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Management Sciences for Health is sponsoring and participating in the 38th Global Health Council Meeting in Washington, DC, June 13-17. If you are attending the conference, please visit our booth #308 and join us at these events on Tuesday June 14, 2011.  

Please join us for a panel discussion on Tuesday, June 14, from 3:30-4:30pm:  Please, No Mega-Funds: Building Stronger Health Systems to Expand NCD Coverage 

Panelists: 

• Felicia Knaul,PhD, Director, Harvard Global Equity Initiative; Founder, Tómatelo a Pecho 
• Leslie Ramsammy,MD (invited), Minister of Health, Guyana
• Herb Riband, MedTronic, Vice President, External Affairs 
  
• Debbie Birx, MD, Centers for Disease Control, Director, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health 
• Claudine Humure, cancer survivor, Rwanda 

Moderator:

• Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH, President & CEO, Management Sciences for Health    

Sponsored by: Management Sciences for Health & Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Secretariat of the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries

MSH cordially invites you to a reception to celebrate MSH's 40 years of closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Please join CEO Jonathan D. Quick and invited guests from Afghanistan, Sudan, and more.  

Reception:
  40 Years of Strengthening Health Systems for
Greater Health Impact  

Tuesday, June 14, 2011
7:00pm-9:00pm
Blue Room
Omni Shoreham Hotel  

Since 1971, MSH has been building local capacity and strengthening health systems to improve the quality and accessibility of health services. MSH's whole of society approach in more than 130 developing countries supports working shoulder-to-shoulder with people in households, communities, health facilities and governments. Relying on best practices, MSH strengthens and integrates services across all health system building blocks and health areas toward the goal of universal health coverage.

No registration required. Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

Musical entertainment will be provided.

MSH PRESENTATIONS:

TUESDAY

Poster: Magnitude of and Contributing Factors to Antibacterial Resistance in Ethiopia
5:00-7:00 PM, Blue Room Prefunction, Slot 5a - Tenaw Andualem 

Panel Discussion: Please, No Mega-Funds: Building Stronger Health Systems to Expand NCD Coverage 3:30-4:30 PM, Hampton Room - Jono Quick

WEDNESDAY

Poster: Paper-Based Records System: Innovative Strategy to Increase the Uptake of CD4 Tests among People Living with HIV in Northern Nigeria - 5:00-7:00 PM, Blue Room Prefunction, Slot 11b - Babafemi Dare

Poster: Community Volunteers: A Strategy for Improving HIV Treatment - 5:00-7:00 PM, Blue Room Prefunction, Slot 12b - Eloghosa Omorogobe

Poster: Systematic Organizational Capacity Building for Local Organizations Serving MARPs in Honduras -5:00-7:00 PM, Blue Room Prefunction, Slot 17b - Yadira Almodovar-Diaz

Luncheon Panel: Closing the Cancer Divide: A Call to Action - 12:00-1:30 PM, Regency Ballroom - Jono Quick 

Roundtable Session 1B: Integration of HIV/AIDS Services in Rural Clinics -1:45-3:15 PM, Empire Room, Table 6b -Chioma Nwuba 

Roundtable Session 2A: Building Leadership and Management Capacity through Improving the Performance of Nurses in Upper Egypt (IPN) Program - 3:30-5:00 PM, Diplomat Room, Table 1a -  Dr. Abdo Al Swasy 

Roundtable Session 2B: e-TB Manager: An Innovative Web-Based Information System for MDR-TB Program Monitoring - 3:30-5:00 PM, Empire Room, Table 13b -Joel Keravec

Panel Discussion: Getting Out There: Rural Health Interventions - 3:30-5:00 PM, Hampton Room -Hadayatullah Mushfiq- “How Afghanistan has implemented an effective community health care program”

Panel Discussion: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Developing Strategic Leadership in the Healthcare Workforce of the Future - 5:15-6:15 PM, Executive Room - Joseph Dwyer- “Strengthening L&M for results”

THURSDAY

Poster: Community Participation in Selection of CHWs- A Key to the Success of CHW Programs - 4:30-6:30 PM, Blue Room Prefunction, Slot 32c - Denis Joel Sama

Poster: Uptake of CPT and Enrollment in HIV Care Among HIV+ TB Patients in Ethiopia - 4:30-6:30 PM, Blue Room Prefunction, Slot 42c - Frederick Hartman 

Panel Discussion: HIV and NCDs: Leveraging HIV Scale Up to Strengthen Chronic Disease Services in LMIC - 10:15-11:45 AM, Ambassador Ballroom - Gloria Sangiwa- “A systems approach to GIV and NCDs” 

Panel Discussion: Using Community-Based Programming to Meet the Needs of Families and Caregivers -2:00-3:30 PM, Empire Ballroom - Iain Aitken- “Scaling up birth spacing in a complex environment” 

Panel Discussion: Regulatory Systems and Global Health - 2:00-3:15, Congressional Room - David Lee-“The case of diethylene glycol-contaminated cough syrup”

Panel Discussion: Health Systems Reconstruction in Unstable States and States Emerging from Conflict -5:00-6:00 PM, Hampton Room - Hedayatullah Stanekzai- “Health systems development in Afghanistan”

A full schedule listing for the entire GHC conference is available here.