IFGH 2012: Conference Presentations, Day 2

FRIDAY 3^RD FEBRUARY

8:00-8:45am – Beaux Lane House

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

                             Hosted by Dochas and IFGH (pre-confirmed participants only due to space limitations)

8:30-8:50am –Global Health Village (Exam Hall)

Registration

9:00-10:30am – O’Flanagan Theatre

Welcome and opening remarks

Prof Hannah McGee (RCSI, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

                     Chair:  Prof Ruairi Brugha (RCSI, Head Dept of Epi and Public Health Medicine)

                             Strengthening and supporting the health workforce

                             Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng, (Minister of Health,  Lesotho) – Audio

                             Ms Sheila Dickson, (President, INMO) – Audio

                             Prof Kieran Murphy (President, Irish Medical Council) – Audio

                             Discussion

                             Michael O’Connor (Manager of civil society and private sector partnerships, GFATM) – Audio

                             Dr Vincent O’Neill, (Irish Aid)

                             Discussion

10:30-11:00am – Global Health Village (Exam Hall)

Tea & Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 – Parallel Sessions (Tutorial Rooms 1, 2&3, 4)

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

Chair: Marc Mitchell, Co-Chair: Elaine Byrne

Everd Maniple Bikaitwoha – Human Resource for Health (HRH) Database Linkage and

                                Harmonisation in Uganda (p. 104)

Ayat AbuAgla – From Dream to Reality’ The National HRH observatory- Sudan Success story

(p. 100)

Abobakr Shadad – Novel approach for North-South partnerships for Training & Capacity-

                                building utilizing an Electronic Health Library  (E-HL) (p. 106)

Bob Jolliffe – Geography, dependency and hidden labour in national health management

                                information systems (HMIS) (p. 103)

Panel Discussion

Parallel Session 2: Ethical Health Worker Recruitment & Migration

Chair: Anne Matthews, Co-Chair: Mubashar Sheikh

Anne Matthews – Introduction to theme and link with DCU symposium

Ruairi Brugha – WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health

                                Personnel – implications for Ireland (p. 93)

Niamh Humphries – Nurse Migration and Health Workforce Planning in the Irish Context

                                (p. 95)

Ruairi Brugha – Trends, 2000-2010, in country of qualification of doctors registered in Ireland

                                (p. 94)

Anne Matthews – 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

                                (p. 97)

Panel Discussion

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

Chair: Nuha Ibrahim, Co-Chair: Ogenna Uduma

Richard Laku – Beyond a human resources crisis: the quality of health services in South Sudan

(p. 74)

Elizabeth Ekirapa – Changing incentives for health workers through a voucher scheme for

                               maternal health services (p. 69)

Camille Boostrom – Key Challenges in Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme: Lessons from

                                the Field (p. 66)

Kate Coleman – Economically sustainable high quality career paths for African eye care

workers (p. 68)

Donal O’Mathuna – Disaster bioethics: preparing health workers for ethical dilemmas (p. 83)

12:00-12:30 O’Flanagan Theatre, John Kevany Lecture: ‘Human Resources for Inclusive Health’

Chair: Dr Diarmuid O’Donovan, NUI Galway and Director of Public Health in the Health Service

Executive (HSE West, Galway)

                               Prof Mac MacLachlan – Audio

14:15-15:45 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session 1: Mobile Phone Technologies and Health Workers

Chair: Tom O’Callaghan

Frédérique Vallières– supporting & Strengthening MNCH services using mobile phones: A

research protocol

Marc Mitchell – D-tree decision support to Community Health Workers

Response: Dave O’Byrne, Lesley Anne Long and Bob Jolliffe

Panel Discussion

Parallel Session 2: North-South Partnerships – Education, Training & Capacity Building (Focus on

education)

Chair: Farid Lamara, Co-Chair: Diarmuid McClean

Eric O’Flynn – Addressing surgical manpower in Sub Saharan Africa: an intercollegiate

                                partnership between RCSI and COSECSA (p. 29)

Elaine Byrne – Contextuality of relationships between researchers and decision makers in

                                strengthening health research capacity (p. 20)

Honorati Masanja – Health Systems Strengthening for Equity (HSSE): The Power and Potential

                                of Mid-level Providers (p. 79)

Heather Ignatius – Capacity building through TB regimen development (p. 31)

Panel Discussion

Parallel Session 3: Health Worker Motivation & Retention & Task Shifting

Chair: Eilish McAuliffe

Eilish McAuliffe – An Investigation of the Job Preferences of Mid-Level Healthcare Providers in

                                Sub-Saharan Africa: Results from Large Sample Discrete Choice Experiments in Malawi,

                                Mozambique and Tanzania (p. 78)

Charles Norman – The Relative Importance of Different Motivational Determinants for

                                Different Categories of Health Workers in South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi (p. 65)

Anna Awor – Measuring Health Workforce Distribution in Uganda (p. 62)

John Kadzandira – The quagmire of task shifting for service quality and coverage: preliminary

                                findings from 2 districts of Malawi (p. 73)

Panel Discussion

15:45 – 16:00 Global Health Village (Exam Hall), Tea & Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:30 O’Flanagan Theatre, Closing Remarks

Chair: Dr. Eilish McAuliffe

                                Ruari Brugha

David Weakliam: Conference Statement

Anne Matthews: Closing Remarks