November 4-8, 2006
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Boston, MA

Exhibit

Please visit the MSH exhibit at booth #319 located in aisle 300.

Moderated Oral Sessions

• Community Health Insurance and Health Care Financing in Decentralized Health Systems
  Monday, November 6, 2006 (8:30 AM–10:00 AM)
  Moderator: Elizabeth Lewis, MBA
  MSH/Center for Leadership and Management
  
  
• Meeting the Pharmaceuticals Access Scale-up Challenge
  Monday, November 6, 2006 (10:30 AM–12:00 PM)
  Organizer-Moderator: Keith Johnson, MS
  MSH/Center for Pharmaceutical Management
  
  MSH presentations within this session:
  
  
  • Getting Medicines to the People Who Need Them: Is It Simply a Case of Making More Money Available?
    Jonathan Quick, MD, MPH
    MSH
    
    
  • Moving Forward: Scaling Up Requires Innovative New Approaches and Systems
    James Rankin
    MSH/Center for Pharmaceutical Management
    
    
• Improving Access to Essential Drugs
  Monday, November 6, 2006 (2:30 PM–4:00 PM)
  Moderator: Jonathan Quick, MD, MPH
  MSH
  
  MSH presentations within this session:
  
  
  • Improving Access to Essential Medicines for Effective Malaria Case Management in Endemic Countries
    Rima Shretta, MSc
    MSH/Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus (RPM Plus) Program
    
    
• Improving Quality! Practical Models that Work
  Monday, November 6, 2006 (8:30 PM–10:00 PM)
  Moderator: Steve Sapirie
  MSH/Center for Leadership and Management
  
  MSH presentations within this session:
  
  
  • Promoting and Evaluating Equitable Access to Quality Health Services: Experience in Post-Conflict Rural Afghanistan
    Laurence D. Laumonier-Ickx, MD
    MSH/Center for Health Outcomes
    
    
  • Bringing the Marginalized Drug Seller into Mainstream Pharmaceutical Services Delivery: Experiences from Three Developing Countries Using Three Models
    Keith Johnson, MS
    MSH/Center for Pharmaceutical Management
    
    
• Promoting and Protecting the Rights of the Child
  Tuesday, November 7, 2006 (8:30 AM-10:00 AM)
  Moderator: Ron O'Connor, MD
  MSH
  
  
• How Does National Instability Affect Health Systems? A Growing Challenge in Global Health
  Tuesday, November 7, 2006 (8:30 AM-10:00 AM)
  Moderator: Florence Guillaume, MD
  MSH/Haiti
  
  MSH presentations within this session:
  
  
  • Health Systems Development in a Fragile State: Post-Conflict Afghanistan
    A. Frederick Hartman, MD, MPH
    MSH
    
    
• Malaria: History, Equity, and Prevention
  Tuesday, November 7, 2006 (2:30 PM–4:00 PM)
  Moderator: Malik Diara, MD
  MSH/Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus (RPM Plus) Program
  
  
• Health Care Worker Migration from Developing Countries: What is Happening and Why it Matters
  Wednesday, November 8, 2006 (8:30 AM–10:00 AM)
  Organizer-Moderator: John Pollock, MALD
  MSH/Center for Country Programs
  
  MSH presentations within this session:
  
  
  • Necessity of Effective Policies and Good Governance to Foster Retention of Health Professionals
    Kathy Kantengwa, MD, MPH
    MSH/Rwanda
    
    
  • Impact of Migration on Health Services in Haiti
    Ghislaine Adrian, MD
    Ministry of Health, Government of Haiti working with MSH/Haiti
    
    

Moderated Discussion Panel

• The Impact of Conflict on Health Systems
  Wednesday, November 8, 2006 (2:30 PM–4:00 PM)
  Organizer-Moderator: Diana Silimperi, MD
  MSH/BASICS
  
  MSH presentations within this session:
  
  
  • Health Planning and Implementation in Post-Conflict Afghanistan
    Laurence D. Laumonier-Ickx, MD
    MSH/Center for Health Outcomes
    
    

Oral Sessions

• LeaderNet, a virtual community of health managers working to strengthen leadership and management of health systems, organizations and programs
  Monday, November 6, 2006 (4:30 PM–6:30 PM)
  Cary Perry
  MSH/Leadership, Management and Sustainability Programs
  
  
• Web-based professional development programs
  Monday, November 6, 2006 (4:30 PM–6:30 PM)
  James A. Wolff, MD, MPH, MAT
  MSH
  
  
• Development of a Multi-Method Medication Adherence Assessment Tool Suitable for Antiretroviral Therapy Facilities in Resource-Constrained Settings
  Wednesday, November 8, 2006 (2:30 PM–4:00 PM)
  Gavin Stewart Steel
  MSH/Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus (RPM Plus) Program
  
  

Poster Sessions

• Analyzing HIV/AIDS Drug Regimens in Seven Developing Countries to Monitor and Evaluate Forecasting Needs and Rational Drug Use
  Tuesday, November 7, 2006 (4:30 PM–5:30 PM)
  Laila Akhlaghi, PharmD, MPA
  MSH/Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus (RPM Plus) Program
  
  
• Improving Adherence to HIV/AIDS Treatment in South Africa by Using a Computerized Pharmacy Tool to Transfer Care to Local Clinics
  Tuesday, November 7, 2006 (4:30 PM–5:30 PM)
  Gavin Stewart Steel
  MSH/Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus (RPM Plus) Program