Session Schedule

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Session abstracts

• Tuesday 30 October 10.45–12.15
• Tuesday 30 October 13.30–15.00
• Tuesday 30 October 15.45–17.15
• Wednesday 31 October 08.30–10.00
• Wednesday 31 October 10.45–12.15
• Thursday 1 November 08.30–10.00
• Thursday 1 November 10.45–12.15
• Thursday 1 November 13.30–15.00
• Thursday 1 November 15.45–17.15
• Poster sessions

Tuesday 30 October 10.45–12.15

Parallel session: Child health equity

• Are health interventions being implemented where they are most needed? Lessons from the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy and from the literature
• Trends and determinants of parental care-seeking for sick children: implications for Viet Nam's pro-poor health policies
• Improving access to care for indigent children: increasing enrolment in the PhilHealth Indigent Program

Parallel session: Equity gauge

• Benchmarking the fairness of health sector reform in the Philippines
• The Equity Gauge approach to enhancing equity of access to public health services: research challenges for health in developing countries from the African Gauges' experience

Parallel session: Health information for decision-making

• Qualitative and quantitative research to assess vital registration and compile vital statistics in Viet Nam
• Verifying causes of death: activities to strengthen vital registration in Thailand
• Which questions best identify adult AIDS deaths using verbal autopsy tools?

Parallel session: Incentives for equitable product development

• Progress on a new paradigm for financing research and development
• Medical progress: must the poor be excluded?

Parallel session: National health research: developing a policy framework

• National health research systems: developing the policy framework

Tuesday 30 October 13.30–15.00

Parallel session: Responsible journalism: media and health research

• Health journalists: mistrusted and sensationalist, or important allies for researchers? Examining the barriers to effective health journalism

Parallel session: Equity in research

• Strengthening equity-based health research systems at the local level: the Brazilian experience
• Systematic literature review on vulnerable groups in Mexico
• HIV research and the BIAS FREE Framework (Building an Integrative Analytical System For Recognizing and Eliminating inEquities)

Parallel session: Financing health systems

• Learning from experience: health-care financing in low- and middle-income countries
• Equity versus efficiency in reducing child mortality in the developing world
• Impact of poverty reduction policy on commune-level health care in Thai Nguyen Province, Viet Nam

Parallel session: Sexual and reproductive health research

• Research to decrease inequities for mothers, neonates and children
• Building consensus to improve care for sexually transmitted infections: engaging with the private sector in Botswana, Namibia and Zambia
• Equitable access to sexual and reproductive health for marginalized adolescents in Argentina

Tuesday 30 October 15.45–17.15

Parallel plenary: The health system in China

• Reforming health systems in China: key issues and challenges

Parallel plenary: The health system in china

• A national essential health services package
• Effect evaluation of the Urban Health and Poverty Project Medical Assistance Scheme

Wednesday 31 October 08.30–10.00

Plenary: Innovation in research for equitable access

• The Noordwijk Medicines Agenda

Wednesday 31 October 10.45–12.15

Parallel session: Access to information: capacity strengthening

• An innovative approach to improving public communication skills among researchers
• Communicating research: the use of Aizi Ni Wo Tan (AIDS Action, China Edition) as a networking tool for building bridges between research, policy and practice in HIV prevention and care in China
• The Cochrane Developing Countries Network: an initiative to improve equitable access to knowledge and information and to its management

Parallel session: Aid as a determinant of health

• The formulation of national health research agendas and research networks in developing and developed countries: state-of-the-art and possibilities
• The impact of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) on the HIV epidemic in Ukraine: success or failure?

Parallel session: Gender equity

• Gender and health equity interventions in poor regions of China and India: a comparison
• Violence against women and reproductive health: prevention, protection and action
• Gender and health: emergent issues beyond equitable access

Parallel session: Framework for measuring access

• How can the concept of `access' be researched in a policy-relevant way?
• Community-managed pharmacies: an alternative to improving access to essential drugs for the rural poor in southeastern Mexico?
• Community evaluation of an integrated health access system in Cameroon

Parallel session: National health research: innovative communication

• National health research systems: innovative approaches to research communication

Parallel session: Resources for research

• International health research spending by the United States National Institutes of Health

Thursday 1 November 08.30–10.00

Plenary: Research on determinants of health equity

• Social responsibility and health

Thursday 1 November 10.45–12.15

Parallel session: Chronic diseases and injuries

• A research roadmap to address chronic diseases risk factors across multiple countries
• Global research priorities in noncommunicable diseases
• The risk of night-time motorcycle crash among motorcyclists using rear-end reflectors in Malaysia

Parallel session: National health research: addressing equity

• National health research systems: strengthening their equity focus
• Equity in the National Health Research and Technology Development System, Costa Rica
• The role of civil society in putting equity on the research agenda

Parallel session: Operationalizing research for neglected diseases

• The need for translational research to generate the evidence for rational and efficient introduction of new vaccines: the success story of the International Vaccine Institute in Asia
• Lymphatic Filariasis: exemplifying the research, policy, practice continuum in a global programme
• Establishing the Chinese Clinical Trial Registration and Publishing Collaboration
• Equitable access to diagnostics: promises and challenges of translating research on use of rapid syphilis tests into policy and practice

Parallel session: Political determinants

• The role of health systems in addressing health equity
• The politics of health worker migration in the Commonwealth
• `Up to our ears in ... ': political factors determining water and solid waste management issues in Karachi, Pakistan

Parallel session: Research capacity strengthening and health policy and system research

• Enhancing capacity to use health policy and systems research evidence in policy-making
• Strengthening capacity for health policy and systems research: an agenda for progress
• Enhancing capacity for generating health policy and systems research knowledge in developing countries

Parallel session: Research priorities

• Priorities and interactions of a health research system in a developing country: a Cameroon experience
• Going back to where it all started: the Philippine experience in priority-setting and agenda advocacy
• Health research priorities in Argentina: how to get them funded

Parallel session: Research strategies for neglected diseases

• The Wellcome Trust: strategic partnerships
• Research, technological development and innovation in neglected diseases: new strategies adopted by Brazilian funding agencies
• Towards equitable access to drugs for diseases of the poor: some new research and development initiatives from India

Thursday 1 November 13.30–15.00

Parallel session: Violence against women

• Sexual violence and women's responses: round table
• An overview of sexual violence against women and children in China

Parallel session: Equity in research governance

• Lessons from 15 countries: Global HIV/AIDS Initiatives Research Network
• Centres, peripheries, academic colonization and `national science': the case of Peru
• Research health disparities among women of colour in the United States

Parallel session: International initiatives

• Control policy optimization for SARS and other emerging infections (SARSTRANS)
• Country reports on health and poverty

Parallel session: Mental health research

• What could be done to improve the accessibility of mental health care in Latin America and Caribbean countries?
• Youth mental health interventions in the West Bank: from the bottom upwards
• A collaborative research project for mental health human resources improves care and outcomes for depression in clinical sites in Cuba

Parallel session: National health research: experiences from the Western Pacific

• National health research system analysis in Viet Nam
• National health research systems analysis in Mongolia
• Health research systems analysis in Shanghai, China
• National health research systems analysis in the Philippines
• National health research systems: analyses from the Western Pacific

Parallel session: Policy coherence for product development and access

• Introducing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines in the developing world: bridging reproductive health and the global response to HIV
• Ensuring access to new tuberculosis drugs: results from a global analysis
• New malaria products: addressing the bottlenecks

Parallel session: Poverty and illness: towards evidence-based interactions

• Links between poverty and major illness in poor rural areas of China
• The role of demographic sites in designing evidence-based health interventions: experiences from Bangladesh
• Institutions and the implementation of pro- poor interventions in rural China

Parallel session: Research on new demographics

• The social aspects of cancer control and demographic transition
• Urban poverty and social exclusion: challenges ahead
• Promotion of international collaborative research related to children's health and the environment

Thursday 1 November 15.45–17.15

Parallel plenary: Globalization and health

• Globalization and health equity: innovation for an interconnected world
• Time for a paradigm shift

Parallel plenary: Maternal deaths

• Clustering of caesarean deliveries in developing countries: lack of access for some and overprovision for others
• How effective are national programmes on maternal and child health (MCH) in promoting women's equitable access to health care?

Poster sessions

Access and equity

• Living standard measurement surveys, reported health and equity in the Caribbean: implications for health policy
• Brazilian information system on science, technology and innovation in health
• Rural-urban migrant health and migrant access to public health services in China: a case study of a migrant community in Beijing
• Are the reforms of the health sector responding to Latin America's health challenges? The case of Mexico's Seguro Popular
• Inclusive health research for equitable access to health

Access to information: capacity strengthening

• Regional strategy for knowledge management to support public health

Aid as a determinant of health

• Post-tsunami rehabilitation of the health sector: the Sri Lankan experience in handling donor support

Capacity development

• Capacity-building in specialities towards global health research
• Assessing health-care providers' capacities to acquire, adapt and use health policy and systems research in Mexico
• Building capacity of health managers in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
• The challenge of strengthening district health systems through operational research management by the local government in Tanzania

Child health equity

• Qualitative research shows detailed processes, interventions, challenges and self-reported changes associated with Health-Promoting Schools in China
• Childhood drowning in low- and middle-income countries: the need for an intervention study
• A randomized policy experiment in the Philippines

Decision-making

• Exploring demand for health research by national policy-makers: an empirical approach
• A means of putting research information into practice: application of the project cycle management method to evidence-based district health management
• Innovations in evidence-informed health system decision-making: multi-country explorations
• Use of information and research for decision-making and policy formulation: preventing maternal mortality
• Evidence-based policy development: the development of a National Diabetes Control Programme in Cameroon
• The Kerala Tele-Health and Medical Education Project: experiences from a tele-specialist centre
• Researcher and implementer attributes for greater knowledge translation efficiency in the context of the Zambian public health system: experiences from a pilot project of the African Health Research Forum (AfHRF)
• Summary measures of population health and the Indian health service: strengthening the interface between epidemiology and decision-making
• Influencing health policies with evidence

Disability

• Disaster management and disability: promoting a research agenda

Diseases

• Equitable distribution of health-care measures in India: the need for integration of social parameters with existing disease control measures
• Risk of heart disease and stroke due to smoking in the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific and South-East Asia regions
• Commitment of countries with high incidence of malaria towards research of the disease: profile from Medline
• Paragonimiasis ­ a diagnostic confusion for tuberculosis

Equity in research governance

• SPHERE: strengthening public health in the European region

Financing health systems

• Extension of social protection in health in Latin America and the Caribbean: bridging research and practice
• Equity of skilled delivery care in developing countries: financing and policy determinants
• Feasibility of demand-side financing in maternal health-care services in rural Bangladesh
• Mobilizing research to design and implement a pro- poor voucher system in Uttar Pradesh
• Costing different strategies to improve the vital statistics system in Andhra Pradesh, India
• Health financing and social protection in Latin America

Gender equity

• Improving gender equity in basic health services through the Reproductive Health Improvement Project (RHIP): a Gender and Health Equity Network (GHEN) China case study

Health systems analysis

• Analysis of a sectorial fund in health and social security research after four years of operations: is Mexico's research funding policy adequate?
• An analytical study for governance of malaria based on research papers, with special emphasis on East Asia

The health system in china

• Improving the social responsibility of public hospitals in China
• Health financing systems and health-care access
• Separation of regulation and application in health systems in China
• Does rural health insurance bring equity of access to and utilization of health services? A comparison between China and Viet Nam
• Health payment-induced poverty and financial protection in rural China: evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Shandong province
• The mechanisms of motivation of medical care workers in public hospitals
• Research on the policy process of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme and Medical Assistance scheme in China
• Study on the construction of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme management and executive system
• Chinese health system reform: a systematic review of policy and experience since 1949
• Investigation of socioeconomic characteristics of chronic diseases in low-income groups in Jiangsu Province, China

Health promotion

• Mapping national health promotion capacity in the Asia Pacific region: baseline research for investments in system infrastructure and resources

Innovation systems

• The introduction of new health technologies in India

Inter-institutional partnerships

• Inter-institutional partnerships: a tool for promoting research and health equity
• New sources of artemisinin to reduce economic barriers to artemisinin-based combination therapies access
• Developing research partnerships to bring change in policy and practice: experiences from Research for Equity and Community Health (REACH) Trust, Malawi
• Stakeholder analysis at the research-policy interface: enhancing equity in health systems research in six low- and middle-income countries

Issues on HIV

• Gossips, rumours and `making me funny': exploring the role of stigma and its impact on disclosure reported by individuals attending an antiretroviral drug clinic in Cape Town, South Africa
• Barriers and enablers to accessing and adhering to antiretroviral therapy in Thyolo: a human rights perspective
• Estimating the impact of HIV vaccines: Uganda
• Universal access to treatment: who sets the agenda? Whose voice is heard?
• Rapid assessment and response formulation for HIV infection among migrant workers returning from the Middle East to Pakistan
• Distributional equity in demand-driven HIV programmes: lessons from Malawi
• A management tool and process to improve access to high-quality HIV and TB services
• The effects of global HIV initiatives on equitable access to HIV services at the sub-national level: Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine
• Socioeconomic disparities in access to HIV treatment programmes in resource-limited settings
• The benefits of conducting HIV vaccine studies in developing countries
• The cost of AIDS care in China: are free antiretroviral drugs enough?

Maternal deaths

• Measuring the relationship between gender and maternal death using a new gender index
• Targeting women for maternal health-care services in urban poor communities in the Philippines

Measuring access

• Spatial planning of health-care facilities and equal access to primary health care: a case of GIS (Geographic Information System) use in Bangkok

Mental health research

• Mental health research in Latin America and the Caribbean: devising mechanisms for capacity strengthening
• Health research initiatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Operationalizing research for neglected diseases

• Strategic demand forecasting for a future first generation HIV vaccine: shaping health policy to maximize access to a new health technology

Patient safety

• Patients' involvement in patient safety research in Africa
• `Patients for Patient Safety': an initiative to improve equitable access to knowledge and information

Policy coherence for product development and access

• An assessment of the impact of a DOTS programme in North Western Province, Sri Lanka
• Researching linkages between the right to health and TRIPS: developing normative frameworks and policy tools to promote access to essential medicines
• Strengthening alignment of global programmes focused on tuberculosis control: congruence of proposals to the Global Fund with the Stop TB Strategy
• How sound are diagnostic studies in China? Implications of diagnostic studies on dot-immunogold filtration assay to diagnose tuberculosis
• A model for economic evaluation of a new pharmaceutical product

Political determinants

• Health promotion and research priorities in Brazil
• The BIAS FREE Framework: a tool to be adopted by The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO), Uganda
• Social determinants of health and priority research: challenges to equity in Brazil

Primary health care

• Organization, coverage strategies and financial sustainability of the immunization programme in Paraguay
• Equity gaps in access to primary health-care centres in Argentina
• Barriers of access to social protection in health for unemployed workers in Medellin, Colombia
• Unequal distribution of childhood malnutrition in Iran: contribution of the primary health-care system in addressing basic determinants
• European Union partnerships for the delivery of the primary health care programme in South Africa

Research for improved decision-making

• The use of research in international organizations' recommendations and their impact on health policy in a sample of low- and middle-income countries

Research priorities

• Collaboration and `visibility' of health research in the Western Pacific Region
• Priority-setting for health technology assessment in health research: trying to reach equity

Research strategies for neglected diseases

• Research on medicine prices reveals problems in equitable access

Resources for research

• A proposal for a health research and development monitoring system in Brazil

Responsible journalism: media and health research

• The unique role of the media in addressing the `10/90' gap
• HIV reporting in Zimbabwe
• What the papers say: a comparative global analysis of HIV and TB in print media

Sexual and reproductive health research

• Ensuring access: the new reproductive health target for Millennium Development Goal 5
• Decision-making processes related to family planning and the use of contraceptives among Muslim couples in an urban area of Sri Lanka

Social science research

• Community-based Participatory Research, an approach towards equity in developing countries: an Iran experience
• Socioeconomic factors and cancer mortality