Conference Programme and Scientific Sessions
Day 1: 24 November 2022
Light breakfast available from 07h15 – for registration and networking
08:40 – 09:00
Welcome and Opening
Professor Pontiano Kaleebu, Director, Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) & Director of MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Uganda
Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Director-General a.i., Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Ethiopia
Professor Trudie Lang, Director, The Global Health Network, United Kingdom
09:00 – 10:30
Session 1: Fostering Leadership and Building Lasting Capable Research Teams
Chair: Lolem B. Ngong, Chief of Staff, Amref Health Africa, Kenya
Plenary
WHO and needs-driven research in under-represented populations, a 2022 World Health Assembly Resolution
Dr Vasee Moorthy, Senior Advisor R&D, World Health Organization, Switzerland
Talks
Slum and Rural Health Initiative Research with Purpose Academy (SRA): Building Interdisciplinary Research Capacity and Leadership Miracle Adesina, Senior Research Associate and Country Coordinator (Nigeria), Slum and Rural Health Initiative, Nigeria |
Building a Research Network through Clinical Research Collaboration Dr Anani Badje, Project Manager (Côte d’Ivoire), Programme PACCI, Côte d’Ivoire |
Coordination of a Global Network for Creating Enabling Environments for Social Innovations in Health José René Bagani Cruz, Network Coordinator, Social Innovation in Health Initiative, Philippines |
Presence of the Scientific Advisory Committee contributes to enhance the academic development of the Hospital Glenda Ernst, Scientific Committee Coordinator, Hospital Britanico, Argentina |
"Beyond theory": Methodological mentoring to strengthen health research. Dr Fernando Rubinstein, Director of Education, Instituto de Efectividad Clinica y Sanitaria (IECS), Argentina |
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break and Posters
11:00 – 12:30
Session 2: Ensuring Research Findings are Taken Up into Policy and Practice
Chair: Professor John Reeder, Director, Special Programme for Research
and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) & Director, Department of Research for Health
World Health Organization, Switzerland
Plenary
Building Health Research into Health Systems in Bangladesh by Embedding Skills and Supporting the Whole Research Cycle
Dr Aliya Naheed, Scientist, Initiative for Non Communicable Diseases, Health System and Population Studies Division, icddr,b and lead for The Global Health Network Asia Regional Coordination Centre, Bangladesh
Talks
From policy to practice: lessons learned from two regional consultations on strengthening the implementation of tobacco control policies in India Vivek Dsouza, Research Officer, Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru, India |
Science-based health innovation in Uganda: creative strategies for applying research to development Nalwoga Aminah, Researcher, Save A Life Foundation, Uganda |
Bridging the gap from Knowledge to Action: Implementation of the Data to Policy (D2P) training program at sub-national levels in Zambia Kutha Banda, Senior Program Officer - Learning and Evaluation, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Zambia |
Improving prison health in Madagascar through knowledge translation: an innovative challenge Elodie Chevallier, Project Coordinator, Institut Pasteur De Madagascar, Madagascar |
Promoting health and gender equity through research ethics capacity-building: the Spanish-West African experience Farah Nabil, Research Associate & Project Manager, Universidad De Zaragoza, Spain |
Towards Achieving improved access to youth-friendly Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) services in Cross River State (CRS) Nigeria; Sustaining Evidence-Driven Advocacy through the CRS SRHR policy Goodness Odey, Public Health Practitioner, University of Calabar, Nigeria Madonna Badom, Youth Advocate, UNFPA, Nigeria |
12.30 - 14.00
Lunch Break and Posters
14.00 - 15.30
Session 3: Enabling Health Research in Every Healthcare Setting
Chair: Dr Sally Nicholas, Head of Health Systems and Environments, Wellcome, United Kingdom
Plenary
EDCTP: Connecting and Building Research Excellence Across Africa
Dr Tom Nyirenda, Strategic Partnerships and Capacity Development Manager, EDCTP, South Africa
Talks
The WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network’s efforts to “level the playing fields” for data sharing by researchers in malaria endemic countries
Professor Karen Barnes, Head of the Pharmacology Group, WWARN, South Africa
The Neuroviruses Emerging in the Americas Network (NEAS): fostering research of Acute Neuroinflammatory Disorders (ANIDs) in healthcare settings in Colombia
Jose Miguel Enciso Gutierrez, Research Assistant, Universidad Del Valle, Colombia
Pregnancy care as an opportunity for a sustainable population-based surveillance system Dr Jackeline Alger, Parasitologist, Departamento de Laboratorio Clínico, Hospital Escuela, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Voluntary Consent to Research on HIV-infected Children in the CHAPAS-4 and ODYSSEY HIV Clinical Trials
Shafic Makumbi, Research Manager, Joint Clinical Research Centre, Uganda
Setting an agenda for decolonisation of global health research
Dr Nadia Tagoe, Researcher / Research Manager and Adjunct Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Capacity of laboratories as surveillance sites for Neisseria gonorrhoeae culture and antimicrobial resistance or susceptibility testing in public hospitals within Kisumu County, Kenya
Walter Agingu, Laboratory Manager, Nyanza Reproductive Health Society, Kenya
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break and Posters
16.00-17.30
Session 4: Engaging the Community in Every Step of the Research Cycle
Chair: Dr Mahesh Maskey, Executive Chief, Nepal Public Health Foundation, Nepal
Plenary
Community Engagement – Our Experience with Zika in Brazil
Dr Gustavo Matta, Public Health Researcher, FIOCRUZ, Brazil
Talks
Community engagement in a Community Health Worker program designed for tribal areas, findings of a qualitative study in Kerala, India
Gloria Benny, Research Assistant, The George Institute for Global Health, India
Pictorial evidence profiles for involvement of the less-empowered citizens in high-level decision making
Edward Kayongo, Research Scientist, The Centre for Rapid Evidence Synthesis (ACRES), Uganda
Community sensitisation using participatory arts-based methods for the research study 'Tupumue: Non-communicable lung disease in Kenya: from burden and early life determinants to participatory inter-disciplinary solutions.'
Dr Cressida Bowyer, Senior Research Fellow, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Exploring knowledge of research participants on their roles & responsibilities in clinical research in Blantyre and Chikwawa districts of Southern Malawi: expectation vs reality in practice
Gertrude Banda, Global Health Bioethics Network Fellow/ Scientist, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust, Malawi
Promoting Research Equity and Participation Through Community Engagement: Lessons Learned from the PREVAIL InVITE Study in Liberia
Barthalomew Wilson, Social Mobilization, Communications & Community Engagement Manager, Partnership for Research on Vaccines and Infectious Diseases in Liberia/FHI-Clinical, Liberia
Embracing Agility in the time of COVID- 19: The Case of KEMRI-Wellcome Trust School Engagement Programme, Kilifi Kenya
Angela Kyalo, School Engagement Programme Lead, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya
17:30
Day 1 Closing Remarks
Professor John Reeder, Director, Special Programme for Research
and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) & Director, Department of Research for Health
World Health Organization, Switzerland
Please join a conference photo session for all delegates outside the Sarah Baartman Hall immediately following the closing remarks.
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