Emerging Voiced for Global Health (EV4GH) is a multi-partner blended training programme for young, promising and emerging health policy and systems researchers, decision-makers and other health system professionals with an interest in becoming influential global health voices and local change-makers.
If you would like to find out more about the EV4GH TWG and the activities we will be involved in at the Symposium, why not:
- Visit us at the HSG stall in the Exhibition space
- Follow us @ev4gh, #ev4gh and #ev2018 on Twitter
- Like us on Facebook
- Join us at one of the exciting sessions listed below.
Official TWG sesssions
Session Type | Title | Short description | Date & time | Location |
Organized Session | Is the declaration of Alma Ata of ‘Health For All’ still relevant 40 years later in a world of “Universal Health Coverage”? | Decades after the Alma Ata Declaration, ‘Health for All’ remains elusive. Using country-level experiences, Emerging Voices will debate whether, and to what extent, Alma Ata has translated and contributed to Universal Health Coverage goals, if progress towards ‘Health for All’ has been made, and whether the term has relevance today. | Friday, October 12, 09:00-10:30 | ACC room 1C |
Business meeting | TWG business meeting: Emerging Voices for Global Health | Wednesday, October 10, 12:30 – 13:45 | ACC Room 13 |
TWG member sessions
Name | Session Type | Title of presentation | Short description of session/presentation | Date & time | Location |
Georgina Zawolo | Poster | Ensuring no one is left behind in health systems development: community engagement a critical step in rebuilding trust in the Liberian health system | The poster will describe how community engagement shaped health interventions, helps rebuild trust between health system and its population. |
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Andre J Van Rensburg | Oral | The significance of power dynamics in shaping government and private sector mental health care engagement in constrained resource settings: Lessons from South Africa | Presentation of a small, mixed methods study on the role of power dynamics in the integration of mental health care across state and non-state boundaries. | Tuesday, October 9, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC Room 4A |
Kadidiatou Kadio | Poster | Comment la connaissance scientifique informe le processus politique? Le cas de la politique nationale de protection sociale du Burkina Faso |
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Deepika Saluja | Organised Session | Lessons from the implementation of RSBY for enhancing accountability in the newly announced National Health Protection Scheme in India | Engaging private sector providers in national health financing policies in low- and middle-income countries: spell out your theory of change and monitor the implementation. | Friday, October 12, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC Hall 2E |
Francisco Oviedo | Organised Session | Competencies for Health Policy and Systems Research: Findings From a Global Mapping and Consensus-building Process and Case Examples of Competencies in Practice | This session, organized by the HSG thematic working group (TWG) on Teaching and Learning Health Policy and Systems Research, will provide a forum to expose the result of a consultative research process about global competencies — a set of knowledge, skills, and abilities — for HPSR. | Thursday, October 11, 11:00 – 12:30 | Hall 2F |
Angela Kisakaye | Oral | A health workforce tailored to the needs of health insurance schemes in low and middle income countries: Strategies and lessons from five African countries | This presentation will offer some practical lessons around health insurance workforce preparation for policy makers, health manager and insurance providers intending to initiate health insurance schemes. | Thursday, October 11, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC Main Auditorium |
Hoa Thi Nyugen | Poster | Long-term effects of user fee reduction and removal on utilization of facility-based delivery, a controlled interrupted time-series analysis in Burkina Faso | This poster describes immediate and long-term effects of the user fee reduction policy and the removal pilot from January 2004 to December 2014. |
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Yinzi Jin | Poster | Impact of health insurance coverage and health workforce on seeking behavior of inpatient care in China | This study used nationally representative data to evaluate the independent and combined contributions of health insurance and health workforce on the choice of inpatients care providers in China. | Wednesday, October 10, 10:50 – 10:55 | Galleria |
Guillermo Hegel | Oral | Primary health care, an urban challenge: the experience of Villa Nueva, Guatemala in the process of developing a municipal health policy | The present narrative review presents the particular efforts to coordinate and strengthen the local health system in the municipality of Villa Nueva, Guatemala, during the five-year period 2012-2017. | Friday, October 12, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 3A |
Sabu K U | Poster | Caste Inequality in Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure in India: An Intersectional Analysis | Using child anthropometric data from National Family Health Survey (NFHS 4, 2015-16), this study makes an intersectional analysis of Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) by multiple axes of inequality such as caste, economic class, gender and place of residence to better understand the specific subgroups that are most disadvantaged in India. |
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Martin Muhire | Poster | HIV clients are key to sustaining improvement interventions in HIV care. A qualitative study in Buikwe district, Uganda | A cross sectional qualitative study was conducted to examine improvement approaches based on knowledge and experiences of health providers involved in providing HIV care |
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Angeli Rawat | Poster | Rural Women’s preferences and knowledge for integrated, community-based self-collection for cervical cancer screening in rural Uganda: The ASPIRE Mayuge project | We aim to understand 1) women’s knowledge, preferences and potential barriers for Self-collection for cervical cancer screening (SC-CCS) 2) health seeking behaviors, specifically barriers and facilitators to access and engagement in care and 3) health system challenges to implementation of community-based integrated CCS. | Wednesday, October 10, 10:50 – 10:55 | Level 3 |
Oral | Now We Are Free”: Reorienting health systems towards community-based primary health care -a film on integrated HIV-care in South Africa | The purpose of this film is to give a voice to patients, communities, and frontline health care workers in order to show viewers firsthand how integrated, community-based service delivery models changed the lives of people in South Africa. | Thursday, October 11, 14:00 – 15.30 | ACC room 11B | |
Juliet Aweko | Oral | Role of the community in the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in Stockholm | This study aimed at describing the meaning of community among people with diverse cultural backgrounds, their role and collaboration with local stakeholders in the prevention and management of type 2-diabetes (T2D) in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in Stockholm. | Wednesday, October 10, 11:00 – 12:00 | ACC room 4A |
Kéfilath Bello | Oral | Mirroring the future! Using social-media for inclusive and strategic health communication and health promotion activities in French-speaking countries in West-Africa |
| Wednesday, October 10, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 4A |
Yogish Channa Basappa | Oral | Is the beneficiary aware about their insurance scheme? A descriptive analysis from Karnataka | This oral presentation speaks on enrolment of health insurance schemes Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) to protect the poor from high hospitalisation costs. | Wednesday, October 10, 14:00 – 15:30 | ACC room 3A |
Joseph Dodoo | SHAPES Debate | Are social sciences irrelevant to health systems policy-making” |
| Friday, October 12, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 1B |
Shafiu Mohammed | Poster | Variability of medicine prices in health facilities and pharmacy outlets in north-west Nigeria: A challenge for equitable health systems for all | The objectives of this research study are to investigate the prices and availability of medicines as they vary among the different health facilities and pharmacy outlets in Nigeria. |
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Erlyn Rachelle Macarayan | Satellite session | Catalyzing health system quality in low-and-middle income countries: Launch of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era | To address the need for high-quality health care for all, Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era (HQSS Commission) will launch its report, discussing quality definition, description, measurement, improvement and ethics, and for re-thinking and reforming low-and-middle income health systems towards high-quality service delivery. | Tuesday, October 9, 13:30 – 17:00 | ACC room 11B |
Oral | New evidence mapping inequities of quality of care: cross-country and local-level analysis of primary health care systems in 10 low- and middle-income countries | This study examines subnational disparities in PHC quality using a novel measure focusing on processes of care rather than health system inputs. | Friday, October 12, 11:00 – 12:30
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Poster | Achieving the SDGs through primary health care management: first quantitative evidence for the critical role of primary care management in an LMIC | We proposed a framework for measuring management of PHC in LMICs and presented the results of a novel survey assessing PHC management performance in Ghana. |
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Oral | Patient experience of primary health care quality, accessibility, and responsiveness in Ghana: Results from a nationally-representative survey | This paper reports on a novel 2016 survey in Ghana to quantify patient experiences and their determinants. To our knowledge, this is the first nationally-representative survey of patient experience of PHC in sub-Saharan Africa. | Friday, October 12, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 11B | |
Leanne Brady | Multimedia | Red Zone Paramedics: a film about the everyday experiences of delivering emergency care. Using film to develop bottom-up solutions to address violence in Cape Town |
| Wednesday, October 10, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 11B |
Organized Session | Using media to facilitate bottom-up accountability, health systems responsiveness, and participatory decision-making processes: the role of citizen journalists, social activists and the media |
| Wednesday, October 10, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC Main Auditorium | |
Tom Traill | Poster | Purchasing Health Services from Ethnic Health Organizations: A new way to provide health coverage and peace to those forgotten in Myanmar’s civil war | The poster will examine whether purchasing services is a new way to promote peace through health by devolving power to communities and thereby promoting positive peace and autonomy, not just civil interaction. | Thursday, 11 October, 13:00 – 13:05 | Level 3 |
Stephanie Co | Lightening | ‘Insuring’ health protection: who is left behind? |
| Wednesday, October 10, 11:00 – 12:30 | ACC room 12 |
Veena Sriram | Panel discussion | What are the capacities of Ministries of Health to govern? Results from a scoping review of the literature | Few frameworks allow for a systematic analysis of individual, organizational and systems level capacities for Ministries of Health to achieve their governance functions. This presentation will discuss findings from a scoping review that was conducted in order to understand the governance capacities of Ministries of Health. | Wednesday, October 10, 14:00 – 15:30 | ACC room 4A |
Organized session | Bureaucratic power and health sector regulation in India: A case study of regulating emergency medicine training in Indian medical colleges | This talk will focus on how regulatory institutions in India exercise the bureaucratic power to shape the trajectory of postgraduate medical education training programs in India. | Friday, October 12, 9:00-10:30 | ACC room 11C | |
Nasreen Jesani | Satellite Session | Making Universal Health Coverage a reality by 2030: evidence of what works | This session responds to the ‘Leaving no-one behind’ theme. The examples included in this session will all draw attention to the need to focus on inequalities, and the policy ideas and innovations that can be used to reach the very poor. It will feed into the field-building dimension by sharing examples of ‘innovative practice in health systems development’ and highlighting how and where it can be shaped to move towards the UHC goal. | Monday, October 8, 10:00-11:00 | Hall 1 |
Taufique Joarder | Organized Session | Alma Ata jeopardy: A 40th anniversary celebration of a living document’s impact on health systems around the world. | The objective of the session is to refresh participants’ familiarity with the 7 articles of the Alma Ata Declaration as a living breathing and perennially relevant approach to structuring health systems. | Thursday, 11 October, 16:00 – 17:30 | ACC room 1B |