08:30AM-9:00AM
WELCOME SESSION
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SPEAKERS:
9:00AM-9:30AM
PS01: PLENARY SESSION
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OPENING KETNOTE
9:30AM-10:45AM
PS02: PLENARY SESSION
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DISPARITIES
10:45AM-11:15AM
HEALTH BREAK, EXHIBITS, NETWORK
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11:15AM-12:45PM
CS01: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Strengthening Health Systems and Public Institutions for Humanitarian Crises: Health Workforce and Governance
Crises are unplanned, ubiquitous and unpredictable in duration. Some are insidious, yet precipitate complex public epidemics. The global community witnessed a litany of crises: communicable diseases, including the Ebola outbreak and Zika; conflicts; war, genocide; starvation; mass migration; natural disasters, and substance misuse/opioid epidemic, each inadequately staffed and lacked resources. Health workers, first to respond, last to depart, need to be sufficient in number, technically skilled, and protected. The Expert Group report to the Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth (HEEG) lists humanitarian crises among their ten recommendations (Horton, et al 2016), which serves as a governance framework. This arm-chair style session focuses on building the health workforce, improving global and local governance, strengthening health systems and public institutions and managing humanitarian crises.
Moderator:
Marilyn A DeLuca, PhD, Associate Professor, Rory Meyers College of Nursing; Assistant Professor, School of Medicine New York University; Founder & Consultant, Global Health-Health Systems-Philanthropy, USA
Speakers:
Lisa Meadowcroft, MA, Executive Director, ALIMA USA
Nadia M Cobb, Associate Professor, Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Director, Office for Promotion of Global Healthcare Equity, University of Utah
Juan Carlos Negrette, MBA, Director, Global Health Program, University of Utah
Marilyn A DeLuca, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Rory Meyers College of Nursing; Assistant Professor, School of Medicine New York University; Founder & Consultant, Global Health-Health Systems-Philanthropy
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CS02: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Confronting Water-and Climate Change Related Health Disparities in the Caribbean
Water, a health-, economic-, transportation- and ecosystem resource profoundly impacts health. This panel focuses on the interconnectedness of water insecurity and health disparities in the Caribbean region. A joint assessment of regional priority environmental health threats facing 18 million, predominantly health disparate Caribbean racial and ethnic minorities are water contamination, air quality, climate change, and a lack of EOH policies. This panel will feature four presentations: 1) the severity, burden of disease, and impact on wellbeing of water insecurity; 2) Ecosystem damage by mercury (Hg), a signature neurotoxicant associated with goldmining and climate change; 3) the impact of Hg exposure through contaminate seafood on vulnerable subpopulations especially during pregnancy ad early neurodevelopment; and 4) the disproportionate consequences of climate change especially on vulnerable communities.
Moderator:
Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, USA
Speakers:
Dr. C. James Hospedales, Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency, Trinidad & Tobago
Paul Ouboter, PhD, Adjunct professor in the Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, USA
Jeffrey K. Wickliffe, M.S., Ph.D is an environmental toxicologist, health risk assessor, and associate professor of environmental health sciences at Tulane University, USA
Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, USA
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CS03: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Supporting Existing and Emerging Women Leaders in Global Health
Women carry a disproportionate burden of disease, comprise a large portion of the global health workforce, and in many leading universities, are the majority of students studying global health. Yet, among the top 50 universities in the USA, women hold just over a third of global health faculty positions and a quarter of directorships in global health centers. In the World Health Assembly women hold only about a quarter of leadership positions, despite comprising almost 75% of the health workforce in some countries. The purpose of this session is the explore the challenges faced by women in global health, and opportunities available and necessary to cultivate more women in leadership roles. This panel discussion will call for the advancement of women leaders at all levels of global health activity and to translate leadership intent into everyday actions—in communities, academia, non-profit organisations, scientific societies, boardrooms, and government.
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CS04: CONCURRENT SESSION
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NIH Fogarty International Center Pathways to Global Health Research Careers: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Since 2004, the Fogarty International Center, with partners at the National Institutes of Health, have supported global health research training for over 1,000 U.S. trainees. The current Global Health Fellows and Scholars Program supports six consortia of U.S. academic institutions to provide mentored research training opportunities at international partner institutions in developing countries with robust clinical research programs. Each consortium includes four U.S. academic institutions and their respective international partner institutions, and offers global health research training in communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health and One Health. The program is open to U.S. and LMIC pre- and postdoctoral trainees from all health-related disciplines. Alumni of the three programs will discuss their research and training experiences, as well as their career paths.
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CS05: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Social Entrepreneurship for Health
Social entrepreneurship uses innovation, market orientation, and systems change to drive impact. Social entrepreneurship encompasses a range of tools that can be used to promote health and well-being. For example, the group Riders for Health manage transportation systems for the delivery of health care in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The program generates revenues that are re-invested to expand the model. This program has filled a key need in the health system and built capacity for health service delivery. The symposium will focus on implementing and evaluating social entrepreneurship projects for health. This symposium will introduce the concept of social entrepreneurship for health, explaining both the pitfalls and opportunities of this approach.
Moderator: TBD
Speakers: TBD
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CS06: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Oral Abstract Presentations, ABSTRACTS 1
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CS07: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Oral Abstract Presentations, ABSTRACTS 2
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CS08: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Oral Abstract Presentations, ABSTRACTS 3
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12:45PM-2:30PM
LUNCH BREAK
Poster (01:00-2:30pm), Exhibits, Network
01:00PM-2:30PM
POSTER ABSTRACT PRESNTATIONS
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02:30PM-4:00PM
PS03: PLENARY SESSION
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AGING
Modertaor: Linda Fried, MD, MPH, Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health and DeLamar, USA
Speakers:
Isabella Aboderin (African Health Pop & Health Institute, Nairobi)
Harvey Brenner (UTHSC)
Luis-Miguel Gutierrez (Instituto Nacional de Geriatria Mexico City, Districto Federal, Mx)
04:30PM-4:30PM
COFFEE BREAK, EXHIBITS, NETWORK
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04:30PM-6:00PM
CS09: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Implementation of Cervical Cancer Screening in Low Resource Settings
Early detection and treatment of cervical cancer is critical to address the unacceptably high morbidity and mortality in low and middle income countries. Self-testing for HPV is cost effective and feasible in many low resource areas that have low screening rates and subsequent high incidence of late-stage cervical cancer. This panel will discuss strategies for the implementation of cervical cancer self-screening in low resource settings as well as how to address barriers to screening in diverse populations. The panel speakers represent experience in screening implementation in diverse settings that require innovative screening approaches.
Moderator:
Dr. Laura Rozek, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, USA
Speakers:
Mesrach Ayalew Kebede is a Research Investigator and Lecturer in Public Health at St. Paul's Hospital Millennial Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Rafael Meza is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Global Public Health Faculty Associate at the University of Michigan School of Public Health
Gloria I. Sanchez is an Associate professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia and leader of the research group Infection and Cancer
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CS10: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Health and Armed Conflicts: Perspectives on a Global Challenge
The panel explores the global health challenges resulting from armed conflicts, focusing on MENA, and the importance of global south-based work. The first theme, building on research of The Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria, explores the implications of the Syria and new armed conflicts for global health. Panelists discuss how internationalized conflicts and their consequences challenge global health academia, policy and practice but also open new spaces for research, mobilization, accountability, and collaborations.The second theme builds on the work of the conflict medicine program at AUB GHI in responding to the changing ecologies of war and the interdisciplinary efforts of medical and social science research in shaping our understanding of a range of global health problems, including the emergence of antimicrobial resistance, cancer, and the therapeutic geographies of care across the region.
Moderator:
Iman Nuwayhid is a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon
Shadi Saleh, PhD, MPH. Founding Director of the Global Health Institute, Associate Vice President for Health Affairs, Professor of Health Systems and Financing, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
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Samer Jabbour pursues dual work in public health as an associate professor of practice in the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, and in medicine as a cardiologist
Jennifer Leaning is Director, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights (USA) at Harvard University and FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health
Ghassan Abu Sitta, MBchB, FRCS (Plast). Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, Head of Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Co-Director of the Conflict Medicine Program, Global Health Institute, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Omar Dewachi, MBChB, PhD. Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Global Health, Co-Director of the Conflict Medicine Program, Global Health Institute, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
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CS11: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Translating research into action in a challenged region: Programs to stem the tide of HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) is the only region globally where both HIV incidence and mortality is rising. Multiple social and structural barriers to the implementation of HIV prevention and treatment have been identified, including suboptimally scaled opioid agonist therapies, inadequate harm reduction services, poor retention in care and limited treatment access for comorbidities. Thus, the epidemic is growing in the setting of multiple gaps of translation of evidence-based interventions into cost-effective programs. The NIH funded investigators in this symposium will highlight the unique aspects of the EECA HIV epidemic and the challenges to implementing evidence-based interventions in the region.
Moderator:
Jack A. DeHovitz, Distinguished Service Professor, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA
Speakers:
Nabila El-Bassel, Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work, USA
Don C. Des Jarlais, Professor of Psychiatry and Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Guest Investigator, Rockefeller University, USA
Frederick L. Altice, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, USA
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CS12: CONCURRENT SESSION
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TITLE: INJURIES
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CS13: CONCURRENT SESSION
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The Lancet Commission on Pollution & Health; Main Findings and Recommendations for the Future
This Plenary Session will present the main findings and recommendations of The Lancet Global Commission on Pollution & Health. Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and death in the world today. It is responsible for 9 million deaths each year - three times as many as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined - as well as for massive economic costs. Despite their great and growing magnitude, pollution and pollution-related disease can be prevented. Yet pollution and pollution-related disease are neglected in the global health and international development agendas and gravely underfunded. This report makes recommendations on how to: (1) end neglect of pollution; (2) focus the world’s attention on the silent threat of pollution-related disease; and (3) mobilize the resources, funding, and political that will needed to control pollution.
Moderator:
Philip J. Landrigan, Dean for Global Health, Arnhold Global Health Institute at Mount Sinai, USA
Speakers:
Maureen Cropper, Distinguished University Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, USA
Maureen McTeer, JD, Adjunct professor of health law, University of Ottawa, CANADA
Richard Fuller, President, Pure Earth, USA
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CS14: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Disparities in access to Education and Global Health training and how to overcome them among minorities in the US
Moderator: TBD
Speakers: TBD
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CS15: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Oral Abstract Presentations, ABSTRACTS 4
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CS16: CONCURRENT SESSION
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Oral Abstract Presentations , ABSTRACTS 5
06:30PM-8:00PM
CUGH RECEPTION
LOCATION TBD