Global Health Inspiration Day 2017: Program

Programme Day 1 - 13th November

8:30 Coffee and registration  
8:45 Welcome  Jeanette H. Magnus, Senior Advisor, Faculty of Medicine
8:50

Global Health at UiO - the virtual global network

  • Andrea S. Winkler, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Director of Centre for Global Health
08:55

One Health

  • The One Health Thinking Chain
  • Tuberculosis: does it fit into the One Health Agenda
  • Moderator: Andrea S. Winkler, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Director of Centre for Global Health
  • Osama Ahmed Hassan Ahmed, Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Fekadu Abebe, Researcher - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
9:25

History and Anthropology

  • Behind the scenes of donor-driven policy intervention
  • The social life of contraceptive and abortion drugs in Burkina Faso
  • Shifting blame: NGOs' behavioral interventions to reduce teenage pregnancies in rural Malawi
  • An Ethnographic Study of Mental Health among Irregular Migrants and at the Health Center for Undocumented Migrants in Norway
  • How can we study movements towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa?
  • Moderator: Christoph Gradmann, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Katerini Storeng, Associate Professor - Centre for Development and Environment    
  • Seydou Drabo, Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Hanneke Pot, Doctoral Research Fellow - Centre for Development and Environment    
  • Christina Brux-Mburu, Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Ruth Prince, Associate Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health

10:30

Infectious Diseases: Tuberculosis (TB) and tropical diseases

  • Historic TB at Kibong’oto Hospital (Tanzania) 1926-1996
  • Protein Acetylation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Fighting active and latent TB                                                   
  • Impaired T cell-monocyte interaction in active TB    
  • Knowledge, attitude and perceived stigma towards tuberculosis among pastoralists; Do they differ from sedentary communities? A comparative cross-sectional study                                                                     
  • Host-directed therapy -new treatment options for resistant TB                                                            
  • From research to clinical practice: Implementation research on Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS)

  • Moderator: Anne Margarita Dyrhol Riise, Associate Professor - Department of Infectious Diseases
  • Christoph Gradmann, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Alemayehu Godana Birhanu, Doctoral Research Fellow - Oslo University Hospital
  • Noelia Alonso Rodriguez, Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Microbiology (Tone Tønjum/TTA)
  • Meseret H. Mekonnen (Anne Spurkeland)
  • Bezawit Temesgen Sima, PhD student, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, UiO
  • Synne Jenum, Postdoctoral Fellow - Oslo University Hospital (Anne Ma Dyrhol-Riise)
  • Eyrun Kjetland, Senior Researcher, Centre for Imported and Tropical Diseases - Oslo University Hospital, Honorary Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
11:45 Lunch. Networking time  
12:15

Health systems and governance

  • What is health systems and global governance? And what does research have to do it?
  • International institutions and global health: conflicts, coordination, and collaboration
  • Power and legitimacy in global nutrition governance
  • Global health security: humanitarian or security policy?
  • Global health security and health systems strengthening: the role of NGOs 
  • NGOs and the transfer of reproductive health policies
  • Incorporating migrant perspectives into health systems research 
  • Panel discussion (15 min): Panel with all presenters with questions from the audience on the brief presentations or any question on health systems and global governance
  • Moderator: Trygve Ottersen, Associate professor - Oslo Group on Global Health Policy. Executive director, Division for Health Services, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
  • Unni Gopinathan, Associate Professor - Norwegian Institute of Public Health
  • Ann Louise Lie, Doctoral Research Fellow - Centre for Development and Environment    
  • Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée, Research Assistant - Centre for Development and Environment    
  • Sonja Kittelsen, Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Maren Olene Kloster, Doctoral Research Fellow - Centre for Development and Environment    
  • Naomi Tschirhart, Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health

13:25

Migrant Health

  • Use of emergency care services by immigrants 
  • A community-based health intervention trial to increase attendance to cervical cancer screening program among immigrants in Norway
  • Immigrant medicine and Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
  • Geographical differences of overweight and obesity in immigrants
  • Vitamin D status in immigrants, is it a public health problem?
  • Moderator: Ahmed Ali Madar, Researcher - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Sven Eirik Ruud, MD, Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of General Practice
  • Samera Azeem Qureshi, MBBS, Researcher - Norwegian Centre for Migration and Minority Health
  • Ernst Kristian Rødland, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health 
  • Soheir Hassan, MD, Doctoral Research Fellow - Faculty of Medicine
  • Kristin Holvik, Senior researcher, PhD, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
14:30

Digital Global Health - Basis for Sustainable Development

  • State-of-Research in Digital health
  • Experiences from digital health projects, e.g. GravidPluss.no
  • Digital Health as catalyst for Digital Societies
  • Moderator: Andrea S. Winkler, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Director of Centre for Global Health
  • Christine Holst, Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Centre for Global Health
  • Mirjam Lukasse, Professor - Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA)
  • Josef Noll, Professor - Department of Technology Systems

15:00

Maternal and Child health

  • When sexuality is a crime - the response to sexual abuse of minors in Kenya
  • Monitoring pregnancy and childbirth - innovations' integration in health services.Tanzania
  • Quality of care in normal birth
  • Adverse outcomes of poor quality of health care for birth: Genital fistulae in Malawi
  • Maternal health at the margins in rural Nicaragua: Reaching the 'last 20 %'
  • Moderator: Johanne Sundby, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Cynthia Wangamati, Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Sara Rivenes Lafontan, Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Centre for Global Health
  • Andrea Solnes Miltenburg, Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Josephine Changole, Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Birgit Kvernflaten, Doctoral Research Fellow - Faculty of Medicine, based at Centre for Development and Environment   
16:15  Networking time (light refreshments)  

Programme Day 2 - 14th November

8:30 Coffee  
9:00

Nutrition - the global issues

  • Nutrition in the first 1000 days
  • Nutrition intervention for pregnant women in Malawi
  • Food and Nutrition Security project
  • Healthy weight management interventions across the life course
  • The human right to diet-related health:  A corporate and national challenge in the UN Nutrition Decade
  • Moderator: Nanna Lien, Professor - Department of Nutrition
  • Evette van Niekerk, Doctoral Research Fellow in Nutritional Sciences - Division Human Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  • Lillian Kaunda, Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Nutrition / Director of Health and Social Services Mzuzu City Council
  • Xikombiso Mbhenyane, Professor - Division Human Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  • Marjanne Senekal, Professor - Division of Human Nutrition, University of Cape Town
  • Wenche Barth Eide, Emerita, Coordinator, 'Food, Human Rights and Corporations' research and action network, University of Oslo
9:55

Non-Communicable Diseases

  • Global overview if NCD, Case of diabetes type-2
  • Global overview of cancer
  • Association of birth weight and CVD's

 

  • Moderator: Ahmed Ali Madar, Researcher - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Gerd Holmboe Ottesen,  Professor Emeritus - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Cecilie Dahl,  Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Fareeha Shaikh, Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health                                                         
10:35

Global Paediatrics

  • Neonatal sepsis and anti­microbial resistance patterns in neonates. A prospective multicentre study in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Moderator: Johanne Sundby, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Ernst Kristian Rødland, Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health    

10:50

Global Mental Health - Focus on Current and Future Research at UiO

  • Global mental health research, now and then 
  • Adolescent violence in post-conflict settings: a study from Indonesia
  • Bridging the gap - information and mental health support to young refugees through chatbots
  • Somatic health complications of psychiatric disorders of immigrants in Southern Oslo
  • CYSTINET-Africa: a multidisciplinary network on neurocysticercosis, a major cause of epilepsy in low income countries.
  • Moderator: Suraj Thapa, Associate Professor - Adult Psychiatry Unit
  • Edvard Hauff, Professor - Adult Psychiatry Unit
  • Fitri Fausiah, Doctoral Research Fellow and psychologist - Faculty of Medicine
  • Akiah Ottesen Berg, Postdoctoral Fellow and psychologist - Division of Mental Health and Addiction
  • Erik Ganesh I. Søegaard, Doctoral Research Fellow and psychiatrist - Faculty of Medicine
  • Andrea S. Winkler, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Director of Centre for Global Health
11:45

Expanding the global health community – what’s next in GH?

Funding opportunities, future careers, education

  • Johanne Sundby, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Christoph Gradmann, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health
  • Andrea S. Winkler, Professor - Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Director of Centre for Global Health
12:15

Lunch

 

 

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