Global Health SIG
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Come and join the Global Health SIG at PAS for our annual program! This year's theme will be:
"Strengthening Capacities in Research, Service, and Education
Through Global Academic Partnerships"
Saturday, May 4 2013, 8:30 - 11:30 am
Pediatric Academic Societies Conference, Washington DC
Washington Convention Center, Room 154A
| 8:30 am | WELCOME |
| 8:35 am | GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD 2013 GH Research Awardee & Award Presentation Ruth Kihari, MBChB, MMED Study: "Phone Based Counseling Supporting Primiparous Women to Exclusively Breastfeed" Litein Mission Hospital, Kericho, Kenya; Presentation: TBD |
| 9:05 am | KEY NOTE SPEAKER Fitzhugh Mullan, MD "Medical Education Scale Up in Africa: Notes from the Field" Murdock Professor, Medicine/Health Policy, George Washington School of Public Health Professor, Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine Principal Investigator - Sub-Saharan African Medical Schools Study (SAMSS), Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Coordinating Center Former Director, National Health Service Corps |
| 10:10 am | GLOBAL HEALTH PANEL "What are the Ingredients to Successful International Collaborations? Voices from Pediatric Leadership" Roseda Marshall, MD, FAAP, FWACP, MPH - Liberia Assistant Professor, AM Dogliotti College of Medicine of University of Liberia Director, Pediatrics at JFK Memorial Medical Center, Monrovia, Liberia President of Liberia's Graduate Medical Education Council Andrew Steenhoff, MBBCH, DCH - Botswana-UPenn Partnership Associate Country Director, Research Director, Pediatric Program Co-Director, International Core of the Penn Center for AIDS Research Jane Aceng, MBBCH - Uganda Ministry of Health - TBC Director General, Health Services, Uganda Ministry of Health |
| 11:20 am-11:30 am | Discussions and Closing |
SIG Co-Chairs:
Cynthia Howard
drcindy@umn.edu
Mirzada Kurbasic
mirzada.kurbasic@louisville.edu
Suzinne Pak-Gorstein
spakgor@u.washington.edu
Yvonne Vaucher
yvaucher@ucsd.edu
PAS 2012 Meeting Presentation
IH SIG Program 2012
Public Health Implication of Sex Trafficking
by Jhumka Gupta
Human Trafficking: The Fastest-Growing Criminal Industry Worldwide and the Role of the Physician in Turning the Tide
by Reena Isaac
Pediatric Tuberculosis - Indian Perspective
by Prithi Inamdar
PAS 2011 Meeting Presentation
Respiratory Disease in the Developing World: The ARI Story
by Steve Berman
Hati Report
by Judith Palfrey
Positive Progress for Haitti's Children in Past Year
by Bronwen Anders and Jessy Colimon Adrien
Community based management of severe pneumonia with oral antibiotics (Amoxil) through Lady Health Workers in rural Pakistan
by Sajid Bashir Soofi
Birth Asphyxia in Tanzania
by Neema Kayange
PAS 2010 Meeting Presentation
Problems of Physical and Cognitive Disabilities for Children who Experience Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
by Karen Olness
Haiti Post Earthquake Disaster
by Jean William Pape
Haiti and the Children
Post Earthquake
by Marlene Goodfriend
The Situation of People with Disabilities in Haiti
by Luisa Roy Oriol
International Advocacy: From one child to a world of children focus on Haiti
by Bronwen Anders
PAS 2009 Meeting Presentation
Nutrition interventions that impact on mothers and newborns: recent advances
by Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Health services, infant and young child feeding in Ethiopia
by Yeshiwas Amsalu
Canadian Rural Health Initiative in China
by Shoo K Lee
Previous Newsletters
Current SIG Co-Chairs:
Cynthia Howard, MD
717 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Phone: (612) 625-8384
drcindy@umn.edu
Mirzada Kurbasic, MD
2209 Woodford Pl.
Louisville, KY 40205
Phone: (502) 629-8229
mirzada.kurbasic@louisville.edu
Suzinne Pak-Gorstein, MD, PhD, MPH
6016 First Ave, NW
Seattle, WA 98107
Phone: (206) 679-2460
spakgor@u.washington.edu
Yvonne Vaucher, MD, MPH
607 Fern Glen
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: (619) 543-3759
yvaucher@ucsd.edu
