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Now in its third year, the Global Health Council is pleased to again offer an expansion of its D.C.-based Policy Series events to annual conference attendees. These sessions prompt learning and discussion around key issues in the areas of policy, research, advocacy and outreach. We welcome your participation in the series and look forward to your feedback.
Learn more about the Council’s year-round Policy Series events.
| Tuesday, May 29 |
8:30-11:30 am
PS1: Building Momentum: Exploring Strategies for Developing Community Advocacy
Learn from top grassroots organizers around the world about how to work collaboratively on global health advocacy issues. Share your techniques for coalition building, community mobilization, partnership development, consensus building and finding resources.
Facilitators:
Hemant Goswami | presentation
Burning Brain Society
Kathy Bonk | presentation
Communications Consortium Media Center
María Antonieta Alcalde | presentation
International Planned Parenthood Federation
Don Kraus
Citizens for Global Solutions
Simon Wright | presentation
Action for Global Health, Brussels
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1-4 pm
PS2 Getting Your Message Out in a Global Media Landscape
Media and communications experts explain changes and trends in media worldwide and how you can get your messages to your target audience. Learn the techniques and tools you need to increase the global visibility of your work in public health.
Facilitators:
Jeremy Ben-Ami | presentation
Fenton Communications
Mia Malan | presentation
InterNews Network
Adrianna Logalbo
United Nations Foundation
Workshop participants maximum: 100
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| Wednesday, May 30 |
10:30 am-12:30 pm
PS3: Legislative Landscape: 110th Congress
Learn how the U.S. political process really works, why it is important to global health and development, and how you can make your voice heard by U.S. policy-makers.
your voice heard by U.S. policy-makers.
Moderator:
Nicole Bates
Director, Government Relations, Global Health Council
Presenters:
Charles Dujon
Legislative Director, Office of Jesse Jackson Jr.
Shannon Smith
Office of the Honorable Dick Durbin
Shellie Bressler
Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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2:30-4:30 pm
PS4: The Growing Political Controversy around Contraception
Learn about the anti-contraception movement in the United States and how this trend is impacting U.S.-funded international family planning programs and jeopardizing the health of women and children.
Moderator:
Duff G. Gillespie, PhD
Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Presenters:
Celinda Lake | presentation
Lake Research Partners
Valerie DeFillipo | presentation
Director Of Strategic Planning, External Affairs And Communications, International Planned Parenthood Federation
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| Thursday, May 31 |
10:30 am-12:30 pm
PS5: The Countdown to PEPFAR Reauthorization
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is due for reauthorization. Hear advocates' hopes for introducing changes in PEPFAR’s structure and its legislative language on prevention, treatment and gender.
Moderator:
Smita Baruah
Senior Policy Associate, Government Relations, Global Health Council
Presenters:
Ambassador Mark Dybul, Office of U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
Elisha Dunn-Georgiou
SIECUS
Helen Kay Cornman, MS | presentation
HIV/AIDS Specialist, World Learning
Michele Moloney-Kitts
Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
Asia Russell,
Health Global Access Project (GAP)
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2:30-4:30 pm
PS6: Millions of Lives in the Balance: Ending Needless Child Deaths
Learn about the status of global efforts to improve child survival. Where are we making progress and where are we failing ? Learn how we can utilize creative partnerships to make proven and effective solutions available to the communities in need and how we can re-engage leaders in addressing this fundamental public health issue.
Moderator:
Laura Barnitz
Director, Policy Communications, Global Health Council
Presenters:
Andrew E. Barrer, PhD | presentation
Executive Director, U.S. Coalition for Child Survival
Tore Godal, MD, MPH
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Norway
Christian Pitter
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Peter Salama
Chief of Immunization, UNICEF
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| Friday, June 1 |
9 am-Noon
Palladian Ballroom | map
PS7: Research Symposium: Achieving Population Coverage of Child and RH Programs: The Role of Research Partnerships
This symposium will examine how researchers enter into sustained partnerships with interdisciplinary practitioners, government policy-makers, civil society, multilateral and private donors and corporations, and how collaborative efforts to create, implement and evaluate solutions can address global health problems.
Moderator:
Richard Horton, BSc, MB, FRCP
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
Presenters:
Julio J. Frenk, MD | presentation
Senior Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Duff G. Gillespie, PhD | presentation
Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Shams El Arifeen, DrPH
Head, Child Health Programme, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
Gloria Asare | presentation
Family Planning Programme Manager, Ghana Health Service
Mickey Chopra | presentation
Director, Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Council
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10:30 am-12:30 pm
PS8: Health-Care Workers: Meeting the Human Resource Challenge
Learn about the most significant human resource and infrastructure challenges facing health programs in developing countries and about the new initiatives, policies and programs seeking to address them.
Moderator:
Pape Gaye, MBA
President, INTRAHEALTH
Presenters:
Nabeela Ali, | presentation
Chief of Party, PAIMAN Project, John Snow, Inc.
Timothy Kachule | presentation
Project Hope Country Director, Malawi
Pauline Muhuhu | presentation
Best Practices Advisor, Extending Service Delivery Project
Rehana Ahmed | presentation
Reproductive Health Specialist, MDG Center Nairobi
2:45-4:45 pm
PS9: Infectious Diseases: Aligning Policy with Evidence
Hear about publicly and privately funded international programs in malaria, TB and neglected tropical diseases. Learn about the latest research in infectious disease and how, if at all, policy-makers are using science to create and fund programs.
Moderator:
Nicole Bates
Director, Government Relations, Global Health Council
Presenters:
Irene M. Koek, MA | presentation
Chief, Infectious Diseases Division, USAID
Mwele Malecela | presentation
National Program Manager for LF Elimination
Alan Brooks | presentation
Senior Program Officer, Policy And Access, The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative
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