Forum 8 Oral presentations

Presentations

Keynote speaker

Ilona Kickbusch, Senior Adviser on Health Policy, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Switzerland
- Public health in the 21st century and the role of health research

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Mohammad Abdur Rab, Regional Adviser, Research Policy and Cooperation, WHO Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean (WHO/EMRO), Cairo
- Ethics in health research in EMRO: practice and perceptions among health researchers in the region
- Review of national health research systems in selected countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

Celia Maria Almeida, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Health Administration and Planning, National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
- A priority setting methodology for an institutional programme of research for health service technology development and innovation

Shams E. Arifeen, Head, Child Health and Nutrition Initiative, ICDDRB, Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladeshx
- With benefit of hindsight: policy and programme lessons from the evaluation of IMCI

Felipe Asis, Medical Coordinator, Paediatric Specialty Health Unit, Universidad Peadiátrica Ambiental, Mexico
-The Mexican Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit

Rumesa Aziz, Senior Research Officer, Social and Behavioural Sciences Unit, Public Health Sciences Unit, ICDDRB, Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh
- Motivations and incentives for a young researcher in health research for development in Bangladesh

Brigitte Bagnol, Researcher, South Africa
- Sexuality and the need to integrate men perspectives

José S. Barzelatto, Vice-President, Center for Health and Social Policy, USA
- The MDGs and sexual and reproductive health and rights, in context

Fran Baum, Head of Department, Public Health, Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia
- Social, political and structural underpinnings of the MDGs

Dominique Behague, Lecturer, Katerini Storeng, Research Fellow, Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
- An ethnographic study of the role of evidence in developing appropriate policies for the organization of maternal health services

Stephan Björk, Senior Adviser, Stakeheldur Relations, Starpasdin Relations, Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark

- Economical aspects of diabetes care

Jaime Breilh, Executive Director, Health Reseach and Advisory Center, Ecuador
- Methodological innovation, intercultural knowledge building and empowerment: the case of participatory research in an agro-industrial area

Nigel Bruce, Senior Lecturer and Consultant, Department of Public Health, School of Population, Community and Behavioural, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Application of the combined framework to indoor air pollution in Kenya: a country case study

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Luis de la Calle, Managing Director, De la Calle, Madrazo y Mancera, Mexico
- Ideas on how best to promote knowledge creation

Marie Connett-Porceddu, Senior Consulting Coordinator, Bioforge, Center for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture, USA
- Fostering democratic innovation as a means of reducing the 10/90 gap

Cristina Diaz, Researcher, Vector Control, Parasitology, Tropical Medicine Institute, Cuba
- An ecosystem approach to human health for the prevention of dengue at local level

Lesley Doyal, Professor, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

- Integration of gender into coronary heart disease research

Margrit Eichler, Professor, Gender and Equity Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
- What are the global preconditions for good health?

Alan Feranil, Chief, Research Management and Development Division, Council for Health Research and Development, Philippines
- The bottom-up approach in research agenda setting: lessons from the Philippine experience

Consuelo Garcia-Andrade, Researcher, Epidemiology and Psychosocial Research, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente M., Mexico
- Defining healthy minds from indigenous perspectives: lessons from a Canadian-Mexican collaboration to promote mental health among the Ñahñu people

Asha George, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India
- Maternity in crisis: gendered health systems: maternal health care in Koppal, Karnataka

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Christian Gericke, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
- The role of intervention complexity for the feasability of scaling-up health interventions in developing countries

Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's Health Coalition, USA
- Sexual and reproductive health: foundation for achieving the MDGs

Lucy Gilson, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
- Strengthening health systems research capacity: South African experiences

Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Head of Department, Epidemiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India
- Socio-economic impact of road traffic injuries in India and other developing countries

Davidson Gwatkin, President, Gwatkin Associates, USA

- The content of pro-poor health policies and programmes

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Jean-Pierre Habicht, Professor, Epidemiology, Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, USA
- Prioritizing research to meet the MDGs requires structural and funding change: beyond the 10/90 gap

Gerhard Heinze, Director, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente M., Mexico
- An innovative project regarding substance abuse in an aboriginal population in Mexico - findings and implications for health services

Frederick Hickling, Head of Section, Community Health and Psychiatry, Mona Campus, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
- Application of research findings in the development of community mental health services in Jamaica

Martha Hijar Medina, Acting Executive Director, National Insitute of Public Health, Mexico
- Road traffic injuries (RTI) research in the Latin American and Caribbean region

Daniel Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, USA
- Developmental origins of chronic diseases biological mechanisms and the impact of transitional economics

Kirti Iyengar, Coordinator, Reproductive Health, Action Research and Training for Health, India
- Research needs in maternal morbidity

Rachel Jenkins, Director, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, United Kingdom
- Mental and neurological health, gender and the MDGs

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Gerald T. Keusch, Provost and Dean for Global Health, International Health, Medical Campus, Boston University, USA

- Voluntary virtual network of the major national research agencies and foundations working on global health issues

Felicia Knaul, Coordinadora General para la Modernización, Secretaria de Educación Pública, Mexico
- Applying analysis of financial protection in health in the Mexican Health Reform of 2003: an example of evidence for policy making

Danuta Krotoski, Acting Associate Director, Prevention Research, International Programmes, National Institutes of Health, USA
- The National Childrens' Study: US and international perspectives

Ronald Labonté, Director, Community Health and Epidemiology, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, Canada

- Action for a strong and prosperous Africa: the role of the G8 in global health equity

Stephen R. Leeder, Director, Australian Health Policy Institute, University of Sydney, Australia
- Beyond reproduction: women’s health in today’s developing world

Ruth Levine, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, USA
- Gaps and missing links: what do we need to know about resource flows in global health?

Stephen Litavecz, Research Programmer, RTI International, USA
- Handheld computing devices for clinical data management in a multi-site trial in Latin America

Mariana Lopez Ortega, Researcher, Centro de Analisis Social y Economico En Salud, Mexican Health Foundation, Mexico
- Improving gender equity: women's role in household health care in Mexico

Nora Lustig, President, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
- Overview of the Mexican Commission on Macroeconomics and Health's objectives, organisation and main findings

Qamar Mahmood, Assistant Coordinator, Healthlink, Global Equity Gauge Alliance, South Africa
- Partnerships aimed at achieving Millennium Development Goals in Pakistan

Richard Mahoney, Research Professor, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, USA
- Innovation in health research and development for diseases of poverty

Cicely Marston, Lecturer, Primary Care and Social Medecine, Social Science & Public Health, Imperial College, United Kingdom
- Changing gender relations among young people: an ethnographic study of the Gente Joven ("Young People") programme in Mexico City

Robin Mason, Research Scientist, Violence and Health Research Program, Centre for Research in Women's Health, Canada
- Establishing a North/South research partnership in health sector responses to gender-based violence: applying lessons learned locally

Stephen Maurer, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of California, Arti K. Rai, Professor, Law School, Duke University, USA

- Finding cures for tropical diseases: is open source an answer?

Elizabeth McClure, Health Research Analyst, Statistics Research Division, RTI International, USA
- The Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research (GN): bridging the gap of the ethical review process

David McCoy, Officer, Global Health Watch, Global Equity Gauge Alliance and Peoples Health, United Kingdom

- Practical experiences in linking health research with policy and practice

Anne Mills, Professor, Health Economics and Policy, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
- Health financing in LMICs : what is the evidence base?

Tina Minkowitz, Co-Chair, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, USA
- Psychosocial disability and human rights: a discussion that is prerequisite to development of any research agenda

Maristela Monteiro, Regional Adviser, Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Mental Health and Specialized Services, Pan American Health Organization, Washington
- Alcohol as a risk factor for the burden of disease in the Americas and implications for research in the region

Kath Moser, Lecturer, Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
- How does progress towards the child mortality Millennium Goal affect inequalities between the poorest and least poor?

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Victor Neufeld, Professor Emeritus, Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Canada
- Promoting health research to achieve the Millennium Development Goals: what are 'high-income' countires doing?

Wilson Odero, Dean, School of Public Health, Moi University, Kenya
- Road traffic injury research in Africa : context and priorities

Oystein Evjen Olsen, Senior Health Systems Research and Capacity Development Adviser, Primary Health Care Institute, Tanzania
- Restoring trust: rethinking failed frameworks for improved health care provision in resource poor environments
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Kevin Outterson, Associate Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law, USA
- Pharmaceutical arbitrage: challenging the World Trade Organization TRIPS Agreement and the innovation based case to expand pharmaceutical intellectual property rights in the developing world.

Bernard Pécoul, Executive Director, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Switzerland

- DNDi: developing a needs driven agenda for neglected diseases

Poul Erik Petersen, Chief, Oral Health, Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion, World Health Organization, Geneva
- Research for oral health in developing countries - challenges for the 21st century and the approach of the WHO Global Oral Health Programme

Steven Price, Chief Executive Officer, Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisor, USA
- Public Intellectual Property Advisors (PIIPA): finding free intellectual property assistance for developing countries

Ritu Priya Mehrotra, Chairperson, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, India
- Health policy and systems research: informing the HIV/AIDS research agenda

Arturo Octavio Quizhpe Peralta, Coordinator, Second People's Health Assembly, Ecuador
- Militarism, conflicts and MDGs

Marc-Antoine Ramanamisata, Nutrition Specialist, Linkages /AED, Madagascar
- Promoting exclusive breastfeeding in Madagascar : a streamlined approach to expand to two new regions

Laura Reichenbach, Research Scientist, Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, USA
- The gender dimensions of the global health workforce

Anthony Robbins, Co-Editor, Journal of Public Health Policy, USA, Jerry M. Spiegel, Director, Global Health, Liu Centre for the Study of Global Issues, University of British Columbia, Canada
- AuthorAid: overcoming the 10/90 publication gap

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Mahmoud Salem, Director, Health Policy, Salem for Health Research and Consultancy, Lebanon
- Health Financing Profile (HFP): utlising National Health Accounts matrix data for effective future policies

Luis Salicrup, Senior Adviser for International Technology Transfer, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health, USA
- Developing health R&D systems: partnerships for capacity building in international technology transfer. Latin American examples and case studies commissioned by MIHR

Andrés Sánchez Bain, Senior Program Specialist, International Development Research Centre,Canada
- An ecosystem approach to human health: building a trans-disciplinary and participatory research framework

Abusaleh Shariff, Chief Economist, Human Development, National Council of Applied Economic Research, India
- Poverty and healthy equity: an Indian case study

Erika Silva, Manager, Research and New Initiatives, Integral Health Coordination Programme, Bolivia
- Improvements of housing conditions in rural areas of Bolivia to control Chagas Disease and decrease prevalent childhood diseases

Tong Soprach, Playing Safe Project Officer, Reproductive Health, Playing Safe Project, CARE Cambodia, Cambodia
- Culturally-embedded sexual violence in Cambodia

Daniela Sotres, Centre for Research in Nutrition and Health, National Insitute of Public Health, Mexico
- Impact of the Mexican Program for Education, Health and Nutrition (Progresa) on rates of growth and anemia in infants and young children: a randomised effectiveness study

Chutima Suraratdecha, Demand Project Manager, Public Policy, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, USA
- Improve access to HIV/AIDS vaccine: assessing public and private demand

Innocent Takougang, Researcher, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Cameroon
- Linking development to private sector/commerce - the new incentive?

Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, Coordinator, Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy, Choosing Interventions: Effectiveness, Quality, Costs and Gender (EQC), World Health Organization, Geneva
- Reaching the health-related MDGs: which are the cost-effective interventions and how much will they cost?

Britt Tersbol, Research Coordinator, International Health, Institute of Public Health, Danish Network for International Health Research, Denmark
- Ethics in ethnographic field research on reproductive health and sexuality: promoting a reciprocal research process

Cesar G. Victora, Researcher, Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
- International child health research: are we asking the right questions?

Adik Wibowo, Regional Adviser, Research Policy and Cooperation, Evidence and Information for Policy, WHO Regional Office for South East Asia (WHO/SEARO), New Delhi
- Health research priorities on emerging infectious diseases in the South-East Asia Region

Gregor Wolbring, Biochemist, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada
- Disabled people science and technology and health research

Kaspar Wyss, Project Manager, Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland
- The national upscaling of insecticide-treated nets in Tanzania and the NETCELL project

P. Princy Yesudian, Research Officer, Publication and Research, International Institute of Population Sciences, India
- Impact of women's empowerment, autonomy and attitude on maternal health care utlization

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Youping Li, Director, Virtual Centre of EBM, Chinese Cochrane Centre, China
- A perspective of evidence-based medicine on post-marketing drug evaluation in China: present problems and strategies