Human Rights and Gender Perspectives on Maternal and Perinatal Care: Progress and Challenges in Post-2015 Mexico
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Don Alberto | Track 1
Moderator: Pablo Kuri Morales, Secretariat of Health of Mexico
- Focused Perinatal and Maternal Health Action Program: The Continuum of Care from Pre-Pregnancy
Ricardo Juan García Cavazos, Secretariat of Health of Mexico - Effective Interventions in the Antenatal Period for Maternal and Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity Reduction
Raffaela Schiavon Ermani, Ipas - Gender and Interculturality: Social Determinants for Maternal Mortality Reduction
Amalia Elisa Ayala Montoya, Pan American Health Organization - Mexico’s National Breastfeeding Strategy 2015
Erika Paola Garcia Flores, Secretariat of Health of Mexico - The Impact of Perinatal Education on the Life Course: Focused Actions in Fetal Programming and Non-Communicable Disease Reduction
Rocio López Ortiz, National Institute of Perinatology - The Role of Contraception and Family Planning in reducing Maternal and Perinatal Mortality in Mexico
Javier Domínguez del Olmo, UNFPA
Postnatal Care: Reaching Newborn Infants and Mothers with Preventative and Curative Care
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Don Diego 1 | Track 4
Moderator: Kim Dickson, UNICEF
- Postnatal Care for Mother and Newborn: WHO Guidelines and Recommendations on Postnatal Care of the Mother and the Newborn
Bernadette Daelmans, World Health Organization - Understanding Inequities in Postnatal Care Services Utilization in Low- and Middle-income Countries
Etienne Langlois, World Health Organization - Postnatal Home Visits: Effective in Field Trials, What About in the Real World?
Robert McPherson, Independent Consultant - Facility Based Postnatal Care in Sri Lanka: Achievements and Challenges
Kapila Jayaratne, Family Health Bureau, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka - Reaching Newborns After Delivery: Lessons from Ethiopia Community-based Newborn Care Program
Lisanu Taddesse, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia - Community Health Workers Champion Postnatal Home Visits in Rwanda
Catherine Mugeni, Ministry of Health, Rwanda
Maternal Newborn Health and Sustainable Development: What Can We Learn from Women and Health?
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Don Diego 2 | Track 1
Moderator: Timothy Thomas, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Women and Health Approach: Why Is it Essential for Mothers and Newborns?
Ana Langer, Maternal Health Task Force, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - A Life Cycle Approach to Advance the Maternal and Newborn Health Agenda
France Donnay, Consultant, Women’s Health - Estimating the Financial Value of Women’s Contributions to Health Care: The Global Valuing the Invaluable Study
Felicia Marie Knaul, Miami Institute for the Americas, College of Arts and Sciences, and Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami; “Tomatelo a Pecho, A.C”; Fundacion Mexicana para la Salud - Midwives: Key Members of the Health Care Workforce
Frances Day-Stirk, International Confederation of Midwives
End Preventable Stillbirths: Identify, Prevent, Treat, and Care
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Don Diego 3 | Track 1
Moderator: Katie Taylor, USAID
- Where, When, Why And What is the Cost to Women, Families and Societies?
Hannah Blencowe, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Health Workforce and Stillbirths: Impact of Midwifery Care
Caroline Homer, University of Technology, Sydney - India Experience in Shifting Policy and Program Efforts; Focus on Intrapartum Interventions
Luc de Bernis, UNFPA - Experience from Zambia: Programming across the continuum to prevent stillbirths
Caroline Phiri, Zambia’s Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health - Experience from Nigeria: Rising the Voice of Parents and Communities
Felicity Adelayo, The Wellbeing Foundation - Experience from India: Shifting policy and programs
Anuradha Gupta, GAVI Alliance
The Role of Evaluations in Bridging Equities: Experiences from Latin America, Asia and Africa
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Don Diego 4 A | Track 3
Moderator: Yamini Atmavilas, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, India
- Applying Theory Driven Evaluation to Policy Redesign to Impact Maternal Health Inequities: Lessons from Chile
Orielle Solar, FLASCO - An Experiment on Building Evaluation Capacity to Address Maternal Health Inequities in China
Kun Zhao, China National Health Development and Research Center - Knowledge Translational Implications of the Contextual, Multilevel Nature of Maternal Health Inequities: How should interventions respond to such knowledge?
Sanjeev Sridharan, The Evaluation Centre for Complex Health Interventions - Evaluating the Contribution of Governance in Addressing Maternal and Child Health Inequities
Marie-Gloriose Ingabire, International Development Research Centre - The Utility of a Realist Evaluation Approach in Interrogating Implicit Assumptions of Maternal Health Interventions: Ensuring Equity and Human Rights of Marginalized Communities in Maternal Health Programming
Abhijit Das, Centre for Health and Social Justice - Applying Developmental Evaluation to Bring an Enhanced Equity Focus on Maternal Health Interventions
Arnab Dey, Sambodhi
Clinical Interventions for Newborn Health: Improving the Odds for Survival
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Don Diego 4 B | Track 1
Moderator: Gary Darmstadt, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Learning More About the N in EmONC Assessments: Newborn Resuscitation Findings Across 25 Countries
Malick Kante, Columbia University AMDD - The Validity of Neonatal Clinical Assessment by Frontline Bangladeshi Health Workers to Ascertain Gestational Age
Dipak Mitra, Johns Hopkins University - Country-Level Implementation of ‘Helping Babies Breathe’ Newborn Resuscitation Program: The Experience of Tanzania
Georgina Msemo, Department of Family and Reproductive Health/International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Piloting an Approach for Identifying Very Small Newborns Born at Home and Incorporating Targeted Messages and Support
Chudamani Bhandari, Child Health Division, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal - Implementation of bCPAP to Improve Neonatal Outcomes in Malawi: Interim Results
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice 360° Institute for Global Health Technologies
Impact of Family Planning on Maternal Newborn Health
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Don Americo | Track 4
Moderator: Anita Sharma, United Nations Foundation
- Exploring Women’s Experiences with Modern Contraceptives Prior to Induced Abortions: A Qualitative Study in Southern Ethiopia
Mahlet Atakilt Woldetsadik, Pardee RAND Graduate School and RAND Corporation - Integration of Postpartum Family Planning in to a Community-Based Maternal and Newborn Health Program in Bangladesh: Evidence on Impact on Contraceptive Use and Optimal Birth Spacing
Saifuddin Ahmed, Department of Family and Reproductive Health/International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Adapting the Reaching Every District (RED) Strategy in Reducing Unmet Need for Family Planning Among Disadvantaged Women in Mongolia
Shinetugs Bayanbileg, United Nations Population Fund - Reducing Maternal Mortality in Romania by Increasing Equitable Access and Use of Family Planning: An Update After Donors’ Withdrawal
Merce Gasco, JSI Research & Training Institute - Using Family Planning to Address Drivers of Mortality – Reaching Women Who Experience High Parity and Advanced Maternal Age Pregnancies
Maureen Norton, USAID - Benefits, Impacts and Requirement of Meeting National MNCH Targets in Nigeria
Chukwuemeka Nwachukwu, Futures Group International
Demand-Side Financing
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Don Genaro | Track 5
Moderator: Steve Wall, Saving Newborn Lives, Save the Children
- Efforts to Promote Equitable Financing Mechanisms in Support Of Maternal Health Programs by Removing Financial Barriers, Especially Direct Payments in Kano, Northern Nigeria
Yusuf Mohammed, College of Health Sciences, Bayero University - Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers and Free Provision of Maternal Health: Nepal’s Safe Delivery Incentive Program
Elina Pradhan, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Improving Maternal Health Outcomes in Uganda: Cost-Effectiveness of Reproductive Health Vouchers and Community-Based Health Insurance
Uzaib Saya, Management Sciences for Health - Is Cashless Delivery Boon or Bane? An Analysis of RMNCH Services in Odisha, India
Meena Som, UNICEF - Using Demand-Side Incentives in Chiapas to Improve Maternal and Neonatal Health
Ignez Tristao, Inter-American Development Bank - The Equity Impact of Targeting the Poorest in Performance Based Financing: A Qualitative Study
F.W.G.M. van de Looij, Cordaid
Community Health: Supporting Community Health Workers, Strengthening Systems
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Doña Socorro | Track 6
Moderator: Mohammod Shahidullah, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University
- Preventing Severe Bleeding After Childbirth Through Community Health Volunteers
Betty Fanuel Muze, World Vision, South Sudan Office - Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Community-Based Newborn Care
Kate Kerber, Save the Children - Assessing Community Health Worker Team Performance in Bushenyi District, Uganda: Evidence for Strengthening Supportive Supervision and Health Centre Linkages
Teralynn Ludwick, University of Alberta - Supporting Community Health Worker Systems to Improve the Care of Mothers and Newborns in 3 Countries in East Africa
Irene Mbugua, World Vision - A Sustainable Community Health Volunteer (CHV) Quality Assurance Innovation in Madagascar: The MIKOLO Model of On-Site Mentorship/Support by Tas and its Impact On CHV Performance
Hajamamy Rakotoarisoa, Management Sciences for Health
Scale-up of Kangaroo Mother Care: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Doña Adelita | Track 1
Moderator: Janna Patterson, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Lessons Learned Across Asia and Africa in Evaluating KMC Scale-up Using the Six Stages of Implementation
Anne-Marie Bergh, MRC Unit for Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies, University of Pretoria - Disseminating Kangaroo Mother Care Across Disciplinary, Cultural and Country Frontiers: Lessons from Different Settings
Nathalie Charpak, Kangaroo Foundation - Integration of Kangaroo Mother Care in Health Systems: a Systematic Review of Barriers and Enablers
Grace Chan, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health - Accelerating Scale-up of Kangaroo Mother Care—What’s Next for the KMC Acceleration Partnership?
Bina Valsangkar, Save the Children
Technology to Improve Coverage and Quality of Maternal Newborn Care
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Don Emiliano | Track 1
Moderator: Joel Segre, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Solutions on a Fast Track: Accelovate Design Challenge Model
Deepti Tanuku, Accelovate Program, Jhpiego - Impacto de reorganización de redes de atención y la notificación por TICs de mujeres con emergencia obstétrica, en la mortalidad materna en Morelos, México año 2014
Rosa Maria del Carmen Nuñez Urquiza, Secretariat of Health of Mexico - Leveraging the Potential of mHealth: The Impact of a Mobile Health System on the Quality, Coverage and Responsiveness of Community Health Workers to Support Healthy Pregnancies and Newborn Care
Anuraj Shankar, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and SUMMIT Institute of Development - SMSbunda; Leveraging Mobile Technology for Maternal and Child Health Education in Indonesia
Sushanty, Jhpiego - Access, Service Readiness, and Use of Facility-Based Delivery Care: A Spatial Analysis of Health Facility Data and Population Data in Haiti
Wenjuan Wang, ICF International
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Maternal and Newborn Health – Using What We Know to Accelerate Progress on WASH Access and Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Don Julian | Track 1
Moderator: Wendy Graham, University of Aberdeen
- The Impact of WASH on Maternal and Newborn Health: What Do We Know?
Oona Campbell, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Opportunities for Improvement: Lessons from the WASH & CLEAN Study in India and Bangladesh
Kranti Vora, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India - Starting Out Right: Building Improved Hygiene Practices into the Antenatal Platform
Merri Weinger, USAID - Driving Improvements in WASH in Healthcare Facilities in Cambodia: Facility-Level Assessments to National Level Change
Alison Macintyre, WaterAid Australia - Access to Water and Sanitation in Obstetric Facilities in 14 Western and Central African Countries: Review of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care Needs Assessments
Fabrice Fotso, UNICEF - Impact of Promoting Waterless Hand Cleansing with Chlorhexidine on Hand Cleansing Behavior during the Neonatal Period: Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial in rural Bangladesh
Pavani Ram, University at Buffalo
Programming for Maternal and Newborn Health during Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Epidemics and Conflict
Monday, 13:30–15:00 | Doña Sol | Track 6
Moderator: Emily Hillman, USAID
- The Effects of the Ebola Epidemic on Maternal Newborn Health – Experience from Sierra Leone
Paul Pronyk, UNICEF - Steps Taken to Maintain MNCH Services During the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Liberia
Rose Macauley, JSI Research and Training - Coordinating to Deliver Essential MNH Services in South Sudan
Victor Guma, USAID’s Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, Jhpiego - Turning Disaster into an Opportunity for Improving Maternal and Newborn Care Services in Philippines
Mariella Castillo, UNICEF - A SWOT Analysis of Helping Babies Breathe in Sudan: Emerging Challenges
Lisa McCarthy Clark, Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook University