Forum 8, Mexico, November 2004, Posters

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Poster presentations

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Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, Regional Adviser, Health Information Management, EMRO, WHO Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean (WHO/EMRO), Egypt
- Virtual health sciences library of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region: bridging the knowledge gap

Adolfo S. Alvarez-Blanco, Head of Department, Research and Development, Science and Technology, Ministry of Public Health, Cuba
- Health research national plans: linking priorities and actions - the case study of Cuba

Barbara Artnik, Teaching Assistant, Public Health, Faculty of Medecine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- A study on the socioeconomic determinents of mortality in Slovenia

Felipe Asis, Medical Coordinator, Paediatric Specialty Health Unit, Universidad Peadiátrica Ambiental, Mexico
- Strengthening research capacity through a community of practice approach a Canada-Mexico-Cuba environmental health collaboration

Jill Astbury, Research Professor, Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, WHO Collaborating Centre in Women's Health, Victoria University, Australia
- Priority setting: how important is intimate partner violence to the health of women?

Katy Backes, Project Manager, Ibis Reproductive Health, USA
- Expanding options for HIV/STI prevention for women: microbicides and cervical barriers

Reiner Banken, Researcher-Consultant, Agency for Health Services and Technology Assessment, Canada
- Bridges across the "know-do" gap: health technology assessment and health impact assessment

Francisco Becerra-Posada, Director, Academic Concertation and Dissemination, Coordination General for the National Institutes, Secretaria de Salud, Mexico
- Changes in health policy in Mexico: strengthening health research

Achille Benakis, Professor, Pharmacology, Centre Médical Universitaire de Genève, Switzerland
- Making artesunate available in African countries: an urgent need

- Mettre à la disposition des pays africains le medicament antipaludien: l'artesunate, une tâche urgente

Deborah L. Billings, Senior Research Associate, Ipas Mexico, Mexico
- Toward the development of comprehensive care for victims/survivors of sexual violence in Mexico and Bolivia : linking health and legal services; Annexes

Karen Bissell, Coordinator, Health Policy Unit, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, France
- Global-national-subnational interfaces in DOTS strategy transfer: an analysis of Mexico; Annexes

Colin Stewart Brown, Liaison Officer, Public Health Issues, International Federation of Medical Students' Associations, Ireland
- Can rapid participatory appraisal (RPA) facilitate, and subsequently be used to evaluate, health and social change? Lessons for implementing the MDGs

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Jennifer Catino, Regional Program Coordinator, Latin American and Caribbean Countries, The Population Council, Mexico
- Improving health and creating livelihoods options for indigenous girls in Guatemala

Kathie Clark, Co-Director, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre, McMaster University, Canada
- The impact of Cochrane reviews worldwide

Anna Coates, Research Fellow in Social Science, IMMPACT PROJECT, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Initiative for Maternal Mortality Programme Assessment (IMMPACT): strengthening the evidence-base for safe motherhood

Shirin Cooper, Research Associate, Western Regional Centre, Policy Analyis, Energy and Resources Institute, India
- Beyond curative health care: governance as a cross-cutting issue determining community health and well-being

Antonio J. Alves Da Cunha, Associate Professor & Director, Institute of Paediatrics (IPPMG), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Health research national plans: linking priorities and actions - the Brazilian case

Diane DeBell, Director, Research in Health and Social Care, Institute of Health and Community Care, United Kingdom
- Research as a tool in policy formation for HIV/AIDS education and prevention in Ukraine

Janice Du Mont, Research Scientist, Centre for Research in Women’s Health, Toronto , Canada

-Documenting the health impacts of sexual violence: an evaluation of two forensic protocols

Sally Fawkes, Student, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia
- Indicators-tools for gender equity and health: comparative evaluation of indicators - tools commonly used by international agencies

Susan Frazier-Kouassi, Research Investigator, Institute for Social Research, Programme for Research on Black Americans, University of Michigan, USA
- Physical and mental health of Ghanian women at the crossroads of change

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Karniyus Gamaniel, Director, Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Nigeria
- New guidelines are required for the review of studies involving effective herbal medecines

Leah Garcés, Director, Campaigns, World Society for the Protection of Animals, Costa Rica
- Industrial animal agriculture – the next global health crisis?

Cathy Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research and Development, United Kingdom
- Working towards health and economic improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa through capacity building for local innovation

Norman J. Goco, Analyst, Statistics, RTI International, USA
- Coordinating a multi-site global research network: challenges and lessons learned by the Data Coordinating Center

Steffen Groth, Director, Essential Health Technologies, Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals, World Health Organization, Geneva
- Assessing the benefits of e-health

Iara Guerriero, Coordinator, Ethics Committee on Research, Sao Paulo City Government, Brazil
- Gender and vulnerability to HIV: how do concepts about masculinity influence heterosexual men's vulnerability?

Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Economia y Politicas de la Salud, National Insitute of Public Health, Mexico
- Sexual risk behavior among adolescents: the role of socioeconomic and demographic household characteristics

Theresa Gyorkos, Associate Professor/Director, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Clinical Epidemiology/Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Canada
- Improving maternal and newborn health in hookworm-endemic areas by adding a single-dose anthelminthic to prenatal care: randomized controlled trial of iron supplementation plus mebendazole versus iron supplementation plus placebo during pregnancy

Michael Hambidge, Professor Emeritus, Paediatrics, Nutrition, University of Colorado, USA
- A multinational, interdisciplinary, rural community-based collaboration, to evaluate an improved maize for sustained improvement of maternal, infant and child mineral nutrition in the Western Highlands of Guatemala

Hillary Harris, Statistician, STRD, RTI International, USA
- Design and development of data management systems for a multi-site global health study: challenges and strategies

Cesar Hermida, General Coordinator, National Forum for Health Research, Ecuador
- The National Health Research Forum in Ecuador as a strategy to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

Karen J Hofman, Division Director, Advanced Studies and Policy Analysis, Fogarty International Centre, National Institutes of Health, USA
- To what extent is non-communicable, chronic disease being reported in developing country medical journals? Tables

Dale Huntington, Technical Officer, World Health Organization, Geneva
- Health sector reform and maternal care programmes: working together or working separately?

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Vilmos Ivady, Senior Economist, Service Management Training Centre, Semmelweiss University of Medecine, Hungary
- Spending on health: burden or investment? Challenges for middle-income countries to consider health sector as a major determinant of their development

Monica Jasis, Director, Health Research and Monitoring, Centro Mujeres A.C., Mexico
- The health implications of violence against seasonal working women and peasant families in the Northwest: a case study in Baja California Sur

Eva Rahmi Kasim, Publication Officer, Public Relation, Department of Social Affairs Republic of Indonesia , Indonesia

- Social and economic impacts on reproductive health: women with disabilities a case study of Indonesian women with paraplegic ; References

Mohamud Khalif Bile, WHO Representative, Country Office Pakistan, National Institute of Health, Pakistan
- The basic development needs integrated approach: working together for health and poverty reduction in underprivileged rural and urban settings

Wenceslaus Kilama, Managing Trustee, African Malaria Network Trust, Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, Tanzania
- African malaria network promotes R&D across Africa

Fawzy M. Kishk, Professor, Soil and Water Science, Alexandria University, Egypt
- Vulnerability of working children to environmental health risks: a case study in a village in rural Egypt

Jan Klavus, Research Director, Miika Linna, Development Manager, Center for Health Economics, Stakes, Finland
- International comparisions of hospital performance and health expenditure: using policy indicators? Tables

Betty Kwagala Babirye, Medical Counselor, Kawampe Division, TASO, Uganda
- Research findings on HIV/AIDS and people with disabilities

Ruth Levine, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, USA
- What's worked: accounting for success in global health

Grant Lewison, Head, Department of Information Science, City University, United Kingdom
- Outputs and expenditures on health research in eight disease areas: 1996-2001

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Heather Maclean, Director, Centre for Research in Women's Health, Canada

- Globalization poverty and health: a gender perspective

Jean Macq, Lecturer, Politique et Systèmes de Santé, Ecole de santé publique, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- A health system research unit, result of a partnership between nort-south schools of public health: an effective strategy to ensure sustainable processes aimed at improving care to tuberculosis patients

Bakhtaver Mahajan, Senior Scientist, Health Education, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, India
- A science education initiative to improve environment and health in India
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Basanti Majumdar, Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Canada
- An exploration of socioeconomic, spiritual and family support among HIV positive women in India

Hasheem Mannan, Beach Centre on Disability, University of Kansas, USA

- Persons with Disabilities and the Millennium Development Goals

Robin Mason, Research Scientist, Violence and Health Research Program, Centre for Research in Women's Health, Canada
- Evaluating hospital-based responses to intimate partner violence: uncovering the "knowledge to practice" gap

Suellen Miller, Director, Safe Motherhood Program, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences, Women's Global Health Imperative, University of California, USA
- A low technology obstetrical first aid device for saving mother's lives: the trial of the anti-shock garment in Egypt, Nigeria and Mexico

Satoshi Nakamura, Chief of Division, Appropriate Technology Development & Transfer, Technology Transfer and Evaluation, International Medical Center of Japan, Japan

- Distribution of food-borne bacteria in Lao PDR - frequent observations at maret places in Vientiane City, Lao PDR

Mardiati Nadjib, Director, Centre for Health Research, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
- Economic analysis of the Village Midwives Programme: a case study on sustainability of the midwives in 3 districts in Java

Thabale Jack Ngulube, Executive Director, Health Research and Training, Centre for Health, Science and Social Research, Zambia
- Whose decisions and whose stakes for achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): a case study of priority setting and decision making for the prevention and control of schistosomiasis in Chama District of Zambia

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Charles O. Obonyo, Clinical Epidemiologist, Vector Biology and Control Resarch, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya
- The impact of HIV infection on response to antimalaria treatment: preliminary results of a 28-day drug efficacy trial in HIV- infected and HIV-uninfected adults, Siaya, Kenya, 2003

Cha-aim Pachanee, Health Technical Officer, Bureau of Policy and Strategy, International Health Group, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
- Dual track policy: promotion of trade in health services and implementation of universal access to health care services inThailand

Sethuraman Panchanathan, Chairman, Computer Science and Engineering, IRA.A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, USA
- Understanding the health needs for people with disabilities: implications for assistive technologies research and meeting the MDGs

Henry B Perry III, Professor, Future Generations, USA

- The potential of community-based approaches incorporating principles of SEED-SCALE to achieving the Millennium Goals: experiences from India, China, Afghanistan and Peru

Patricia Pittman, Director, International Initiatives, AcademyHealth, USA
- Building and bridging the fields of health services research and policy in Latin America and the Caribbean : research on social protection in health

Raymond W. Pong, Research Director, Center for Rural and Northern Health Research, Laurentian University, Canada
- There is a Third World in the First World when it comes to health research

Elizabeth Ransom, Research Dissemination Specialist, Save the Children, USA
- Newborn survival: delivering the key to MDGs 4

Kimberly Richards, Director, International Institute of Human Development, Zimbabwe
- Combating the spread of HIV in Zimbabwe through improved counselor practice, supervision, and support

Lenore Riddell, Nurse Practitioner, Women's Health Programs, BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre, Canada
- We are women too: the development of the Access Clinic

Mario Henry Rodriguez, Director, Centro de Investigaciones Sobre Enfermedade Infantil, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Mexico
- An ecosystem approach study of malaria transmission and control interventions in southern Mexico

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Luis Salicrup, Senior Adviser for International Technology Transfer, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health, USA
- Partnerships in technology transfer: an innovative program to move biomedical and health research from the laboratory to worldwide practical application

Osman Sankoh, Manager, Communication and External Relations, INDEPTH Network, Ghana
- INDEPTH Network: generating empirical population and health data in resource-constrained countries in the developing world for assessing the Millennium Development Goals

Jens Seeberg, Health Systems Research Adviser, DANIDA, Denmark
- The TB health systems research network, Orissa, India

Abusaleh Shariff, Chief Economist, Human Development, National Council of Applied Economic Research, India
- Relevance of MDGs in enhancing health access and equity in Sudan

Donald T. Simeon, Director of Research, Caribbean Health Research Council, Trinidad and Tobago
- Health research national plans: linking priorities and actions - the case of the Caribbean

Evan Simpson, Senior Communications Officer, Rotavirus Vaccine Program, USA
- The Rotavirus Vaccine Programme: an innovative partnership model for reducing child mortality

Garance Upham, President, People's Health Movement, Francex
- Coordination of dynamic rehabilitation experiments of people living with Post-Polio Syndrome and call for research into PPS as a forgotten disease

- Civil Society Organizations’ Forum for Research in Economics and Health

Stephen Wall, Senior Research Manager, Saving New Born Lives Initiative, Save the Children, USA

- Research priorities to improve global newborn health

Gregor Wolbring, Biochemist, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada

- Research resource flow, new technologies and the 10/90 gap in health research