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We invite you to participate in the following featured events hosted by our sponsor/member and partner organizations.
Visit this page often for additional events, updated speaker and agenda information.
No advance sign up is required for auxiliary events, unless noted within the event description. Auxiliary events are open to registered conference attendees.
Ongoing | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
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| Ongoing Exhibits |
Student Photography Exhibit: Transforming Research into Art
Hosted by: Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University | visit website
Palladian Ballroom Foyer (map)
 This photography exhibit has evolved from public health students completing their international field practicum for the Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Students find that the photography medium allows them to not only make connections with people in the communities that they are working in, but also to share their vivid memories with others upon returning home.
2008 Global Health Award for Photography Exhibit
Hosted by: the Global Health Council | visit website
Regency Ballroom Foyer (map)
 Explore the visual work of the 2008 Global Health Council’s Photography Award recipient Sarah Day, an accomplished freelance photographer with a master’s degree in international health. Whether in southern Sudan just after the signing of the 2005 Naivasha Peace Agreement, in Romania with vulnerable children, in Rwanda for their first international mountain bike race, among goatherds in Turkana, Kenya, or in the coffee-rich mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, she has chosen to use her talents in support of meaningful work that enriches the lives of others. Growing up in the developing world, Sarah developed a heart for promoting human dignity by telling stories of hope and opportunity. It wasn’t until she discovered photography, however, that she found her medium for communicating and engaging in global issues, and her camera has been an extension of her ever since. Sarah's subsequent studies prepared her for several years of communication work on behalf of a number of international NGOs. The award winning photograph was taken in the Sudan, on assignment with a Kenya-based international development organization that funds projects throughout East Africa. More information on Sarah’s work can be found at www.sarahdayphotography.com. For further inquiries about her work and availability, contact her directly at asarahday@gmail.com.
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| Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
Building a Partnership between Communities and their Health Systems in Resource-Poor Settings
9–11 am
Hosted by: African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF) | visit website
Blue Room (map)
 AMREF will host discussions on the need to shift from mere community participation to community partnering as a suitable approach to strengthening health systems and a prerequisite for improving health care delivery. Despite accelerated investment in health in sub-Saharan Africa, community engagement remains inadequate to ensure reversal of negative health trends. With 50 years of experience working with communities in Africa, AMREF will present a case study to illustrate that unless communities become part of the formal health system, and drive their own health development, the challenges they face will not be overcome. During break-out sessions participants will discuss community engagement in decision making; increasing accountability to communities; building community capacity to engage with health systems; and the kind of interventions that empower communities. The event will enable interaction between south-based development specialists and their northern counterparts on realistic integration of communities into health systems and their respective roles in enhancing that integration. Refreshments will be served.
Sharing Lessons Learned from the AWARE-RH project: Disseminating Best Practices while Building Regional Capacity for Reproductive Health
9-11 am
Hosted by: AWARE-RH Project managed by EngenderHealth | visit website
Governors Room (map)
 The five-year, USAID-funded Action for the West Africa Region Reproductive Health (AWARE-RH) Project, which operated from 2003 to 2008 and covered 21 countries, will share exciting results and lessons learned from replicating key best practices; improving policy environments and strengthening institutional capacity throughout West Africa. The AWARE-RH Project replicated six best practice models designed to improve family planning, reproductive health, and child survival in eight countries in the region. These models include aspects of health sector reform, community mobilization, and commodity security. Further, the project increased regional stakeholder advocacy for policy change in the region and strengthened the capacity of regional institutions and networks to support program implementation. This meeting with highlight the Project’s strategies and results and will include a short country case study to demonstrate how the various components were seamlessly integrated into overall project implementation.
Community-Based Integrated Neglected Tropical Disease Control: Early Country Experiences
10 am-Noon
Hosted by: RTI International | visit website
Executive Room (map)
 This session explores how community-based distribution strategies for mass drug administration are being used to eliminate and control lympathic filariasis, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, and trachoma. These diseases cause disability, reduce mobility, contribute to childhood malnutrition, and can lead to blindness and severe disfigurement, especially among rural and marginal populations who lack access to safe water, basic health services, and essential medicines. Affected individuals often face stigmatization and abuse, further contributing to social and economic marginalization. In several African countries national integrated NTD programs are reducing the disease burden attributable to five NTDs that can be can be prevented and/or cured using community-based distribution strategies with highly effective drugs donated by pharmaceutical companies. This session will present the experience of various country programs' approaches to integrated NTD control to provide guidance for cost-effective disease elimination and control globally.
Els Mathieu, MD, MPH | presentation
Adrian D. Hopkins | presentation
A. Sam-Abbenyi, MD, MSc | presentation
John Gyapong, MD, MPH, PhD presentation
Prof. Alan Fenwick, OBE PhD | presentation
The Private Sector: An Essential Resource for Community Health
12:30-1 pm: Registration
1-4:30 pm: Panel
Hosted by: USAID's Private Sector Partnerships One Project (PSP-One) | visit website
Diplomat Ballroom (map)
 As public health systems in developing countries struggle to provide essential health services, many turn to the private sector for their health care needs. This expert panel, hosted by the PSP-One Project led by Abt Associates, showcases a range of examples of how the for-profit sector can be a key partner in providing health information, products and services to even the poorest communities in the developing world.
RSVP: Send an email to RSVP@psp-one.com.
Biannual Meeting
2:30–7:30 pm
Hosted by: Postabortion Care Consortium | visit website
Governors Room (map)
 The Postabortion Care (PAC) Consortium is a network of organizations that works to inform the reproductive health community about possible complications related to miscarriage and incomplete abortion, and to promote postabortion care as an effective strategy for addressing this global problem. Consortium members, individually and in partnership, implement postabortion care programs around the world and also encourage technical agencies, governments and donors to incorporate postabortion care into their own programs and policies as a critical step in reducing deaths and injuries of women from complications related to miscarriage and abortion-related consequences. Members also participate, per their interest, in one of the five inter-agency groups: Communications Task Force; Essential Elements of PAC Task Force; Safe Motherhood Task Force; PAC Technologies Task Force; and Youth-Friendly Working Group. Membership in the PAC Consortium is open with no sign up required for participation in the meetings or the task forces of the PAC Consortium.
Reception with Private Sector Leaders in Community Health
6:30–8:00 pm
 Hosted by: Abt Associates Inc. | visit website
Diplomat Ballroom (map)
Join experts from the field of international health to share and exchange experiences in collaborating with the private sector to improve community health in developing countries. Refreshments will be served. All conference attendees are welcome. RSVP: Send an email to RSVP@psp-one.com.
Improved Performance, Increased Retention: Strengthening Human Resources Management
6:30–8:30 pm
Hosted by: USAID’s Capacity Project | visit website
Executive Room (map)
 Addressing the global shortage of human resources for health calls not only for increasing the sheer numbers of health professionals but also for supporting and motivating health workers to remain in their jobs and to do them well. Drawing on the experiences of USAID’s global Capacity Project, this participatory workshop explores approaches for fostering improved performance, enhancing health workers’ time utilization, strengthening health professional associations, and enabling leaders in human resources for health to more effectively manage and support the workforce.
Scaling Up Primary Health Care Interventions for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
6:30–8:30 pm
Hosted by: Pan American Health Organization | visit website
Ambassador Ballroom (map)
 Chronic diseases are now the leading cause of premature mortality and disability globally. The most commonly occurring chronic diseases and those of greatest public health importance for public health are cardiovascular diseases including hypertension, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases. Many interventions for the management of chronic diseases are cost-effective; for example, beta blockers and aspirin are low-cost and effective measures to reduce the chance of recurrent heart attacks; controlling blood sugar, ensuring access to insulin, and blood pressure control can prevent complications and early mortality among those with diabetes; and early treatment and surgical removal of tumors, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy improve cancer survival. But there are serious concerns about the access to quality care and medication for the management of chronic diseases in the developing world. This session provides the elements of the needs for access to quality care for chronic conditions at the primary level of care and showcases examples of effective programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Community-Based Approaches for Maternal and Newborn Care
6:30–8:30 pm
Hosted by: Save the Children | visit website
Palladian Ballroom (map)
 Join us in honoring Ms. Anne Tinker, a champion of community-based maternal and newborn health and retired director of Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives program, at Save the Children’s annual Global Health Council Conference reception. The reception will also provide the opportunity to learn the latest developments in community-based maternal and newborn health. Hors d’oeuvres will be served and all are welcome. Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives program, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, works in partnership with 18 countries to reduce newborn mortality and improve newborn health.
Moving Toward Eradication: Malaria's Next Frontiers
7-9 pm
Hosted by: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs | visit website and
Jhpiego | visit website
Blue Room (map)
 This session approaches malaria eradication through developing new tools, promoting research and strengthening health systems. The session will use as a case study the scale-up of programs linking malaria and reproductive health. We will discuss how to plan for, invest in and implement programs, particularly in high-burden settings. The session will include discussions of research needs as well as prevention and case management of malaria. It will include a Q&A period as well as a networking reception.
A Call to Promote the Practice of Early Initiation of Breastfeeding - the Indonesia Experience
7-9 pm
Hosted by: JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. and The Manoff Group | visit website
Congressional Rooms A/B (map)
 In Indonesia, USAID’s Health Services Program (HSP) promotes a simple, cost effective, evidence-based intervention to save the lives of mothers and newborns – the early initiation of breastfeeding. Much is known about the efficacy of breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact between newborns and mothers during the first hour after delivery. HSP has updated midwife training materials, produced a clinical training video, and promoted community activities for early initiation. One of the most successful aspects of this campaign is advocacy workshops, with local government and health officials joining together to promote early breastfeeding. The phenomenal success of these workshops is largely due to one extraordinary champion, Dr. Utami Roseli, a leading Indonesian pediatrician. Dr. Utami’s enthusiasm and tireless efforts to reach women, health providers and government policy makers is truly saving lives. During this session, participants will meet Dr. Utami and learn about her innovative approach to promoting early breastfeeding.
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| Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
Special Session: Hot Topics: Communities in Conflict Zones
10 am–Noon
Hosted by: Humanitarian Health Caucus | visit website
Capitol Room (map)
The Humanitarian Health Caucus invites conference participants to a lively dialogue between Ron Waldman and Mukesh Kapila discussing "Current Good Practice in Humanitarian Response" on Wednesday, May 28, 2008, from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon in the Capitol Room. In this special session, leaders in the field will discuss current challenges and potential solutions in humanitarian health work. The goals of the session are to raise awareness of the critical global interests of members of the health community, to promote greater participation in international dialogue on humanitarian health work and, by doing so, to strengthen the delivery of the humanitarian health response. The event will be open to all attendees of the Global Health Council conference. For more information, please contact Ela.Anil@TheIRC.org.
Auxiliary Luncheon Session: Improving Maternal Health and Reducing Child Mortality: Exploring Common Issues for High Impact Solutions
Noon-1:30 pm
Hosted by: the Abbott Fund | visit website
Regency Ballroom (map)
Panelists discuss community-based approaches that are succeeding in increasing access to health services for women and children and decreasing morbidity and mortality rates. This expert panel will compare results, share lessons learned and future possibilities for integrating maternal and child health services into other aspects of patient care.
Panelists:
Ward Cates, MD, MPH, President of Research at Family Health International
Leon Kintaudi, MD, Medical Director, ECC/DOM, DR Congo
George A. Little, MD, Prof. of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth
Thuy Nguyen, MD, MPH, Giao Diem Humanitarian Foundation
Moderator:
Katherine F. Pickus, Vice President, Abbott Fund
Auxiliary Luncheon Session: Financing for Cancer and Chronic Disease Care in Emerging Markets
12:15–1:45 pm
Sponsored by: Novartis Oncology | visit website
Hosted by: Axios International | visit website
Blue Room (map)
 This session will focus on how the current models of funding and global health programs could address different and complex challenges posed by cancer and chronic disease management in countries with emerging economies. Funding and programs will need to be configured uniquely (different to acute care) to respond to quality of care for cancer and chronic diseases, which require participatory, long-term, and wide-reaching programs for its control, particularly to provide continuous monitoring and care. Community involvement will be essential in the design of these new types of health initiatives, particularly to encompass broader aspects such as public awareness of cancer, access to diagnostics, infrastructure, and capacity.
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Get Smart: Technology and Community Health
5:30–7:30 pm
Hosted by: AED | visit website
Ambassador Ballroom (map)
 Relax and learn how technology is changing community health while enjoying refreshments. In developing countries, low-cost mobile computing devices can help overcome challenges such as unreliable power, low bandwidth, and scarce resources. New "social media" offer opportunities for community mobilization and education. AED-SATELLIFE Center for Health Information and Technology and AED Center for Health Communication experts will introduce cutting-edge computing and connectivity approaches for health and development, including case studies on how mobile technologies are improving health data collection and sharing as well as accessing research, treatment guidelines, and drug lists in remote areas of Africa. Get hands-on demonstrations of PDAs, GPS, and other new communication tools, and see how social media can be leveraged. A PDA loaded with HIV/AIDS treatment information will be raffled. All conference attendees are welcome.
Social Reception
5:30–7:30 pm
Hosted by: Global Health Fellows Program, Public Health Institute | visit website
Congressional Rooms A/B (map)
 The Global Health Fellows Program is hosting a reception at the Global Health Council Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 28 from 5:30-7:30 pm. Join program staff, current and former fellows and your colleagues in the field of global health for hors d'oeuvres, beverages and socializing in a relaxed setting. Want to learn more about our fellowship and internship opportunities? Come talk to us!
Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems Worldwide: RPM Plus Accomplishments and Future Directions
5:30–7:30 pm
Hosted by: Management Sciences for Health | visit website
Empire Ballroom (map)
 In this interactive session, eight years’ worth of lessons learned in working with over 50 countries to strengthen their pharmaceutical systems, especially in the context of scaling up major treatment programs, such as antiretroviral therapy and artemisinin-based combination therapy will be shared. The afternoon includes presentations on the overview of the Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Program and poster stations in which project highlights, information on the successful tools that have been created and implemented, and collaborations with other organizations and donors, including the Gates Foundation-funded accredited drug dispensing outlet program in Tanzania will be discussed. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to learn about Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems, which is the new USAID program that builds on RPM Plus activities and expands into new areas including good governance and financing in the pharmaceutical sector and pharmacovigilance.
50 Years of Innovation in Community Reproductive Health Programming
5:30–7:30 pm
 Hosted by: Pathfinder International | visit website
Palladian Ballroom (map)
Representatives from Pathfinder International’s field offices will present pioneering innovations and strategies in community programming, focusing on home-based care, community mobilization, and integrated programming. The presentation will be interactive and leave plenty of room for discussion and questions. Mohamed Abou Nar from the USAID-funded, Pathfinder-managed Takamol project in Egypt will share lessons learned from their community mobilization efforts including the project’s results working with clinic management boards. Irene Mwaponda from the Pathfinder/Kenya office will present CHBC results from the USAID-funded APHIA program. Uche Ekenna, head of Pathfinder’s USAID-funded COMPASS program in Nigeria will speak about his project’s efforts in integrating health and education at the community level. Rekha Masilamani, Country Representative for Pathfinder/India will discuss lessons learned from one of her programs in Bihar, India. And finally, Milka Dinev, Project Director for Pathfinder’s global USAID-funded project, Extending Service Delivery, will moderate the discussion and explain how lessons learned from each program tie into the global context of community programming.
Mohamed Abou Nar, MBA, MSc | presentation
What's New in Health Governance: Country Models from Asia and Africa
5:30–7:30 pm
Hosted by: RTI International | visit website
Governors Room (map)
What’s New in Health Governance?: Country models from Africa and Asia. This session explores how to translate the core components of good governance – responsive policy-making, citizen participation, accountability, transparency and anti-corruption – into practical changes in health systems that lead to improved health sector performance and service delivery. This session, designed for health sector policy makers, managers and providers, will introduce concepts, tools and practical experiences for designing and implementing interventions that can lead to good governance in the health sector. The organizers will share innovative strategies for promoting good governance in countries as diverse as Guinea, Rwanda, Philippines and Nepal. Through participatory exercises, participants will learn how to assess strengths and weaknesses of governance practices in the health settings in which they work, and select among a variety of governance strengthening interventions that can help decision makers, health service users and providers to pursue changes that lead to better health outcomes.
“Let's Get Engaged”: The ACQUIRE Project -- A Framework for Engaging Communities in Family Planning and Reproductive Health Programs
6–8 pm
Hosted by: ACQUIRE Project | visit website
Executive Room (map)
 An opportunity to share a conceptual framework and stimulate dialogue about what community engagement means for RH/FP programming. The ACQUIRE project will engage audience participants in discussions about indicators and interventions related to the ACQUIRE Community Engagement (ACE) continuum.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Use the ACQUIRE Community Engagement continuum (ACE) as a backdrop for dialogue related to how and why we engage communities in FP/RH programs;
- To share the stories from communities that represent the levels of the continuum;
- To record input from audience as initiation of ongoing dialogue on community engagement in FP/RH
Strategic Health Partnerships with NGOs: Linking Global and National Priorities with Community Realities
6-8 pm
Hosted by: CORE Group | visit website, CSTS+ | visit website and CSHGP | visit website
Capitol Room (map)
 How can NGO partnerships lead to scaling-up of maternal, newborn and child health strategies and interventions? This interactive session will allow participants to discuss findings and results from several different models that have emerged from the USAID Child Survival and Health Grants Program, the CORE Group's Diffusion of Innovations approach, and the Development of Malaria Secretariats. Discussions will focus on how these partnerships link local communities with national health sector powerbrokers, identify and diffuse promising innovations, and build local capacity for service delivery and advocacy. The session will be designed to maximize interaction between participants and practitioners of these approaches, to generate valuable insights for strategic programming that contributes to impact at scale.
Progressive Vision, Positive Change: Building Capacity for a Healthier Rwanda
6-8 pm
Hosted by: IntraHealth International | visit website
Blue Room (map)
 This interactive event highlights success stories and lessons learned from one organization’s efforts to support the Rwandan government’s progressive vision for better health care. Themes will include strengthening human resources for health; improving health policy, planning and information systems; building partnerships at the community, district and national levels; decentralizing and integrating services; repositioning family planning; and assessing and addressing gender-related barriers to health care.
Public-Private Collaborations to Improve Community Health: Reports from the Field
6-8 pm
Hosted by: Global Health Progress, an initiative of EFPIA, IFPMA and PhRMA | visit website
Hampton Room (map)
 Please join the Global Health Progress initiative for a reception with featured speakers from NGOs and the private sector sharing their experiences from successful public-private partnerships improving community health programs across the globe. Refreshments will be served. All conference attendees are welcome.
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| Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
Mid-Year Meeting
12:30–2:00 pm
Hosted by: American Public Health Association/International Health Section | visit website
Executive Room (map)
 A business meeting of the section council and leadership, open to all section members and conference participants. The meeting will address progress on plans of the IH section and its committees & working groups, collaboration with the Global Health Council, and planning for the annual meeting of APHA in San Diego, October 27-31, 2008.
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Auxiliary Luncheon Session: Enhancing Human Resources for Health
12:45-2:15 pm
Hosted by: Merck & Co., Inc. | visit website
Blue Room (map)
 According to the WHO, 57 countries, most in Africa and Asia, face a severe health workforce crisis. Therefore, there is an urgent need to bring together partners to provide solutions to the critical shortages of adequately trained health professionals. A panel of experts from the public and private sectors will share methodologies and lessons learned for improving the skills, strengthening and ultimately increasing capacity of existing workforces and for creating sustainable health systems.
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| Friday, May 30, 2008 |
Business Meeting
10-11 am
Hosted by: Spirit of Alma Ata 1978 Caucus | visit website
Regency Ballroom (map)
The Alma Ata Caucus invites all conference participants to attend and share experiences, research, and resources for renewing Primary Health Care. Participants will discuss upcoming research opportunities, events, and other activities that can serve to promote a vision of Primary Health Care with special attention to issues of equity, empowerment, social determinants of health, and sustainability. Interested participants will also help plan Caucus activities for the coming year.
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| Saturday, May 31, 2008 |
Collaborative Dialogue Session: Global Health Training Materials: What's Available, What's Under Development, What's Needed?
9:30-11 am
Hosted by: Global Health Council | visit website, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Global Health Programs | visit website and the Global Health Education Consortium | visit website
Directors Room (map)
Many academic institutions are developing teaching and training programs in global health, for undergraduates, professional and graduate students, and residents. This open session for discussion and dialogue will examine what is available now and what is currently under development; the needs of institutions building global health curricula; and how institutions might benefit from a collaborative effort in curriculum development.
Discussion Facilitators:
Neal Nathanson, MD; Global Health Programs, University of Pennsylvania
Tom Hall, MD, DrPH; UCSF School of Medicine; and Global Health Education Consortium
Kathryn Guare, Member Resources, Global Health Council
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