APC at the Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
November 14, 2016 to November 18, 2016
Join APC at the Global Symposium on Health Systems Research from November 14th - 18th, 2016. APC is participating in the following presentations:
Title: Creating a vision for success: using human centered design to inform implementation of a community health worker program in Tanzania When: Wednesday, November 16th from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Where: Room 16 Who: Kristen Devlin, JSI Research & Training Institute APC will be presenting its work on human-centered design (HCD), a participatory methodology that emphasizes mutual understanding, systems thinking, and collaborative problem-solving. APC is piloting HCD to engage with local health system actors to better understand the issues and potential solutions around district-level implementation of a new community health worker program in Tanzania. The presentation is part of the session Current and Emerging Methods in Health Policy and Systems Research.
Satellite Sessions
Title: Promoting child-friendly and resilient health systems using the EQUIST tool: a novel approach to strategic planning to reduce disparities in maternal and child health When: Tuesday, November 15th from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm Where: Room 19 Panelists: Wuleta Betemariam, JSI Research & Training Institute/The Last 10 Kilometers Project/Ethiopia; Representative, Better Birth Presented by one of APC's grantees, L10K, this session will support participants to develop their skills in strategic planning and prioritization for equitable, child-friendly health policies and programs. Participants will learn key concepts related to the measurement and assessment of health disparities, then use the EQUIST tool to model and compare alternative strategies for sample countries.
Title: Measurement, learning and evaluation for maternal and newborn health When: Tuesday, November 15th from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm Where: Room 11 Panelists: Wuleta Betemariam, JSI Research & Training Institute/The Last 10 Kilometers Project/Ethiopia; Representative, Better Birth This session will focus on embedding “learning” within measurement, learning and evaluation for better maternal and newborn health. Short presentations, each followed by discussion with interactive Q&A, will emphasis reflection of learning from the characterization of complex intervention strategies, from new measurement methods, and learning that strengthens implementation processes.
Title: Engaging drug shops and pharmacies of points of care for health care service delivery When: Tuesday, November 15th from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm Where: Room 18 Panelists: Nhan Tran, Maggwa Baker, Shawn Malarcher, Jane Hutchings, John Stanback (FHI 360) Work is being undertaken to develop and test models on the potential impact of engaging drug shops and pharmacies as points of care for health care delivery services. This session led by APC/FHI 360 staff will discuss current evidence and gaps, policy implications, training needs, and definitions of success for near, mid, and long terms.
Poster Presentations
Theme: Implementing Improvement and Innovation in Health Services and Systems
Title: Measuring intervention coverage to track progress towards maternal and newborn mortality reduction targets of the Sustainable Development Goals: Setting a system in Ethiopia When: Friday, November 18th from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Where: Exhibition Hall B, Marketplace Who: Ali Karim, JSI Research & Training Institute/ The Last 10 Kilometers Project/Ethiopia
E-Posters
Title: What works? A facility-based mentorship and coaching model for community health workers improves the quality of community-based family planning services in Uganda When: Friday, November 18th from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Where: Exhibition Hall B, Marketplace, Screen 5 Who: Ramadhan Kirunda, FHI 360 APC will be presenting a poster on the work done in partnership with Uganda’s Ministry of Health in establishing the first community-based family planning (CBFP) learning site in Busia district, Uganda. APC used the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Collaborative model to address CBFP gaps. Each of the health center catchment areas has a quality improvement (QI) team with volunteer health teams trained as internal coaches/QI champions and midwives as mentors, with clients participating in learning sessions. Midwives conduct monthly facility-based QI coaching and mentorship sessions where community health workers (CHWs) are trained on QI cycle principles and processes, identifying and implementing change ideas. APC has found a QI mentorship model increases CHW and midwife interaction, which allows for innovation and empowers both CHWs and midwives to own the community-based QI process. In addition, client retention has increased with the introduction of the CBFP QI initiative. View the poster>>
Title: Community engagement and facility governance: critical factors for maintaining high quality services in Primary Health Units (PHUs) in Sierra Leone Who: Princess Sowa, JSI Research & Training Institute In order to fulfill the Ministry of Health and Sanitation's vision for the facility management committee as an essential structure for community engagement in health, this poster describes the concept, context, and process for developing a harmonized community engagement strategy in Sierra Leone. View the poster>>
Join APC at the Global Symposium on Health Systems Research from November 14th - 18th, 2016. APC is participating in the following presentations:
Title: Creating a vision for success: using human centered design to inform implementation of a community health worker program in Tanzania
When: Wednesday, November 16th from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Where: Room 16
Who: Kristen Devlin, JSI Research & Training Institute
APC will be presenting its work on human-centered design (HCD), a participatory methodology that emphasizes mutual understanding, systems thinking, and collaborative problem-solving. APC is piloting HCD to engage with local health system actors to better understand the issues and potential solutions around district-level implementation of a new community health worker program in Tanzania. The presentation is part of the session Current and Emerging Methods in Health Policy and Systems Research.
Satellite Sessions
Title: Promoting child-friendly and resilient health systems using the EQUIST tool: a novel approach to strategic planning to reduce disparities in maternal and child health
When: Tuesday, November 15th from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm
Where: Room 19
Panelists: Wuleta Betemariam, JSI Research & Training Institute/The Last 10 Kilometers Project/Ethiopia; Representative, Better Birth
Presented by one of APC's grantees, L10K, this session will support participants to develop their skills in strategic planning and prioritization for equitable, child-friendly health policies and programs. Participants will learn key concepts related to the measurement and assessment of health disparities, then use the EQUIST tool to model and compare alternative strategies for sample countries.
Title: Measurement, learning and evaluation for maternal and newborn health
When: Tuesday, November 15th from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm
Where: Room 11
Panelists: Wuleta Betemariam, JSI Research & Training Institute/The Last 10 Kilometers Project/Ethiopia; Representative, Better Birth
This session will focus on embedding “learning” within measurement, learning and evaluation for better maternal and newborn health. Short presentations, each followed by discussion with interactive Q&A, will emphasis reflection of learning from the characterization of complex intervention strategies, from new measurement methods, and learning that strengthens implementation processes.
Title: Engaging drug shops and pharmacies of points of care for health care service delivery
When: Tuesday, November 15th from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm
Where: Room 18
Panelists: Nhan Tran, Maggwa Baker, Shawn Malarcher, Jane Hutchings, John Stanback (FHI 360)
Work is being undertaken to develop and test models on the potential impact of engaging drug shops and pharmacies as points of care for health care delivery services. This session led by APC/FHI 360 staff will discuss current evidence and gaps, policy implications, training needs, and definitions of success for near, mid, and long terms.
Poster Presentations
Theme: Implementing Improvement and Innovation in Health Services and Systems
Title: Measuring intervention coverage to track progress towards maternal and newborn mortality reduction targets of the Sustainable Development Goals: Setting a system in Ethiopia
When: Friday, November 18th from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Where: Exhibition Hall B, Marketplace
Who: Ali Karim, JSI Research & Training Institute/ The Last 10 Kilometers Project/Ethiopia
E-Posters
Title: What works? A facility-based mentorship and coaching model for community health workers improves the quality of community-based family planning services in Uganda
When: Friday, November 18th from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Where: Exhibition Hall B, Marketplace, Screen 5
Who: Ramadhan Kirunda, FHI 360
APC will be presenting a poster on the work done in partnership with Uganda’s Ministry of Health in establishing the first community-based family planning (CBFP) learning site in Busia district, Uganda. APC used the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Collaborative model to address CBFP gaps. Each of the health center catchment areas has a quality improvement (QI) team with volunteer health teams trained as internal coaches/QI champions and midwives as mentors, with clients participating in learning sessions. Midwives conduct monthly facility-based QI coaching and mentorship sessions where community health workers (CHWs) are trained on QI cycle principles and processes, identifying and implementing change ideas. APC has found a QI mentorship model increases CHW and midwife interaction, which allows for innovation and empowers both CHWs and midwives to own the community-based QI process. In addition, client retention has increased with the introduction of the CBFP QI initiative.
View the poster>>
Title: Community engagement and facility governance: critical factors for maintaining high quality services in Primary Health Units (PHUs) in Sierra Leone
Who: Princess Sowa, JSI Research & Training Institute
In order to fulfill the Ministry of Health and Sanitation's vision for the facility management committee as an essential structure for community engagement in health, this poster describes the concept, context, and process for developing a harmonized community engagement strategy in Sierra Leone.
View the poster>>
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