staff (Chad).
Moderator:
Sarah Shannon, Hesperian Foundation
Presenters:
Raj S. Arole, MBBS, MPH
Bette Gebrian, PhD | presentation
Rayapu Ramesh Babu, Sr., DrPH | presentation
David Marlin Thompson, MD, MPH | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| A2: | Getting Creative: Innovative Models of Health Care Financing
Presenters Discuss: How the revenue retention and utilization component of Ethiopia’s health care financing (HCF) reform has contributed to increasing absolute resources for health and improving the quality of primary health care (Ethiopia); the social franchise approach for the sustainable delivery of maternal and child health services (India); how subsidized and targeted ‘vouchers for health’ can achieve the goal of improving the health of poor women and children in developing countries, program elements that improve access to high quality reproductive health care services, how targeted voucher subsidies help to meet the goal of contributing to the development of a national social health insurance system that is “accessible, affordable and acceptable” to the general population (Kenya); and the contribution of Special Pharmacies (SPs) towards increasing availability of essential drugs at the community level, stabilizing drug prices, and improving the quality of health services (Ethiopia).
Moderator:
Neeraj Kak, PhD, University Research Co., LLC
Presenters:
Leulseged Ageze, MSc. | presentation
Bishan Swarup Garg, MD | presentation
Claus P. Janisch, MD | presentation
Workie Mitiku, M.Sc | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| A3: | Battle Zone: Reproductive Health of Challenged Populations in Conflict and Refugee Settings
Presenters Discuss: The role of mobile, community-managed Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in providing reproductive health services, collecting vital maternal and neonatal health information, and strengthening internally displaced communities in eastern Burma conflict-zones (Burma); the benefits for sustainability and scale-up potential of full collaboration between community interventions and the Ministry of Health (East Timor); the association between displacement and current use of non-permanent efficacious contraception among women of reproductive age (WRA) (Colombia); and the dominant cultural and religious beliefs held by Somali refugees that underlie their attitudes and behaviors related to Reproductive Health (RH), Family Planning (FP), and Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and how some of these attitudes might be amenable to interventions focused on improving health-seeking behaviors (Somali and Sudanese Refugees).
Moderator:
Susan Purdin, RN, MPH, Senior Technical Advisor, Reproductive Health, International Rescue Committee
Presenters:
Katherine C. Teela, MHS | presentation
Susan M. Thompson, MPH | presentation
Kerry A. Thomson, MPH | presentation
Carla Schnell White, PhD | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| A4: | Starting with the Basics: Interventions for Diarrhea Management
Presenters Discuss: A successful public-private partnership model for scaling-up appropriate treatment of diarrhea among children (Nepal); the range of child health providers in developing country settings, the role of community health providers (CHP) in child health, the quality of child survival services provided by CHP and practical interventions to improve such quality (Uganda, Bangladesh); the effectiveness of an innovative street theatre program that was used to improve community knowledge about ORT and crucial steps in home diarrhea management (India); and AED’s community-based partnerships to change rural health provider (RMP) behavior (India).
Moderator:
Mathuram Santosham, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health
Presenters:
Y.V. Pradhan, MD | presentation
Camille Saadé | presentation
Youssef Tawfik | presentation
Sanjeev Vyas, MBA | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| Wednesday, May 28, 2008: 9:45-11:45 am |
| B1: | The Effectiveness of Community-Based Primary Health Care in Improving Child Health
Presenters Discuss: The main findings of a systematic review of the effectiveness of community-based approaches in improving child health (global); the significance of the systematic review for major international health organizations and their work in guiding the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in health (global); and the methodologies used in a systematic review of the published and unpublished literature examining the available evidence concerning the effectiveness of community-based primary health care (CBPHC) in improving child health (global).
Moderator:
Carl E. Taylor, MD, DrPH, MPH, Johns Hopkins University
Presenters:
Paul Anthony Freeman, DrPH, MBBS, MHP(Ed) | presentation
Rudolph Knippenberg, MD | presentation
Henry B. Perry, III, MD, PhD, MPH | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| B2: | Where Communities Meet Family Planning: New Approaches to Community-Based Programs
Presenters Discuss: The role of community-based distributors in increasing access to injectable contraceptives for rural women (Uganda); innovative community based approaches to increase contraceptive use among marginalized communities (Nepal); the importance of good governance and civil society strengthening in community-based family planning (FP) interventions (Madagascar); and the relevance of holistic community involvement in successful Family Planning (FP) interventions and the existence of opportunities in unconventional sectors of the community (Nigeria).
Moderator:
Janet Lynne Meyers, MPH, ORC Macro
Presenters:
Sada Danmusa | presentation
Neena Khadka, MB,BS, DCH, MA | presentation
Jennifer Lee Loucks, MPH | presentation
John Stanback, PhD | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| B3: | Focus on Women: Cancer Screening, Reproductive Health, and Family Planning
Presenters Discuss: How an NGO’s partnership with local coffee cooperatives addresses social, physical and technical barriers to care, resulting in a sustainable and appropriate model for providing accessible healthcare (Mexico, Nicaragua); the necessity of screening programs for accurate reporting on the magnitude and burden of cervical cancer in many developing countries (Uganda); the Holistic Women’s National Outreach Program, which aims to increase the modern method contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) and reduce total fertility rate (TFR), achieve contraceptive security through the contribution of the private sector, expand and sustain quality assurance of private providers, private sector provider networks, community outreach, the number and variety of modern methods, and establish a system for breast cancer screening (Jordan); and how a community-based program can improve cancer education and screening (India).
Moderator:
Beth Fredrick, International Women's Health Coalition
Presenters:
August Burns, MPH, PA, CM | presentation
Rita L. Leavell, MD, MBA | presentation
Emmanuel Mugisha, PhD | presentation
Anjali Talele Sibley, MD | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| B4: | Community Nutrition Programs: Fuel for a Successful Future
Presenters Discuss: The meaning of responsive feeding and the factors that make the responsive feeding approach successful in addressing malnutrition for children ages 12 to 24 months (Bangladesh); the value of partnering community engagement with effective interventions to ensure a positive impact on the nutrition and health of women and children (Malawi); five preparatory steps in program development that enable individualized feeding counseling through community-based nutrition interventions and reasons why universal enrollment and high participation are essential for translating individualized caregiver support into community-wide impact (Honduras); and key issues related to planning and implementing a community-led school feeding program and the impact of school feeding programs on school enrollment and attendance as well as food security (rural sub-Saharan Africa).
Moderator:
Neal Brandes, MS, U.S. Agency for International Development
Presenters:
Sadika Akhter, BA | presentation
Rose H. Namarika, SRN, SNM, MPH | presentation
Thomas Schaetzel, PhD | presentation
David Siriri, PhD | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| B5: | On the Ground: Community Partnerships for Malaria Prevention and Control
Presenters Discuss: A community-based LLIN distribution model to see how it has led to increased health impact and economic empowerment, and to gather lessons learned for replication elsewhere (Madagascar); how to design and implement a major malaria control intervention at the community level, and the role of community volunteers as vital partners (Ghana); global health promotion strategies that can be adopted to help organizations and communities formulate and enhance integrated projects which reduce duplication of services and waste of resources (Kenya).
Moderator:
Matthew Lynch, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Communication Programs
Presenters:
Douglas F. Call | presentation
Stephen Dzisi | presentation
Prince Owusu, BSc | presentation
Mercy Khitieyi Tero, MA | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| B6: | Ending Violence against Women: Innovative and Inspiring Community-Based Approaches
Presenters Discuss: Kivulini Women’s Rights Organization’s innovative community-based approach for preventing domestic violence and how local officials can be engaged to lead community efforts for the prevention and response of violence against women (Tanzania); the SASA! approach, its implementation in six communities and how through a randomized control trial and monitoring and evaluation methodologies, researchers and activists are seeking to learn if and how SASA! can change fundamental social norms perpetuating women’s vulnerability to violence and HIV/AIDS (Uganda); the “In Her Shoes” methodology as a powerful tool for helping service providers and others to reflect on the importance of support networks in empowering women to leave abusive situations (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama); and the successes and challenges of the only specialized gender violence recovery center (East Africa).
Moderator:
Mary C. Ellsberg, PhD, PATH
Presenters:
Yassin Ally, BA | presentation
Lori Michau, MA | presentation
Margarita Quintanilla, MD
Lucy Wanjiku Kiama, MA | presentation
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| B7: | Community Feedback on Emerging Techniques for HIV Prevention
Presenters Discuss: The process of convening groups representing sex workers and women living with HIV and engaging in dialogue with them, the specific concerns expressed by the stakeholders about microbicides development and access, and the ongoing process of addressing their concerns in global microbicides efforts (global); the current status of microbicide research and the potential role and limitations that a new prevention tool could play in expanding women's HIV protection strategies (global); and community concerns about microbicides, and recommendations for the process of a successful introduction rollout program (Zimbabwe, Malawi).
Moderator:
Jill Gay, MA
Presenters:
Lori Heise | presentation
Serra Sippel, MA | presentation
Cynthia K. Woodsong, PhD | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| Wednesday, May 28, 2008: 1:45-3:45 pm |
| C1: | Neighbor Helping Neighbor: Community-Owned Approaches
Presenters Discuss: New and innovative approaches to working with the most at risk PLHIV families and Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC) (Cambodia); and why the struggle against HIV/AIDS must be community-driven, and how a systematic and comprehensive response, building on individuals themselves, is extremely effective in turning the tide against HIV/AIDS (Africa, India, China).
Moderator:
Sara Friedman, Global AIDS Program Information Officer, Global Health Council
Presenters:
Sam Eng, MD, MPH | presentation
Marie Lichtenberg | presentation
Zelna Oosthuizen | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| C2: | Ability and Influence: Religious Leadership Promoting Reproductive Health
Presenters Discuss: How partnering with religious leaders facilitates behavior change, and methods used by religious leaders to impart Maternal and Child Health (MCH), Family Planning (FP), and Reproductive Health (RH) messages (Egypt); three successful community-based approaches to increasing access to and use of the Standard Days Method (SDM) through faith-based organizations (Benin, Burkina Faso); and two successful approaches to engage religious leaders in increasing community interest in using Intra-Uterine Devices (Guinea).
Moderator:
Sarla Chand, PhD, Faith-Based Coordinator, ACCESS Program
Presenters:
Bernard Kateta Balibuno, MPA | presentation
Shahira Hussein, MD | presentation
Winifride Mwebesa, MD | presentation
Discussant:
Reverend Joan Brown Campbell, Chautauqua Institution
Presenters' abstracts
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| C3: | Rebuilding Afghanistan: Opportunities for Systems Development in Post-Conflict Settings
Presenters Discuss: Utilization and quality of community-based health services, delivered in the Basic Package of Health Services, when cost of service delivery varies from one geographic area to another and a set of guidelines to determine optimum level(s) of cost for delivering the Basic Package of Health Services (Afghanistan); building the capacity to address AIDS, TB and malaria, monitoring and evaluation and health impact of improving water (Afghanistan); public health-based decision framework for developing a basic package of services that address the priority health problems of a post-conflict country (Afghanistan); and improving maternal and child health in Afghanistan, community-directed intervention, a focus on women and children, empowering women and strengthening health systems through training of nurses and birth attendants, as well as expanding health education (Afghanistan).
Moderator:
Ronald Waldman, MD, MPH
Presenters:
Omid Ameli, MD | presentation
William C. Newbrander, PhD | presentation
Laura Steinhardt, MPH | presentation
Sakena Yacoobi
Presenters' abstracts
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| C4: | Fueling the Future: Child Nutrition and Food Security
Presenters Discuss: The value of a sentinel system for community nutritional surveillance and the need for food and nutrition security and health interventions to combat chronic malnutrition (Guatemala); the need for related food security, nutrition and health interventions to combat chronic malnutrition in developing countries (Guatemala); how communities, private organizations, and individuals can support School Health and Nutrition (SHN) resulting in higher enrolment, retention, completion, and achievement (Nigeria); and the key factors enabling the Mercy Corps Sumatra Healthy Schools Program to successfully motivate local district government in Indonesia to replicate key program interventions using their own financial, logistic and administrative resources thus ensuring the sustainability of the program (Indonesia).
Moderator:
Paul J. Crystal, Basics II Project
Presenters:
Nafisa Ado | presentation
Hernán L. Delgado, MD | presentation
Elena Hurtado, MPH | presentation
David W. Patterson | presentation
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| C5: | Moving Mountains: Transforming Communities to Stop Malaria
Presenters Discuss: Benefits of GIS mapping in scale-up of IRS programs, and planning and identification of needs at district and community levels (Zambia); Zambia’s approach to malaria control, progress toward stopping malaria, and essential community activities (Zambia); three approaches used in Zambia to mass-distribute insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), the benefits of a decentralized distribution approach, and the critical role communities played in optimizing the system. (Zambia); and the potential for community caregivers to take a larger role in long-lasting insecticide treated net (LLIN) distribution, the RAPIDS distribution model, and how it is applied to malaria (Zambia).
Moderator:
Scott Jackson, Vice President - External Relations, PATH
Presenters:
Brian Chirwa | presentation
Elizabeth Chizema | presentation
Abdirahman Mohamed, MD | presentation
Bruce Wilkinson | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| C6: | Increasing Knowledge to Improve Health Practices
Presenters Discuss: The relationship between desire for childbearing and HIV prevention behaviors among married women and possible explanations for low rates of HIV prevention behaviors in sub-Saharan Africa (Zimbabwe); the key issues pertaining to vaccination campaigns in developing countries, the role consumer demand plays in designing vaccination campaigns, how to balance consumer demand against costs for making optimal decisions about the number of clinics to include in a campaign, where to locate them, the required capacity of each clinic, and what price to charge for vaccinations (China); hypothermia as a significant yet preventable cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity; the importance of maintaining warm chain for preventing neonatal hypothermia and points of interventions required to keep warm chain intact for improving newborn thermal care at community level (India); programming for successful VCT for university students and factors associated with Voluntary Counseling and Testing uptake (Nigeria); and the benefits and challenges of providing home based care in a resource-limited environment (Nigeria).
Moderator:
Thomas L. Hall, MD, DrPH, UCSF School of Medicine, and Global Health Education Consortium
Presenters:
Mawuena Agbonyitor, MSc | presentation
Emily M. Evens, MPH | presentation
Temitope Ayodele Folaranmi | presentation
Dohyeong Kim | presentation
Prateek Srinet | presentation
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| C7: | Faithfulness and HIV Risk Within Marriage: Program and Research Perspectives
Presenters Discuss: The difference in attitudes, knowledge and practices of Faithful House (FH) program participants and non-participants and recommendations by community members on how to improve program content and implementation (Uganda); how qualitative research on marriage and faithfulness behaviors can be combined with other available data to guide program approaches, common characteristics of programs that have a positive impact on faithfulness behaviors, and the potential contribution of AB (abstinence and be faithful) messaging to sexual behavior change (sub-Saharan Africa); and several factors that contribute to HIV risk within marriage in Africa, recent findings on HIV risk within marriage, and how HIV risk within marriage varies by gender, age, and sociocultural context (Africa).
Moderator:
Elaine M. Murphy, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Population Reference Bureau
Presenters:
Dorothy Marcellar Brewster-Lee, MD | presentation
Emily E. Chambers | presentation
Allison Herling Ruark, MS | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| C8: | Achieving Sanitation and Safe Water for All: New Marketing and Community Approaches
Presenters Discuss: What has worked best to promote and market a new water disinfectant at the community level and the most successful approaches and the heath impact on diarrhea disease (Indonesia); two separate community-based approaches for providing safe drinking water at the household level in order to prevent diarrheal illness (Kenya); key behavioral determinants influencing the uptake of consistent and correct feces disposal and sanitation, primary motivators behind traditional and innovative sanitation improvement approaches, and ethical implications of using motivators such as incentives and shame to motivate behavior change; and the conceptual framework of the Peru Sanitation Marketing Initiative (SMI), the theoretical underpinnings of a sanitation marketing approach versus a traditional “supply side” capital subsidy approach to sanitation coverage, how sustainability, replication and scaling up take place in a SM program and the key Peru SMI outputs that address these issues (Peru).
Moderator:
John Borrazzo, PhD, U.S. Agency for International Development
Presenters:
Robert Chapman Ainslie, MA | presentation
Orlando Hernandez | presentation
Scott Andrew Tobias, MS | presentation
Keith Zook, MS | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| Thursday, May 29, 2008: 8:30-10:30 am |
| D1: | Health Systems Strengthening: The Role of the Private Sector
Presenters Discuss: Broader private sector involvement as essential to sustain and stimulate positive changes in community health (Nigeria); several frameworks for understanding faith-based health, the difference between FBOs and faith-based health networks, and potential roles for faith-based partners, especially health networks in renewing PHC (Liberia, DR Congo, Tanzania); how the private-sector is engaging their employees to fill the gap of 4 million healthcare workers in the developing world and how best-in-class programs can measure the impact of their efforts on grassroots public health organizations around the world (India, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda); and key characteristics of private care in low- and middle-income countries and policies to enhance the contribution the private sector can make to health outcomes (China, Vietnam, India, Uganda, Zambia).
Moderator:
Arnab Ghatak, MBA, Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company
Presenters:
Ibidun Adeniyi | presentation
Frank Baer, MHS-TM, DrPH | presentation
Rekha Chalasani, MPA | presentation
Jesper Erik Sundewall, MS | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| D2: | What's New?: Using Technology to Benefit the Community
Presenters Discuss: The capability to expand human resources for health through eLearning and assess the effectiveness of eLearning as a mode for delivery of nursing education (Kenya); best practices to implement sustainable strategic information (SI) systems (global); the elements of web based audio training for low literacy midwives on how to address domestic violence, three strategies to engage midwives in rural areas in the implementation of a culturally relevant program on violence prevention, and the impact family violence has on maternal health and strategies for responding (Mexico); and an overview of various creative and new media outlets that are breaking the boundaries of the social communications field, enabling wide spread dissemination of information and knowledge to new and diverse audiences (global).
Moderator:
Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications
Presenters:
Adesuwa Ewere Akinboro, MBA | presentation
Bobby Jefferson | presentation
Lisa Russell, MPH | presentation | song clip (4 MB)
Presenters' abstracts
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| D3: | Mental Health in Emergency Settings: Guidelines for Humanitarian Action
Presenters Discuss: Core principles of working on mental health issues in emergencies, and minimum responses to mental health and psychosocial support amidst emergencies (Uganda); serious mental disorders in emergencies, data, information and findings on four different mental health interventions in diverse emergency contexts, and an overview of a framework for action to address this problem as outlined in the new Inter Agency Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (Sierra Leone, Chad, Pakistan, Indonesia); and how public health professionals can integrate mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) into their emergency work and how to organize a well coordinated MHPSS that draws on local resources and community mobilization (Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Uganda).
Moderator:
Linda A. Poteat, InterAction
Presenters:
Henia Dakkak, MPH | presentation
Lynne Jones, OBE, MA, MRCPYSCH: P | presentation
Michael Wessells, PhD | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| D4: | Nuts and Bolts for Scaling-up Community Case Management for Children
Presenters Discuss: Why pharmaceutical management is an essential element and how it can be successfully integrated into community case management (CCM) programs (Democratic Republic of Congo); three major issues in human resource (HR) management for community health (Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan); state-of-the-art guidance for implementing community case management programs for childhood illness (Nepal, Senegal, Rwanda, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Southern Sudan, Honduras, Kenya, and Haiti); and the policy challenges to implementing community case management of childhood illnesses, how community health workers were trained in Senegal to successfully diagnose childhood pneumonia and manage antibiotics used to treat this infection and the significant contribution that community case management programs make to reduced child mortality and morbidity (Senegal).
Moderator:
Diana R. Silimperi, MD, BASICS
Presenters:
Gabriel Kaleka Bukasa, B. Pharm., MPH | presentation
Emmanuel D'Harcourt, MD | presentation
Lynette Walker, MPH | presentation
Emmanuel Wansi, MD, PhD
Presenters' abstracts
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| D5: | Engaging Underserved Communities in the Delivery of Malaria Interventions
Presenters Discuss: How nomads can manage malaria on the go when empowered to do so (Nigeria); the grassroots private sector role in delivery of lifesaving medicines and other interventions and the innovative approach and careful assessment necessary to engage them (Kenya); how trained and supported community members can contribute to reducing the high morbidity and mortality associated with infectious diseases among children under five by providing prompt treatment, basic advice and referral (Uganda); and how community members were utilized to assist in evaluating private sector providers’ practices in treating malaria, the value of simulated client assessments as a companion to formal, evaluator-led interviews with the providers, as well as the ability of community members to participate effectively in evaluations of this type (Rwanda).
Moderator:
Jane Frances Kengeya-Kayondo, MD, World Health Organization/Global Programme on AIDS | presentation
Presenters:
William Brieger
Jane Briggs, MCommH | presentation
Elizeus Rutebemberwa, MPH | presentation
Michael H. Seid, The HealthStore Foundation | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| D6: | Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Foundation to Last a Lifetime
Presenters Discuss: The components of a community based adolescent reproductive health program and the behavior change results from its impact evaluation (Ethiopia); the status of youth Reproductive Health (RH) in Vietnam, pilot models of Youth-Friendly Services (YFS) and lessons learned from the pilot (Vietnam); findings of an impact evaluation of school-based life planning skills training in shaping adolescents’ self-confidence and reproductive health knowledge and attitudes among disadvantaged young adolescents (China); and key design elements of participatory Entertainment Education youth program with community based underpinnings, three important strategies for addressing youth RH in conservative Islamic communities, and scenario-based inquiry for evaluating RH skills (Bangladesh).
Moderator:
Catharine McKaig, DrPH, MS, Jhpiego
Presenters:
Do Dang Khoi | presentation
Lisa M. Mueller, MA | presentation
Winifride Mwebesa, MD | presentation
Shana L Yansen, MS | presentation | movie (4.5 MB)
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| D7: | Community Empowerment: Key to Successful HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment
Presenters Discuss: The role of FBOs in male adolescent circumcision for HIV prevention as an entry point for adolescent sexual and reproductive (ASRH) health, the lessons learned in implementing ASRH in the context of male circumcision and recommendations for potential replication in other settings where appropriate (Kenya); community based adherence support models that can achieve successful clinical outcomes for successful HIV treatment programs (Zambia, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria,Haiti, Guyana ); and community involvement for effective integration of PMTCT, HIV care and ART (Tanzania).
Moderator:
Carl C. Stecker, RN, MPH, EdD, CHES, Catholic Relief Services
Presenters:
Salvador Garcia De La Torre, MD | presentation
Martine Etienne, MPH, DrPH | presentation
Stephen Lee | presentation
Presenters' abstracts
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| Thursday, May 29, 2008: 2:30-4:30 pm |
| E1: | Power to the People: The Role of Community Leaders
Presenters Discuss: The advantages Chiefdom involvement in an ART Support program and ways to link community volunteers to existing structures for supervision and sustainability (Zambia); how advocacy and beneficiary/community involvement can reduce stigma and discrimination (India); and the important role judges can play as community leaders, educators, and models of justice, fairness, and respect for human rights in the HIV/AIDS response, the process and benefits of providing consistent HIV/AIDS guidelines for judges so judges are able to contribute to a positive legal, legislative, and policy environment on HIV/AIDS and reduce the burdens of stigma and discrimination (Zambia).
Moderator:
Joseph Dwyer, MS, Director, Leadership, Management and Sustainability Program, Management Sciences for Health
Presenters:
Stella Mlewa-Nkhoma, LLM | presentation
Laxmi K. Priya, BA | presentation
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| E2: | Community Advocacy Campaigns: Advancing the Reproductive Health and Family Planning Agenda
Presenters Discuss: Key approaches to mobilizing communities around maternal health rights and entitlements and monitoring of policies and programs (India); the rationale for family planning (FP) in a transitional country with a rapidly declining population and very low fertility (Ukraine); what strategies were used to reform Ethiopia’s restrictive abortion laws, how communities were engaged in this process and became catalysts of change, and challenges and efforts to ensure that the new laws is successfully implemented on a community level (Ethiopia); and a model for designing and implementing an advocacy campaign, key tips for promoting a controversial family planning innovation, the challenges and benefits of the recent experience in Africa for promoting community-based provision of injectable contraception (Africa).
Moderator:
Anu Kumar, PhD, Executive Vice President for Development and Communications, Ipas
Presenters:
Laurette Cucuzza | presentation
Kirsten W. Krueger, MSW | presentation
Reshma Trasi, MBBS, MHA, MPH | presentation
Merrill Wolf, MA | presentation
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| E3: | Engaging Communities in Behavior Change through Formative Research
Presenters Discuss: Behavioral determinants of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) and the basics of the Barrier Analysis method and BEHAVE framework for engaging communities in discovering what facilitates/hinders healthy behaviors (Mozambique); the influential role of mothers-in-law regarding Reproductive Health (RH) decision-making and the importance of evidence-based programming (Egypt); how field workers used barrier analysis to contribute to a 25% increase in exclusive breastfeeding (Sierra Leone); and the public health intervention of fathers’ clubs as a child health and survival strategy and the perceptions of fathers about their fathering role and the contribution of fathers’ clubs in their lives (rural Haiti).
Moderator:
William T. Story, MPH, Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
Presenters:
Dina Bebawi | presentation
Mary Hennigan, MPH | presentation
Elizabeth Sloand | presentation
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| E4: | Caring for the Newborns: Revisiting PMTCT and Post-Natal Care
Presenter Discusses: The importance of integrating quality PMTCT programs and postnatal maternal and newborn health care for HIV positive and negative mothers (Swaziland).
Moderator:
Sara Stratton, MPH, Intrahealth International
Presenters:
Mary Lyn Field-Nguer, MSN, FNP | presentation
Goldy Mazia, MD, MPH | presentation | presentation | movie (13 MB)
Catherine Wilfert, MD | presentation
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| Friday, May 30, 2008: 8:30-10:30 am |
| Special Panel Session: Leadership and Management Development: Creating Stronger, Healthier Communities
Presenters Discuss: How the strategy of Municipios y Comunidades Saludables (MCS) or Healthy Communities and Municipalities promotes community participation in the improvement of maternal and child health in high-risk communities (Peru); how Champion Communities built on community assets and engaged a broad-base of the community to achieve change, how USAID/Santénet application of Champion Communities leveraged performance management and incentives to engage communities in improving health practices and outcomes, and how Santénet has scaled up the approach (Madagascar); the Community Partnership for Health (CPH) initiative as an innovative tool designed to improve quality and increase utilization of maternal and child health services and the replication of the CPH initiative in other countries (Armenia); and activities that generate social capital that inspires improvement in social harmony, healthcare, and care of the environment, strategies and tools for community management that foster the application of positive values and involvement of families and officials in community development and the influence of values-based leadership in improving relationships (Nicaragua).
Moderator:
Susana Galdos, Management Sciences for Health
Presenters:
Timothy R. Allen, MBA, BS | presentation
Elena Décima, MA | presentation
Philippe LeMay | presentation
Iren Sargsyan, MD, MPH | presentation
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| Friday, May 30, 2008: 10:15 am-12:15 pm |
| F2: | Integrating Reproductive Health into Community Mobilization Programs
Presenters Discuss: Integration of Reproductive Health (RH) and environmental protection through nonformal education, the effects of the integration process on health, environment, and literacy, and successful features of the process to other settings (Ethiopia); how to establish and sustain a community-based social sector program integrating health and education (Nigeria); and dissemination of results of a review of community- based Population-Environment field projects (Philippines, Madagascar).
Moderator:
Eric A. Swedberg, MPH, Save the Children
Presenters:
Mengistu Asnake | presentation
Bola Kusemiju | presentation
John D. Pielemeier, BSFS, MS | presentation
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| F3: | Measuring the Impact of Public Health Information: Evidence and Practice
Presenters Discuss: The experience of one program in developing a structured, online database specifically focused on documenting research utilization and nuts-and-bolts guidance for the development of a system to capture qualitative and quantitative data on research utilization (global); where knowledge management fits in the USAID Office of Population and Reproductive Health (PRH) results framework; how measuring the impact of information activities contributes to improved programming; and why donors and implementers should invest in effective tools to measure that impact (global); a conceptual framework and indicators to design strong health information products and services, monitor their progress and evaluate their impact (global) and; the application of selected indicators of use that demonstrate the quality of information products and their impact on health policies and programs (global).
Moderator:
Laura Raney, Population Council
Presenters:
Susan McIntyre | presentation
Ellen H. Starbird, MA | presentation
Tara Marie Sullivan, PhD | presentation
Barbara K. Timmons, PhD | presentation
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| F4: | Integrating Community-Based Newborn Interventions into Existing Programs
Presenters Discuss: Home-Based Newborn Care (HBNC), how was it replicated in the project ANKUR, results and problems, and further scaling up (India); improving home and community management of pneumonia (Uganda); the most recent findings from a newborn vitamin A (VA) supplementation trial in Bangladesh, a meta-analysis of newborn VA supplementation trials in Southern Asia, and policy and program implications for newborn VA supplementation as a promising new way to reduce infant mortality (Southern Asia); and the processes and impact of a package of community-based interventions to bring positive changes in community practices towards birth preparedness and newborn survival (Bangladesh).
Moderator:
Shyam Thapa, Director for Policy and Program Research, Save the Children, Saving Newborn Lives
Presenters:
Abhay Thakurdas Bang | presentation
Karin Källander, PhD | presentation
Rolf D.W. Klemm, DrPH | presentation
Mohammad Rasheduzzaman Shah, M.Sc | presentation
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| F5: | Mobilizing Communities in the Control of Tuberculosis
Presenters Discuss: How multi-disciplinary collaboration among health professionals and use of new tools are key for multidrug resistant (MDRTB) control and second-line TB drugs management (Brazil); the key components of DOTS, opportunities for collaboration between community-based and facility-based elements of TB control, and how the medical model of TB control can be improved and expanded using a collaborative, client-centered approach (Mexico); working with local CBOs and NGOs in target communities to develop localized approaches to overcoming barriers to access (Pakistan); and the World Bank’s role as a source of financing and technical guidance in the development and implementation of sector-wide approaches (SWAps) for health, the history of the Bank’s support for SWAps, rationale, challenges to implementation, and intended outcomes (Africa, South Asia).
Moderator:
Richard Skolnik, Population Reference Bureau
Presenters:
Joel Keravec, DVM, PhD, MBA | presentation
Farah Naureen, MBBS, MPH | presentation
Janine Schooley, MPH | presentation
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| F6: | In and Out of Crisis: Strategies to Address Community Health Issues
Presenters Discuss: An alternative strategy to providing reproductive health services to internally displaced persons (IDP) in a conflict setting and the Mobile Obstetric Maternal Health Workers (MOM) Project as a sustainable, multi-level network of maternal health workers (MHWs), health workers (HWs) and traditional birth attendants (TBAs) providing community-based reproductive health services (Burma); the risk to health care provision that can result during the transition between humanitarian assistance and development funding in post-conflict environments and how to apply an evidence-based approach to transitional decision-making that better ensures the continuity and coverage of facility-based health services to communities (Liberia); and mobilizing the community for active participation in resolving emerging public health issues (South Darfur Sudan).
Moderator:
Therese J. McGinn, DrPH, Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Presenters:
Saw Lin Yone | presentation
Melissa Sharer | presentation
Megan Shepherd-Banigan, MPH | presentation
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| F7: | More than a Game: Youth, Sports and Community Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Presenters Discuss: How sport can be used to attract at-risk and hard-to-reach individuals for HIV education and testing, while breaking down the stigma attached to the disease, results obtained from a variety of children’s testing events linked to sport and how sports-based HIV education and testing events can be replicated in other settings (Lesotho); the established domains of impact for child and youth participation, the evidence base for child and youth participation and its limitations, the effectiveness of participation strategies employed, and opportunities for further needed research into child and youth participation in community based HIV programming (Kenya); and key components of sport-based youth HIV/AIDS prevention programming and program design (Liberia and Sudan).
Moderator:
Carlos E. Cardenas, MD, MPH, Mercy Corps
Presenters:
Peter James Fleming, MS | presentation
William Oscar Fleming, MSPH | presentation
Kirk Friedrich | presentation
J. Matt Streng, MPH | presentation
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| Friday, May 30, 2008: 2:15-4:15 pm |
| G1: | Building the Evidence Base for Innovative and Effective Community Mobilization Approaches
Presenters Discuss: The community mobilization approaches that Project HOPE has used in various child survival projects that have contributed to a reduction in the under 5 mortality rate (Haiti, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan); experiences in implementing effective models for child survival interventions (Madagascar); a method to convert coverage changes to estimation of child mortality changes, comparisons of project data to DHS data, giving an estimate of project mortality impact and results of an analysis of over 50 recent USAID-supported child survival projects (global); and key community mobilization approaches that facilitated use of health care services and use of healthy behaviors, ultimately reducing child mortality (Mali).
Moderator:
Nazo Kureshy, MPH, U.S. Agency for International Development
Presenters:
Luis Benavente, MD | presentation
Ruth Madison, MPH | presentation
Jim Ricca, MPH, MD | presentation
Laban E. Tsuma, MB, chB, MPH | presentation
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| G2: | Transforming Communications about Reproductive Health
Presenters Discuss: A participatory research methodology that explores the power of pleasure and the salience of sexual hierarchies with sex workers participating in HIV prevention programs and how ‘grounded’ information about pleasure and sexual hierarchies can enhance standard HIV harm reduction strategies for MARP (India); the added value of health communication and edutainment-based interventions to address social determinants of health in the context of reproductive and women’s health (Peru); how empowerment of women can address sexual health concerns and develop skills to counter their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS (India); and the principles of innovations approach in sexual and reproductive health programming, social analysis as a step further in baseline surveys, necessary for addressing the roots of vulnerability and support sustainable improvement of reproductive health of the target group and challenging the power structures related to intergenerational relationships and gender to protect sexual and reproductive health of communities (Georgia).
Moderator:
Milka Dinev, Eng. MBA., Project Director, Extending Service Delivery Project (ESD), Pathfinder International
Presenters:
Sarah Degnan Kambou, PhD | presentation
Rafael Antonio Obregon, PhD | presentation
J. Subbanna, MBBS, MD, DNB | presentation
Maia Tavadze | presentation
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| G3: | Building Community Partnerships for Avian Influenza Control
Presenters Discuss: How an emergency health program can suddenly reach into the heart of a vast community to train 29,000 volunteers in disease surveillance and response (Indonesia); the tools to better negotiate through the multidisciplinary nature of zoonotic diseases and the national to community-level coordination required for the implementation of prevention and preparedness activities (Egypt); how a community-based model to avian influenza (AI) control can help mobilize key stakeholders and influence communities’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices in response to AI outbreaks, the role of social mobilization in emergency communication response processes and how working with high-level stakeholders fosters the sustainability of AI prevention and control efforts (Ghana); and the process of participatory action research and how it was used to assess the food security, cultural and economic implications of AI, some of the community perceptions of AI in these two countries and how those perceptions impede or facilitate AI prevention and control measures, findings of the PAR study that have direct implications on policy and communication, and the similarities and differences of perceptions and beliefs related to poultry and AI (Nigeria, Burkina Faso).
Moderator:
Ricardo Echalar | presentation
Presenters:
Ron Hess | presentation
Taufik Jeremias | presentation
Susan Zimicki, PhD | presentation
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| G4: | Engaging African Communities for Effective Management of Childhood Illness
Presenters Discuss: WHO/AFRO community case management of childhood illness, lessons learned, and the way forward (Africa); community health workers successfully managing antibiotics to treat pneumonia and community-based treatment of malaria with ACTs (Senegal), the role of well trained community based volunteers in improving home based management of fever and malaria (Uganda); and how to engage partners (WHO-AFRO, UNICEF, BASICS) for the implementation of community case management activities in three West African countries (West Africa).
Moderator:
Doyin Oluwole, MD, FRCP, Academy for Educational Development
Presenters:
Phanuel Habimana | presentation
Mame Mbayabg Dio | presentation
Jesca Sabiiti | presentation
Ismael Thiam, MD, MRIPH | presentation
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| G5: | Taking the Lead: Youth Leadership and Peer Education to Improve Health
Presenters Discuss: Results and lessons learned from an integrated reproductive health and livelihoods program to improve the well-being of young people (India); how adolescent girls can be trained to reach peers and adults in their communities on issues that affect their health and well-being (Nepal); adolescent empowerment as an effective and sustainable approach to raising awareness and enforcing laws related to child marriage (Nepal); the Leadership Action Plan component of the Youth Leadership in Sexual and Reproductive Health Program (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Mexico).
Moderator:
Anne Wilson
Presenters:
Anjala Kanesathasan, MPH | presentation
Piush Kayastha, MS | presentation
Deepak Paudel, MPH | presentation
Josephine Pauline Ramos, MA | presentation
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| G6: | Attitude and Access: Abortion and Post Abortion Care
Presenters Discuss: The challenges and motivations of clandestine abortion providers in settings with restrictive abortion laws (Nigeria); how a small grant program can be developed and implemented to expand access to Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) services, the best practices, challenges and lessons learned in using small grants to engage communities to bring about and sustain access to CAC and other related family planning services and the potential for replication of a similar small grants program in other settings (Nigeria); a model for community mobilization around Postabortion Care (PAC) and how to apply the model in different country contexts (Bolivia, Peru, Egypt); and how public opinion on abortion and emergency contraception (EC) in Mexico changed over time from 2000 to 2006 and the policy implications of Mexican public opinion about these complex issues (Mexico).
Moderator:
Johannes Van Dam, Deputy Director, HORIZONS/Population Council
Presenters:
Akin Akorede Akiode, MS | presentation
Chudi Kenneth Ene, MBA | presentation
Caroline Tran | presentation
Katherine Wilson, MPH | presentation
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| Saturday, May 31, 2008: 9:30-11:30 am |
| H1: | Foot Soldiers for Health: Community Health Volunteers for Disease Detection and Treatment
Presenters Discuss: The process of empowering and involving the communities in an effort to eradicate blinding trachoma and assess a partnership of communities, public sector and NGOs in achieving results (Ethiopia); how Community-directed Intervention (CDI) allows for efficient co- implementation of multiple interventions at the community level, and enhance integrated planning and communication at different levels of the health system (Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda and Tanzania); diabetes as a global pandemic, components of a peer education strategy, and applicability of peer education to grow community ownership and sustainability (Mexico); and how indigenous health workers communicate, train, and collaborate with lay village health workers (VHWs) to provide complex health interventions and expand services and the right of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to health care and malaria testing, treatment and control (Eastern Burma).
Moderator:
Connie Gates, MPH, Jamkhed International
Presenters:
Yeshewamebrat Ejigsemahu | presentation
Elizabeth Elhassan, MD | presentation
Courtney Elizabeth Guthreau | presentation
Htee Moo | presentation
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| H2: | A Strong Start: Mobilizing Communities for Safe Delivery
Presenters Discuss: A community-based approach to neonatal infection management and changes in care-seeking for sick newborns (Nepal); lessons learned from community health funding systems for promoting skilled attendance at birth and information about the Desa Siaga program for adaptation and replication in their own setting (Indonesia); and maternal and neonatal mortality in Pakistan, the three-delays model as it applies to a rural and socially conservative setting in Pakistan and specific community-based interventions and health services interventions to address the three delays (Pakistan).
Moderator:
Maryanne Stone-Jimenez, MSc, PMTCT and Training Advisor, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood
Presenters:
Jaganath Sharma, MBBS | presentation
Ibu Sushanty, MPH | presentation
Abdul Wajid, MBBS, MSc | presentation
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