Innovations in Maternal and Newborn Health: Scaling up to Reach Every Mother and Every Newborn
Monday, 11:00–12:30 | Don Alberto | Track 1
Moderator: Geeta Rao Gupta, UNICEF
- Using “Premature Baby Weeks” in Argentina to Establish Prematurity as a Health Problem and Encourage Community Demand for the Rights of Preterm Infants
Zulma Ortiz, UNICEF - Real Time Online Monitoring System for Newborns in India: Measuring for Accountability and Action
Gagan Gupta, UNICEF - Birth Cushions and Solar Suitcases: Culturally Acceptable and Practical Innovations to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health in Hard-to-Reach Areas of the Karamoja Region, Uganda
Neelam Bhardwaj , UNICEF - Measuring the Impact of Mama Kits on Institutional Delivery Rates in Rural Chadiza and Serenje, Zambia
Lastone Chitembo, UNICEF
Access to Maternal Newborn Care: Improving Quality, Improving Outcomes
Monday, 11:00–12:30 | Don Diego 1 | Track 6
Moderator: Jerker Liljestrand, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Improving Access to Maternal and Newborn Health Services While Strengthening Health Systems: Why mHealth Should be Part of the Solution
Jean Christophe Fotso, Concern Worldwide - Improving Access to And Quality of Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care in Cotopaxi, Ecuador: A Controlled, Prospective Evaluation
Jorge Hermida, University Research Co., LLC - Access to Maternal Services in Developing Countries: Are We Ready to Meet the Demand? Lessons from MANIFEST Project Implementation
Rornald Kananura, Makerere University School of Public Health - Scaling Up Maternity Referral Systems in Three Cities Of Maharashtra, India, to Promote Access to Quality Health Services for Poor Urban Communities
Sweety Pathak, Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action - Preventing Maternal Mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Effect of the Organizational Model Of Health Care
Abel Ntambue Mukengeshayi, University of Lubumbashi School of Public Health
Leveraging Mobile Technology to Strengthen Demand for Maternal and Child Health Services
Monday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 2 | Track 5
Moderator: Alice Lin Fabiano, Johnson & Johnson
- MAMA’s Research Agenda: Prioritizing Clinical Services Data and Biological Markers to Explore MAMA’s Effect on Demand Generation
Kirsten Gagnaire, MAMA - Supporting Demand Generation Through Mobile Messaging in Nigeria
Camille Collins Lovell, Pathfinder International - mMitra – Going Beyond Awareness and Assessing Demand for Maternal and Infant Health Services in Mumbai
Aparna Hegde, MAMA India/ ARMMAN - What is the Minimum Exposure to Mobile Messaging Needed to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Knowledge, Practices and Demand for Services in Bangladesh?
Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, icddr,b/ MAMA Bangladesh - MomConnect: The Potential of a National mHealth Program for Pregnant Women to Unlock Improvements in Maternal and Infant Health
Peter Barron School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Integrating Care to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health
Monday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 3 | Track 4
Moderator: Deborah Armbruster, USAID
- System level Integration of Mother-Baby Services to Eliminate Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: The Missing Link
Isaac Chome Mwamuye, USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project, University Research Co., LLC - Humanizing and Transforming Maternal and Neonatal Care in Mozambique-the Model Maternity Initiative
Maria da Luz Vaz, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program • Jhpiego - Integration of Care for Mothers and Babies Immediately After Birth to Prevent and Manage PPH and Birth Asphyxia: A Facility Based Approach to Improving Care
Cherrie Evans, Jhpiego - Strategies to Improve HIV–Family Planning Programmatic Linkages for Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancies Among Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Mumbai, India
Beena Joshi, NIRRH, ICMR - Acceptability and Applicability of Simplified Case Sheets in Improving the Quality of Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare in Primary Health Centers of Northern Karnataka, India
Swaroop N, Karnataka Health Promotion Trust - Closing the Gaps: Improving Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Through Building an Integrated Referral System in Vast Rural Areas
Natalia Vartapetova, JSI Research & Training Institute
Clinical Interventions for Maternal Health: From Policy to Practice
Monday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 4 | Track 1
Moderator: Ernesto Castelazo, FIGO
- Accuracy and Use of WHO Hemoglobin Color Scale for Diagnosis of Anemia Among Pregnant Women by Health Care Providers in Peri-Urban Settings in Karachi, Pakistan
Adeel Ahmed Khan, Aga Khan University - Affordable and Accurate Anemia Monitoring in Maternal Health
Toby Basey-Fisher, Eva Diagnostics - Comparison of Sublingual Misoprostol with Manual Vacuum Aspiration in the Treatment of Incomplete Abortion in Enugu, South-east Nigeria: A Randomized Controlled Study
Cyril Dim, College of Medicine University of Nigeria - Translating Global Policies into Country Action: Magnesium Sulfate Country Case Studies
Deepti Tanuku, Accelovate Program, Jhpiego - Improving PE/E care across the continuum
Peter Von Dadelszen, University of British Columbia
Supervision and Mentoring to Improve Clinical Care
Monday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Americo | Track 6
Moderator: William Keenan, St. Louis University School of Medicine
- Adherence to Essential Practices Following Strategic Skills Building and Onsite Structured Mentoring in Labor Rooms, Maharashtra, India
Bijali Sinha, Jhpiego - Supportive Supervision, Clinical Mentoring and Continuing Medical Education for Non-Physician Clinicians Providing Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care in Three Regions of Tanzania
Sunday Dominico, World Lung Foundation - Facility-Facility Mentoring to Drive Sustainable Quality Improvements in Health Facilities
Anne Hyre, Jhpiego - Translating Knowledge and Skill Into Practice. A Case-Study on Supportive Supervision for Community Based Service Delivery in Rural South Sudan
Alfonso Rosales, World Vision - What Makes Supportive Supervision Effective? Drivers Of Quality Improvement in Difficult Contexts
Dora Ward Curry, CARE-USA
Demanding Accountability for Quality Maternal and Newborn Health Services: Lessons and Best Practices
Monday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Genaro | Track 5
Moderator: Betsy McCallon, White Ribbon Alliance
- Prioritizing Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Tanzania
Rose Mlay, White Ribbon Alliance Tanzania and E4A - Increasing Accountability for Provision of Respectful Maternity Care in Nepal
Sunil Shrestha, Safe Motherhood Network Federation Nepal - Prioritizing Emergency Obstetric and Newborn care in Uganda
Robina Biteyi, White Ribbon Alliance Uganda - Prioritizing citizens Demand to Improve Quality of Care in India
Aparajita Gogoi, Centre for Catalyzing Change/WRA India
Scaling up Access to Misoprostol at the Community Level to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes: Case Studies from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Nigeria
Monday, 11:00-12:30 | Doña Socorro | Track 1
Moderator: Francine Coeytaux, Public Health Institute
- A Continuum of Care Model in Ghana
Esther Azasi, Public Health Institute - An Innovative Approach in Ethiopia
Takele Geressu, Public Health Institute - Public and Private Sector Approaches in Nigeria
Sada Danmusa, The Palladium Group, Nigeria - Findings from an Evaluation of Four Models of Community-Based Distribution of Misoprostol for Postpartum Hemorrhage
Elisa Wells, Public Health Institute
Antenatal Immunization for Mother and Newborn
Monday, 11:00-12:30 | Doña Adelita | Track 1
Moderator: Elizabeth Mason, Institute for Global Health, University College London
- Overview of Maternal Immunization: Benefitting Mothers and Their Infants
Jan Englund, Seattle Children’s Hospital - Taking MI from Global Policy to Implementation at the Country Level: The PAHO Experience
Alba Maria Ropero, Pan-American Health Organization - Programmatic Challenges at the Country Level: What Do We Learn from the MNTE Program?
Nina Schwalbe, UNICEF - Maternal Immunizations: A Core Component of a Lifecycle Approach to Girl’s and Women’s Health
Ana Langer, Maternal Health Task Force, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Critical Elements for Successful Introduction and Scale of Chlorhexidine for Umbilical Cord Care
Monday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Emiliano | Track 1
Moderator: Patricia Coffey, PATH
- Scaling Chlorhexidine for Umbilical Cord Care in the Decentralized Health System in Pakistan
Hassan Murad Shah, Department of Health, Government of Sindh - The Role of the Essential Medicines List and Quantification in Scaling Chlorhexidine for Umbilical Cord Care in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ngeleka Daniel, Direction de la Pharmacie et du Médicament, Ministry of Health, RD Congo - Nepal’s Chlorhexidine Cord (Navi) Care Program (CNCP): Institutionalization and Maintaining Coverage
Leela Khanal, JSI/Chlorhexidine Navi Care Program - Establishing a Quality-Assured Supply of Chlorhexidine for Umbilical Cord Care through Local Production
Mutsumi Metzler, PATH - Saving the Pair: Integrated Scale-up of Chlorhexidine and Misoprostol for Newborns and Mothers in Rural Madagascar
Echah Mady, John Snow, Inc. - Introduction de la Chlorhexidine Digluconate 7,1% dans les Soins Ombilicaux en République démocratique du Congo
Cyrille Massamba, Management Sciences for Health
Breastfeeding: New Evidence About Models, Patterns, and Practice
Monday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Julian| Track 6
Moderator: Susan Otchere, World Vision Inc
- Lactation Management in Nepal, a Scalable Model for Increasing Early and Exclusive Breastfeeding
Silvia Alayon, Suaahara - Video: A Teaching Tool to Improve Exclusive Breastfeeding Rates?
Peter Cardellichio, Global Health Media Project - The Association Between Post Natal Care and Newborn Feeding Practices in 14 sub-Saharan African Countries
Shane M Khan, UNICEF - Early to Breast, Early to Thrive: Promoting Breastfeeding in Democratic Republic of Congo
Matthieu Koy, Management Sciences for Health - Patterns in Pre-Lacteal Feeding among Mothers in Urban Cambodia, Nepal, Senegal and Tanzania
Mary Champeny, Helen Keller International
Women’s Groups Working Together to Save Newborn Lives and Improve Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
Monday, 11:00-12:30 | Doña Sol | Track 5
Moderator: Dipa Nag Chowdhury, MacArthur Foundation
- The Long-term Impact of Community Mobilization through Women’s Groups on Child Growth in Rural Bangladesh
Naveed Ahmed, Diabetic Association of Bangladesh Perinatal Care Project - Community-Linked Maternal Death Review to Measure and Prevent Maternal Mortality: A Pilot Study in Rural Malawi
Tim Colbourn, UCL Institute for Global Health - The Equity Impact of Community Women’s Groups to Reduce Neonatal Mortality: A Meta-Analysis of Four Cluster Randomized Trials
Kishwar Azad, Diabetic Association of Bangladesh Perinatal Care Project - Improving the Health of Pregnant Women and Children in Ntcheu District, Malawi
Mikey Rosato, Women and Children First UK - Improving Maternal and Newborn Health through Participatory Learning and Action Facilitated through Accredited Social Health Activists in Eastern India: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Shibanand Rath, Ekjut