Reimagining Maternal Newborn Health – Actions for the Unfinished Agenda
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Alberto | Track 1
Moderator: Jeffrey Smith, Jhpiego
- The Digital Horizon: How to Create the Digital Maternal Newborn Health Platform of the 21st Century
Harshad Sanghvi, Jhpiego - Understanding and Addressing Sepsis: The Neglected Cause of Maternal and Newborn Mortality
Vikas Yadav, Jhpiego - Maternal Co-infection: Beyond HIV, What Else Must Be Addressed to Reduce Maternal and Newborn Deaths
Stacie Stender, Jhpiego - Good Clinical Governance: The Foundation of High Quality MNH services
Dwirani Amelia, Budi Kemuliaan Health Institutes - Safe Surgery: How to Make Obstetric and Anesthesia Care Available Everywhere
Tigistu Adamu Ashengo, Jhpiego
What is the Local Private Health Sector and Can it Offer Quality Maternal Health Care?
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 4A | Track 6
Moderator: Priya Agrawal, Merck for Mothers
- Who Cares for Women and Their Newborns in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? The Role of the Private Sector in Provision of Family Planning, Antenatal, and Delivery Care
Lenka Benova, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Improving Quality of Maternal Health Services in Small Private Facilities through Social Franchising in Rural and Peri-Urban Uganda
Mariam Luyiga, PACE/PSI - Scaling Affordable Quality Care Through a Financially Sustainable Social Franchise in India
Abha Jha, Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust - Improving the Quality of Maternal Care in a Public-Private Network of Providers in Rural Uttar Pradesh, India
Mahesh Srinivas, Pathfinder International - A Quality Improvement Program for Maternal-Newborn Care Practices Around the Time of Birth for High Case Load Private Providers in India?
Somesh Kumar, Jhpiego
Accelerating Action for Adolescent Health: What Else Do We Need to Know?
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 2 | Track 1
Moderator: Giselle Carino, International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region
- The Global State of Adolescent Health
Laura Laski, UNFPA - Implementing Multifaceted and Cross-sectoral Policies for Improving Adolescent Health
Chipasha Iliamupu, YWCA Zambia - Ensuring Equity in Health Care
Cecilia Garcia Ruiz, Espolea - The Role of Youth in Promoting Accountability
Daniel Tobon Garcia, Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Colombia - Investing in Research
Judith Helzner, Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health Alliance
New Approaches for Persistent Problems: Improving Availability of Life-saving Commodities for Women and Babies
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 3 | Track 6
Moderator: Kabir Ahmed, UNFPA
- A Commodity Security Framework for Maternal Health
Merce Gasco, JSI Research & Training Institute - Increasing Access to Life-saving Commodities for Women and Newborns: Getting the Numbers Right!
Cyrille Massamba,Management Sciences for Health - Harmonizing Policies for Essential Maternal Health Medicines
Brahima Bassane, Family Care International - Improving the use of Maternal Health Commodities through Guideline Implementation in Low and Middle Income Countries
Dina Khan, World Health Organization - Overcoming Bottlenecks and Joining the Dots to Improve Access to Quality Magnesium Sulfate for Treatment of Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia in Nigeria
Salisu Ishaku, Population Council
Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP): A Multi-Partner Measurement Improvement Roadmap
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 4B | Track 2
Moderator: Suzanne Fournier, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
- Count Every Newborn: A Five-year Measurement Improvement Roadmap to Address Gaps in Tracking Impact, Coverage, and Quality of Care
Joy Lawn, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Counting Births, Stillbirths, and Neonatal Deaths: Improving Measurement through Surveillance Systems, Vital Registration and Verbal Autopsy Tools
Peter Waiswa, INDEPTH Network and Makarere School of Public Health - Counting Every Stillbirth and Neonatal Death: Perinatal Audit Tools and Implementation for Improving Quality of Care Linked to Maternal Death Surveillance and Response
Kate Kerber, Saving Newborn Lives, Save the Children - Care for All Mothers and Newborns: Measuring Coverage and Content of Care
Agbessi Amouzou, UNICEF - Care for Newborns with Specific Interventions: Validating Coverage Metrics with a Focus on Facility-based Health Management Information Systems
Sarah Moxon, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Highly-Realistic, In-situ Simulation and Team Training Programs for Obstetric and Neonatal Emergencies Worldwide: It’s About More than Managing the Emergency
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Americo | Track 1
Moderator: Dilys Walker, PRONTO International and University of California San Francisco
- Implementing Adaptable Low-resource, Highly-realistic, In-situ Simulation and Team Training Programs Worldwide to Improve Quality of Care: Benefits, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from the PRONTO Experience in Mexico, Kenya, and India
Onesmus Gachuno, University of Nairobi - PRONTO Training Impact on Perinatal Mortality and Cesarean Section Rates in Mexico
Hector Lamadrid-Figueroa, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico - Creating a Culture of Change: Adapting the PRONTO Simulation and Team Training Program for Provider Training in Culturally Relevant, Kind, and Respectful Maternity Care
Julia Dettinger, PRONTO, UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research, Department of Global Health - Training Driven, Facility-based Procurement of Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmONC) Commodities in Western Kenya: PRONTO’s Strategic Planning Program
Stephen Kamau, University of Washington Kenya, PRONTO - Using the PRONTO Simulation Training Model to Strengthen Mobile Midwife Mentor Competency and to Introduce Simulation and Team-training Skills to Improve Quality of Care in Bihar, India
Dilys Walker, PRONTO International and University of California San Francisco Medicine
Supporting Midwives through Education, Mentoring and Partnerships
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Genaro | Track 6
Moderator: Luc de Bernis, UNFPA
- Midwifery – A Crucial Solution for Women and Newborn: The Evidence
Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Independent Consultant on Women’s Health and Development - Midwifery – A Crucial Solution for Women and Newborn:The Implementation
Frances Ganges, International Confederation of Midwives - Midwifery – A Crucial Solution for Women and Newborn: The Advocacy Approach
Anna Hällerman , Swedish Embassy in Mexico City - How Well Does Pre-service Education Enable Midwives to Provide Quality Care: Assessment of Competence of Midwifery Students at the Level of Graduation in Ethiopia
Tegbar Yigzaw, Jhpiego - The Afghan Midwives Association: Mentoring Midwives in Remote Areas to Improve Maternal and Newborn Care
Sheena Currie, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program/Jhpiego - Midwife and Traditional Birth Attendant Partnerships in Aceh Singkil, Indonesia
Kate Walton, Kinerja-USAID
Applying Human Rights Based Approaches to Preventing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity: Strategies, Challenges and Lessons from Civil Society Experiences in Four Countries
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Doña Socorro | Track 2
Moderator: Alicia Ely Yamin, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
- Overview of the OHCHR Technical Guidance on Rights-based Approaches for Maternal Mortality Prevention
Manuela Garza, IIMMHR - Applying Rights-based Approaches with Midwife Training: Experiences from South Africa
Busisiwe Kunene, Society of Midwives South Africa - Rights Based Approaches and Social Accountability: Citizen Monitoring by Indigenous Women in Peru
Ariel Frisancho, Catholic Medical Mission Board / ForoSalud - Human Rights Budgeting for Social Inclusion and Reproductive Rights: Parliamentary Advocacy in India
Jashodhara Dasgupta, SAHAYOG - Negotiating Provider Resistance to Rights Based Approaches in Mexico
Valentina Zendejas, Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir
Strengthening Midwifery in Mexico
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Doña Adelita | Track 3
Moderator: Paloma Bonfil, Interdisciplinary Group on Women, Work and Poverty
- Midwifery as an Opportunity for Accelerating Change and Catalyzing Impact: Donor Interests
Sharon Bissell, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - Reorienting and Training Obstetric Nurses for Service in Midwifery in Mexico
Hilda Reyes, Centro Nacional de Equidad de Genero y Salud Reproductiva - Using SOWMY as a Tool for Strengthening Midwifery at the Country Level
Raffaela Schiavon Ermani, Comite por una maternidad sin riesgos en México - Country-level Designs for Planning Midwifery Workforce Expansion at the State Level
Javier Dominguez, UNFPA
Iatrogenic Fistula: New Landscape, Emerging Challenges Confront Fistula Care Programs
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Emiliano | Track 4
Moderator: Lauri Romanzi, EngenderHealth
- Iatrogenic Genitourinary Fistulas: An 18 -year Retrospective Review
Thomas Raassen, Independent Consultant - Female Genital Fistula: Changing Etiologic Landscape and Policy Implications for Bangladesh
SK Nazmul Huda, EngenderHealth - Les Fistules Obstetricales Iatrogene: Etude Descriptive Des Lesions Anatomiques et Des Manoeuvres Obstetricales Associees
Dolores Nembunzu, Hopital Saint Joseph Kinshasa - Contribution of Iatrogenic Cause to Female Genital Fistula Burden in a New Classification System
Sanda Ganda, Hopital National de Lamorde Niamey
Nutrition Across the Continuum of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Julian | Track 4
Moderator: Seth Cochran, Operation Fistula
- Demand or Supply: What is the Limiting Factor to the Success of Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation?
Asri Adisamita, University of Indonesia - Addressing Challenges to Immediate and Exclusive Breastfeeding in the First Months of Life – Findings from Egypt
Justine Kavle, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program/ PATH - Monitoring Mothers Support Groups to Improve the Quality of Support for Breastfeeding
Betty Samburu, Kenya Ministry of Health - Achieving Coverage and Compliance of Antenatal Calcium Supplementation for Prevention of Pre-eclampsia – Findings from Nepal
Kusum Thapa, Jhpiego
Improving Access and Quality of Safe Abortion Services: Global Lessons and Questions
Tuesday, 11:00-12:30 | Doña Sol | Track 3
Moderator: Rasha Dabash, Gynuity
- Incidence of Abortion Among Adolescents, Worldwide: Levels and Recent Trends
Ann Starrs, Guttmacher Institute - Experience on the Provision of Safe Abortion Services in the Context of Mexico City, Following the Legalization of the Procedure
Patricio Sanhueza, Ministry of Health, Mexico City - Implementing Guidelines in Uganda: Creating Standards to Address Unsafe Abortions
Collins Tusingwire, Ministry of Health, Uganda - Clients’ Perspectives on Quality of Abortion Services in Specific Rural Areas in Nepal
Swadesh Gurung, Ipas - A Decade of Change in Safe Abortion Services in Ethiopia: Results of a national assessment in 2008 and 2014
Sally Dijkerman, Ipas