Quality: Working at a Scale for Results and Impact
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Don Alberto | Track 1
Moderator: James Ricca, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program/Jhpiego
- The National Model Maternity Initiative in Mozambique
Quinhas Francisco Fernandes, Ministry of Health, Mozambique - Scaling Up Postpartum IUCD (PPIUCD) Services Across India while Ensuring Quality of Services
Bulbul Sood, Jhpiego - Improving Coverage of Newborn Vaccinations in India
Sebanti Ghosh, John Snow Inc. - Quality Assurance for the Scale-up in the Availability of Health Professionals Towards Improved Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia
Damtew Woldemariam, Jhpiego
Using Results Based Financing to Scale-up Changes for Maternal and Neonatal Health: What Have We Learned?
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Don Diego 4A | Track 3
Moderator: Wolfgang Munar, Washington University in St Louis
- Results-Based Financing to Improve Health Quality and Coverage in Hard-to-reach areas: The World Bank’s Experience in Africa
Dinesh Nair, World Bank - Results-based Aid: The Salud Mesoamérica 2015 (SM2015) Experience
Ferdinando Regalia, Inter-American Development Bank - Pursuing Universal and Effective Health Coverage through Results-Based Financing (RBF)
Martín Sabignoso, Ministry of Health, Argentina - The Role and Effect of Decentralization using Results-based Financing in Honduras
Sandra Pinel, Ministry of Health, Honduras
Using Data Visualization to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Don Diego 2 | Track 2
Moderator: Brian Smith, Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Why is Data Visualization Important in Post-2015 Agenda?
Allisyn Moran, USAID - High Resolution Mapping of Skilled Birth Attendance in East Africa
Cori Ruktanonchai, University of Southampton - Using GIS to Identify Health System and Infrastructure Changes to Improve Geographic Access to Routine and Emergency Obstetric Services in Mozambique
Emily Keyes, FHI360 - Mapping Mortality from Maternal Newborn Health Registry to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes in India
Narayan Honnungar, KLE University’s JN Medical College - Data Visualization as a Tool to Strengthen Data-based Decision Making and Communication of MNH Outcomes in Indonesia: Experiences from the Expanding Maternal and Neonatal Survival (EMAS) Program
Anne Hyre, Jhpiego - Scoping Review of GIS in Maternal Health
Peter Von Dadelszen, University of British Columbia
Maternal Newborn Health in Urban Settings
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Don Diego 3 | Track 3
Moderator: Lynn Freedman, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- Maternal and Neonatal Health in the Urban Slums of Bangladesh: Approaches of the Manoshi Program
Kaosar Afsana, BRAC - A Scoping of the Status of MNH for the Urban Poor
Shanon McNab, Averting Maternal Death and Disability, Columbia University - What Determines Trust in Maternity Care?: Cross-Perspective Findings from Peri-Urban Kenya
Pooja Sripad, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Realizing the Health and Well Being of Adolescents
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Don Diego 4B | Track 2
Moderator: Zoe Matthews, University of Southampton
- Health Challenges Faced by Adolescents Today
Laura Laski, UNFPA - Non Health Sector Interventions for Adolescents
Ariadna Capasso, Family Care International - Building a Monitoring and Accountability Framework for Adolescents
Matthews Mathai, World Health Organization
Gender Equity and Transformation for Improving Maternal Newborn Health
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Don Americo | Track 3
Moderator: Ann Starrs, Guttmacher Institute
- “Most Men Pretend to be Busy…” The Struggle for Male-Partner Involvement in Maternal and Child Health in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda
Primus Che Chi, Peace Research Institute Oslo - Baseline Findings from an RCT of a Gender-Transformative Program to Engage Men as Equitable and Involved Fathers in Maternal and Newborn Health in Rwanda
Ruti Levtov, Promundo-US - Addressing Gender Norms and Inequities to Improve Maternal and Child Health: Describing and Building on the Evidence Base for Gender-integrated Interventions
Myra Betron, Jhpiego
Innovative Approaches to Improve Maternal, Newborn and Child Nutrition
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Don Genaro | Track 1
Moderator: Azucena Bardají Alonso, ISGlobal
- Simple and Safe “100-dollar-kitchen” to Prevent Low-Birth-Weight in Rural Bangladesh: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Anisuddin Ahmed, icddr,b - The Power of Counseling: Changing Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Family Planning Practices in Dhamar, Yemen
Chelsea Cooper, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program/Jhpiego - Effectiveness of Timed and Targeted Counselling on Maternal, Newborn and child Health and Nutrition (MNCH/N) Outcomes in Palestine: Assessment of Intervention
Han’a Salim Al Rabadi, World Vision international
Improved Health Systems by Integrating Non-Communicable Diseases into Maternal Health Care
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Doña Socorro | Track 6
Moderator: Katja Iversen, Women Deliver
- Gestational Diabetes Management: Improving Maternal Health Outcomes in Nicaragua
Rebecca Firestone, Population Services International - Opportunities for Integrating Mental Health Care into Maternal Health Care Platforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joy Noel Baumgartner, FHI 360, Duke University - Estimating National Coverage for Magnesium Sulfate in Liberia: Results of a Novel Methodology
Blami Dao, Jhpiego
Maternal Mental Health: Critical Steps in Prevention, Prevalence, and Treatment
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Doña Adelita | Track 4
Moderator: Neena Khadka, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program
- Prevalence and Factors Associated with Depressive Symptoms among Post-Partum Mothers in Nepal
Resham Bahadur Khatri, Save the Children - Prevention of perinatal depression: Current status in Mexico
Asunción Lara, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz - Antenatal Psychological Distress and Birth Outcomes
Zia ud Din, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar - The Mothers and Babies Course: A Preventive Intervention of Perinatal Depression for Low Income Women in the United States
Huynh-Nhu Le, George Washington University
- Feasibility of Integrating Screening and Prevention of Perinatal Depression in Spain
María de la Fe Rodriguez, Spanish National Distance Education University, Spain - An Online Prevention Trial: Reaching Spanish and English Speaking Pregnant Women from Around the World
Alinne Barrera, Palo Alto University
Maternity Waiting Homes: Lessons Learned
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Don Emiliano | Track 3
Moderator: Charles Mwansambo, Ministry of Health, Malawi
- Developing Sustainable Maternity Homes in Zambia: Formative Research with Women, Communities, and Stakeholders in Luapula Province
Emma Williams, Jhpiego - Enhancing Skilled Deliveries through Maternal Shelter: Nachola Dispensary, Samburu County-Kenya
Fridah Mutea, International Medical Corps - Can High Quality Maternity Homes Facilitate Access to Facility Delivery in Zambia?
Nancy Scott, Boston University School of Public Health, Center for Global Health and Development
Commodities and Medicines: Improving Access and Availability
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Don Julian | Track 6
Moderator: Katherine Bliss CSIS Global Health Policy Center
- How can we save women and children without access to medicines? A country-level analysis of pharmaceutical systems and policies
Jane Briggs, Management Sciences for Health - Coaching to Increase Availability of Essential Birth Supplies for the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist in Uttar Pradesh, India
Grace Galvin, Ariadne Labs/ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Improving Access to Medicines for Mothers: Strengthening Procurement Systems at the Sub-National Level in Bangladesh
Javed Rahman, Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services
Engaging Traditional Birth Attendants: What is Appropriate
Tuesday, 13:30 – 14:30 | Doña Sol | Track 6
Moderator: Martina Baye, National Program for Combating Maternal, Newborn and Child Mortality in Cameroon
- Rebranding Traditional Birth Attendants to Improve Maternal and Neonatal Health Outcomes in Sierra Leone
Ashley Ambrose, Concern Worldwide - Promoting Collaboration Between Traditional and Modern Medicine Systems and Providers for Improved Delivery of Care and Services for Maternal and Child Care Programs in Rwanda
Didi Bertrand Farmer, Partners In Health/Inshuti u Buzima - “She is My Neighbor”: The Persistence of Traditional Birth Attendants in Poor Urban Areas of Cairo
Diana Perez Buck, Mothers at Risk