Using Data to Improve Health System Capacity to Respond to Maternal and Neonatal Health Challenges
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 1 | Track 6
Moderator: Vishwajeet Kumar, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Data Driving Changes: SM2015 Experience Using Innovative Tools to Reduce the Equity Gap
Ali Mokdad, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Department of Global Health at the University of Washington - Social Network Targeting for Health Behavior Change at Scale in Mesoamerica
Derek Stafford, Yale University Social Network Honduras Program - Increasing Health Systems’ Capacity for Policy Analysis and Response to Neonatal and Maternal Survival Challenges through the Use of System Thinking Tools
Peter Hovmand, Washington University in St Louis - Early-Warning Systems to Monitor Progress in Health System Performance in Mesoamerica: Leveraging Routine Health Information Systems
Jennifer Nelson, Inter-American Development Bank - The Stories that Numbers Tell: Using Narratives to Improve Programmatic Performance
Robert Hausmann, University of Houston
Delivering More for Mothers and Newborns on the Day of Birth
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 2 | Track 1
Moderator: Anita Gibson, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program, Save the Children
- The Opportunity and the Challenge: Delivering More for Mothers and Newborns on the Day of Birth
Koki Agarwal, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program, Jhpiego - Strengthening Essential Newborn Care in Bangladesh
Ishtiaq Mannan, USAID’s Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, Save the Children - Preventing Maternal and Neonatal Deaths through Integrated MNH Services Focused on Day of Birth in Five Districts of Sindh, Pakistan
Farhana Shahid, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program/Jhpiego - Improving a Minimum Package of Services for Mothers and Newborns on the Day of Birth in Tanzania: Challenges and Opportunities
Dunstan Bishanga, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program, Jhpiego
Innovative and Collaborative Regional Response to Improved Newborn Surveillance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 3 | Track 2
Moderator: Jorge Hermida, University Research Co., LLC
- Regional Task Force on Maternal Mortality Reduction and Neonatal Alliance Collaborative Monitoring Tool for Mortality Surveillance
Alma Virginia Camacho-Hübner, UNFPA - Surveillance of Fetal and Child Mortality in Brazil
Juan José Cortez-Escalante, Pan-American Health Organization, World Health Organization - Epidemiological Surveillance of Fetal and Neonatal Mortality in Peru
Jeannette Avila Vargas-Machuca, Ministry of Health of Peru - A Regional Approach to Standardize Neonatal Deaths Surveillance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Goldy Mazia, Steering Committee Member of the LAC Neonatal Alliance / Newborn Advisor, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program
Differentials in the Utilization and Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care: Uncovering Inequities
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Diego 4 | Track 3
Moderator: Mary Ellen Stanton, USAID
- Power Asymmetry at the Point of Childbirth Care: A Potential Driver of Disrespect and Abuse
Kate Ramsey, Columbia University AMDD - Inequities in Continuum of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Healthcare Services Utilization in Rural Districts of Ethiopia
Ali Karim, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. - Experiences and Perceptions of Disrespect and Abuse in the Western Highlands of Guatemala: Who is Most Vulnerable?
Emily Peca, URC, LLC - Provider Barriers to and Women’s Perceptions of Respectful Maternity Care in a Refugee Camp Setting in Thailand
Heather Buesseler, American Refugee Committee - Disrespect and Abuse: Do Poor Kenyan Women Suffer More?
Charlotte Warren, Population Council
Know your Epidemiology and Respond Accordingly: Addressing HIV, TB and Malaria to Ensure Healthy Pregnancy
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Americo | Track 6
Moderator: Emmanuel Otolorin, Jhpiego
- Maternal and Neonatal Mortality: Are We Tackling All the Main Causes?
Clara Menendez, ISGlobal (Barcelona Institute for Global Health) - Integrating Antiretroviral Therapy into MNCH: Antenatal and Postpartum Care in the Option B+ Era
Tigistu Adamu Ashengo, Jhpiego - The Intersection Between Tuberculosis and Maternal and Newborn Health
Charlotte Colvin, USAID - Addressing Malaria in Pregnancy: Improving the Odds for Mothers and Newborns
Mary Nell Wegner, Maternal Health Task Force, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health - Primary Care of the Pregnant Woman in High Burden Infectious Disease Settings: The Kenya Example
Mildred Mudany, Jhpiego
Quality of Facility-Based Maternal and Newborn Care: Development and Application of Improved Metrics, Tools and Analyses
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Genaro | Track 2
Moderator: Barbara Rawlins, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program, Jhpiego
- An Update on the Status of Assisted Vaginal Delivery in Lower and Middle Income Countries
Patsy Bailey, FHI 360 & Averting Maternal Death & Disability - Effects of a Quality Improvement Program on Antenatal Care in 12 Regions of Tanzania
Scholastica Chibehe, Jhpiego - Development and Validation of Short Indices to Measure the Quality of Labor and Delivery Care Processes in sub-Saharan Africa
Vandana Tripathi, EngenderHealth - Availability of Maternal Newborn and Child Health Quality of Care Indicators in Faith Based Hospitals in Africa and Asia
Matthews Mathai, World Health Organization
Equitable Coverage: Supporting Those Most Vulnerable
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Doña Socorro | Track 3
Moderator: Claudia Morissey Conlon, USAID
- Trends in Use of Maternity Care in India: Growing Disparity Across Different Ethnic Groups
Abhishek Kumar, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai - Factors Influencing Utilization of Antenatal Care and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Services among Nomadic Women
Umakaltume Abubakar, Nigerian Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program - The Timing of Antenatal Care: Implications for Equity in the Provision of Quality Care
Hannah Tappis, Jhpiego - Strengthening Demand and Access to Healthcare with Focus on the Most Vulnerable
Adeodata Kekitiinwa, Baylor Children’s Clinical Center of Excellence, Uganda - Sub-Saharan Africa’s Progress towards MDGs 4 & 5: Do Changes in Coverage of Maternal and Child Health Interventions Enlarge or Lessen the Equity Gap?
Jean Christophe Fotso, Concern Worldwide
Group-based Antenatal Care and Counseling for Improving Maternal and Newborn Outcomes
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Doña Adelita | Track 1
Moderator: Beata Mukarugwiro, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program/Jhpiego
- The Effect of Prenatal Community Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) Family Meetings on Type of Birth Attendant and Completeness of Maternal and Newborn Care Received During Birth and the Early Postnatal Period in Rural Ethiopia
Aynalem Hailemichael, Emory University / Ethiopia, Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia Partnership - Adapting the CenteringPregnancy Model Globally: Challenges and Outcomes
Carrie Klima, University of Illinois Chicago - New Avenues to Increase the Quality of Antenatal Care in Ghana
Jody Lori, University of Michigan - Group Antenatal Care: The Power of Peers for Increasing Institutional Birth in Achham, Nepal
Sheela Maru, Possible Health and Boston Medical Center
Audit Systems for Maternal Newborn Health: Informing and Improving Practice
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Emiliano | Track 2
Moderator: Rakesh Kumar, JS RMNCHA
- Innovative Software Solution to Fast Track Maternal Death Review (MDR) – Lessons from India
Dhawal Naik, Avni Health Foundation - Dead Women Talking: Community Led Social Autopsies of Maternal Deaths
Subha Sri B, CommonHealth - Strengthening the Health System in Ethiopia through Maternal Death Surveillance and Response
Ephrem Tekle Lemango, Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia - Perinatal Mortality: WHO Application of ICD 10 to Perinatal Deaths
Özge Tunçalp, World Health Organization
Advocacy and Communications for Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health: Making the Case, Rallying Support, and Catalyzing Action
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Don Julian | Track 1
Moderator: Lori McDougall, The Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health
- How Innovative Communications and Advocacy Efforts Got Maternal Health Back on the Political Agenda and Will Help Accelerate Progress
Katja Iversen, Women Deliver - Bringing Together a Global Advocacy Movement for Women and Children
Nana Taona Kuo, Every Woman Every Child, Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General - Elevating Adolescents Needs in the New Global Strategy
Cecilia García Ruiz, Espolea
Provider Experiences in Task Shifting and Performance-based Incentives Programs: Implementation Research on the Implications for Motivation, Retention and Quality of Maternal and Neonatal Care
Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 | Doña Sol | Track 6
Moderator: Kathleen Hill | USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program, Jhpiego
- Carrots and Sticks?! Health Workers’ Perspectives on Performance-based Incentives – Findings from a Mixed-methods Study in Malawi
Julia Lohmann, Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg - Study of Provider Reaction to Incentives for Quality in Performance-Based Incentives Program in Senegal
April Williamson, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program, Results for Development - Task Shifting: Good for Women but What About the Providers?
Shanon McNab, Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University - Task Shifting of C-Sections in Malawi: Health Worker Experiences and Perceptions
Frank Taulo, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Centre for Reproductive Health