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Thursday 2nd February

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Professor Cathal Kelly, CEO, RCSI
Chair: Dr. David Weakliam, Chair, Irish Forum for Global Health
Minister Joe Costello, Minister of State for Trade and Development
Mr. Cathal Magee, CEO, Health Services Executive
Dr. Mubashar Sheikh, Executive Director, Global Health Workforce Alliance
Professor Eilish McGovern, President, RCSI

Responding to Current Challenges in the Human Resources for Health Crisis

Chair: Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng, Minister of Health, Leostho
Ms. Dorothy Ngoma, Executive Director of the National Organization of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi and Oxfam Ambassador
Dr. Tom O'Callaghan, CEO of the iheed Institute
Discussion

Parallel Session 1 (AM): North South Partnerships - Education, Training & Capacity Building

Chair: David Weakliam
Michael Earley, (p. 21), 'The burden of facial clefting and how its global impact can be addressed'
Kieran O'Driscoll, (p. 24), 'The Institute of ENT and Audiology in Zambia'
Tony Ryan, 10 steps to an International Partnership
Farid Lamara, ESTHER Alliance
Panel Discussion

Parallel Session 2 (AM): Community-Bases Responses

Chair: Jim Clarken
Enida Friel, Introduction to theme and link with DCU symposium
Gwyneth Cotes, (p. 41), 'Effectiveness and sustainability of an integrated Care Group model in delivering community health services'
Khalifa Elmusharaf, (p. 44), 'Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation Research (PEER) empowers marginalized women to engage in Community Directed Reproductive Health Interventions'
Adrianna Murphy, (p. 57), 'Using Community Health Workers to Manage Hypertension in Urban India: A Cost effectiveness Analysis'
Enida Friel, (p. 46), 'Public Health Advocacy in Low Income Settings: Views and Experiences on Effective Strategies and Evaluation of Health Advocates in Malawi'
Panel Discussion

Parallel Session 3 (AM): Health Worker Motivation & Retention & Task Shifting

Chair: Anne Mathews
Jennifer Weiss, (p. 89), 'A model for motivation of Community Health Workers'
Helen Prytherch, (p. 85), 'Influences on the motivation, performance and job satisfaction of primary health care providers in rural Tanzania'
Posy Bidwell, (p. 63), 'The Implementation Challenges of Improving Motivation through better financial incentives in South Africa, Malawi and Tanzania'
Tavares Madede, (p. 86), 'Motivating and Retaining Mid-level Cadres in Obstetric Services'
Breda Gahan, (p. 71), 'PlHIV as Peer Counsellors in first level Health Care Facilities in Haiti'
Ian Hodgson, (p. 72), 'Networks of People living with HIV: strengthening community responses to HIV in Uganda'
Enida Friel, (p. 46), 'Public Health Advocacy in Low Income Settings: Views and Experiences on Effective Strategies and Evaluation of Health Advocates in Malawi'
Panel Discussion

Oral Poster Sessions

Chair: Aisling Walsh, Co-Chair: Nuha Ibrahim
Khalifa Elmusharaf, (p. 43), 'Innovative Participatory Health Education 'IPHE': an approach to capacity strengthening for researchers and policy makers'
John Kadzandira, (p. 49), 'Create CBOs or no funding for HIV work' The case of external funding on community HIV response in Malawi'
Rose Luz, (p. 56), 'Community-driven Scale-Up of Community Case Management'
Posy Bidwell, (p. 92), 'The dynamics of temporary doctor migration: the experience of South African doctors working in Ireland'

Parallel Session 1 (PM): North-South Partnerships - Education, Training, & Capacity Building (focus on education)

Noel Murphy, Co-Chair: Danny Edwards
Lesley Anne Long, (p. 25), 'Turning the HEAT up for community health workers'
Elsheikh Badr, (p. 19), 'Sudan academy of health sciences - an innovative response to health workforce crisis'
Everd Maniple Bikaitwoha, (p. 18), 'PhD programme for Health Systems Research Capacity Strengthening in Africa'
Aisling Lavelle, (p. 25), 'The impact of geographical and cultural translocation on students in a western medical school'
Fiona MacLeod, (p. 27), 'Moving Mountains to Develop Public Health Knowledge and Skills in Uganda and Ireland'
Abobakr Shadad, (p. 30), 'An initiative for training collaboration between An Irish and Sudanese multidisciplinary diabetes centre'
Ogenna Uduma, (p. 32), 'The international doctorate in global health: building capacity for health system research'
Panel Discussion

Parallel Session 2 (PM): Community-Based Responses (focus on strengthening community health systems)

Chair: Louis Da Gama, Co-Chair: Nadine Ferris France
Aisling Walsh, (p. 59), 'Sustainability of community based organisations for HIV/AIDS care and support services in Zambia'
Brian van Wyk, (p. 60), 'Health systems barriers to adherence to antiretroviral treatment programme in rural South Africa'
Carlos Bruen, (p. 39), 'Increasing Country & Community Involvement in Global Health Policy Processes? The Case of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria'
Breda Gahan, (p. 40), 'People living with HIV in Orissa State, India supporting others living with HIV'
Duaa Abu-Sin, (p. 42), 'University Community Partnership Project: Community Selection Criteria and Readiness Assessment'

Parallel Session 3 (PM): Health Worker Motivation & Retention & Task Shifting (focus on mid-level providers)

Chair: Eilish McAuliffe
Mohsin Sidat, (p. 88), Expected to deliver: Alignment of regulation, training, and actual performance of emergency obstetric care providers in Malawi and Tanzania'
Susan Bradley, (p. 67), 'An in-depth exploration of health worker supervision in Malawi and Tanzania'
Henry Mollel, (p. 75), 'Who is doing what? Performance of the emergency obstetric signal functions by non-physician clinicians and nurse-midwives in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania''
Juzer Lotya, (p. 76), 'Addressing Malawi's human resources capacity to address obstetrics and neonatal care'
Panel Discussion

Film Viewing

Chair: David Weakliam
His Excellency A.J.D. Ndou, Introduction
"The Motherland Tour - A Journey of African Women with Yvonne Chaka Chaka"

Annual Irish Aid Professor Father Michael Kelly Lecture: Strengthening the Health Workforce to Respond to HIV and Other Major Diseases

Chair: Irish Aid
Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng, Minister of Health, Lesotho
Professor Father Michael Kelly, Zambia
Yvonne Chaka Chaka, South African Singer, UNICEF and Roll Back Malaria Ambassador and UN Envoy for Africa

Friday 3rd February

Dochas and IFGH Irish civil society breakfast meeting with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria

Welcome and Opening Remarks (Day 2): Strengthening and supporting the health workforce

Professor Hannah McGee, RCSI, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Chair: Professor Ruairi Brugha, RCSI, Head Department of Epi and Public Health Medicine
Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng, Minister of Health, Lesotho
Ms. Sheila Dickson, President, INMO
Professor Kieran Murphy, President, Irish Medical Council
Michael O'Connor, Manager of civil society and private sector partnerships, GFATM
Dr. Vincent O'Neill, Irish Aid
Discussion

Parallel Session 1 (AM): Novel Technologies for Human Resources Training & Management

Chair: Marc Mitchell, Co-Chair: Elaine Byrne
Everd Maniple Bikaitwoha, (p. 104), 'Human Resources for Health (HRH) Database Linkage and Harmonisation in Uganda'
Ayat AbuAgla, (p. 100), 'From Dream to Reality - The National HRH observatory - Sudan Success story'
Abobakr Shadad, (p. 106), 'Novel approach for North-South partnerships for Training & Capacity-building utilizing an Electronic Health Library (E-HL)'
Bob Jolliffe, (p. 103), 'Geography, dependency and hidden labour in national health management information systems (HMIS)'
Panel Discussion

Parallel Session 2 (AM): Ethical Health Worker Recruitment & Migration

Chair: Anne Matthews
Ruairi Brugha, (p. 93), 'WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel - implications for Ireland'
Niamh Humphries, (p. 95), 'Nurse Migration and Health Workforce Planning in the Irish Context'
Ruairi Brugha, (p. 94), 'Trends, 2000-2010, in country of qualification of doctors registered in Ireland'
Anne Matthews (p. 97), 'An exploration of the hospital and ward factors associated with high levels of overseas-trained nurses in general hospitals in Ireland: using Irish RN4CAST study results'
Panel Discussion

Parallel Session 3 (AM): Health Worker Motivation, Retention & Task Shifting

Chair: Nuha Ibrahim, Co-Chair: Ogenna Uduma
Richard Laku, (p. 74), 'Beyond a human resources crisis: the quality of health services in South Sudan'
Elizabeth Ekirapa, (p. 69), 'Changing incentives for health workers through a voucher scheme for maternal health services'
Camille Boostrom, (p. 66), 'Key Challenges in Ethiopia's Health Extension Programme: Lessons from the Field'
Kate Coleman, (p. 68), 'Economically sustainable high quality career paths for African eye care workers'
Donal O'Mathuna, (p. 83), 'Disaster bioethics: preparing health workers for ethical dilemmas'

John Kevany Lecture: 'Human Resources for Inclusive Health'

Chair: Dr. Diarmuid O'Donovan, NUI Galway and Director of Public Health in the Health Services Executive (HSE West, Galway)
Professor Mac MacLachlan, Trinity College Dublin

Parallel Session 1 (PM): Mobile Phone Technologies and Health Workers