Subject: FYI: IHD presentations at APHA 2015
From: Liz Nugent <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:55:57 +0000

We are pleased to announce the following abstract acceptances for the annual American Public Health Association meeting in Chicago, Nov 1-14, 2015. IHD will be represented at the conference along with colleagues from Abt’s US Health Division, Social & Economic Policy Division (SEP), and subsidiary SRBI.

Orals

1.       Gafar Alawode– Implementing health sector coordination conceptual framework for aid effectiveness: experience from Kaduna State, Nigeria (withdrawn)

2.       Amina Aminu – Using evidence and incremental changes to influence policy choices on human resources for health

3.       Amina Aminu – Innovative model for promoting citizens voice and enabling greater accountability in marginalized and low-resource settings

4.       Beth Brennan – The rise of vector resistance and insecticide costs:  An assessment of insecticide change for indoor residual spraying and malaria burden in Zimbabwe

5.       Elana Fiekowsky – Can a malaria service delivery project improve gender equality?

6.       Elizabeth Ohadi – Assessing public hospitals’ new outsourcing policy in Botswana

7.       Michael Okia – Pyrethroid and DDT resistance in anopheles gambiae in Uganda

8.       Lauren Rosapep – How the customer-medicine seller dynamic shapes treatment of pediatric diarrhea: A qualitative study

Posters

1.       Heather Cogswell – Outsourcing services to add value and improve efficiency among public hospitals in Botswana

2.       Altea Cico – Leveraging technology solutions to deliver integrated patient-centered health services

3.       Mike Egboh – Employing strategic alliances and unconventional advocacy strategies for health reforms in Nigeria

Waitlist

·         Gafar Alawode –  From community to the health facility: An innovative approach for tackling intra partum and postpartum hemorrhage in rural Nigeria (withdrawn)

Questions, comments, or updates, please let me know.

Liz Nugent | Senior Communications Manager | Abt Associates

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