Program GHN Conference 2024
When | Topic | Title and presenter |
16:00-16:30 |
Registration, meet & greet / Welcome to UiT – The Arctic University of Norway | |
16:30-16:50 |
Opening
The organising committee |
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16:50-17:15 |
Global health - general |
Looking back. 30 years of capacity building in global health, where are we now? |
17:15-17:40 | War and conflict |
Midwives in Gaza struggling for healthy starts |
17:40-17:55 | BREAK | |
17:55-18:20 | War and conflict |
Research and academic life in war times |
18:20-18:40 |
War and conflict |
From Progress to Peril- the impact of Myanmar's military coup on healthcare and humanitarian crisis |
18:40-18:50 |
War and conflict |
Title TBD |
18:50-19:00 |
BREAK | |
19:00-19:45 |
Exposures |
Protecting Our Future: Tackling Childhood Lead Poisoning in Georgia PFAS associated with immunomodulatory biomarker signatures in a cross-sectional study of an adolescent population Maternal blood lead levels during pregnancy, Adjara Georgia (2020-2023) |
20:00-22:00: Dinner at Forskningsparken, Tromsø: Sykehusvegen 21
When | Topic | Title and presenter |
08:15-09:00 |
Coffee/tea, registration | |
09:00-09:05 |
Welcoming remarks, day two Organising committee |
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09:05-09:30 | Healthy start |
Ensuring children’s futures |
09:30-09:55 | NCDs | Commercial determinants of health – the influence of unhealthy commodity industries on health Mark Petticrew Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
09:55-10:05 | SHORT BREAK | |
10:05 - 10:35 | NCDs | Examining the power of the alcohol and tobacco industry in the Philippines
Gayle Amul Caregiver-reported alcohol consumption by children 6-13 years old in eastern Uganda |
10:35-10:50 | BREAK | |
10:50-11:20 | NCDs | Lusaka Fit Futures Study: a cross-sectional multipurpose study on Zambian adolescents' health and lifestyle
Nina Emaus Tracking of overweight and obesity from early childhood to adolescence |
11:20-11:35 | BREAK | |
11.35-12.20 | Healthy start |
The Georgian Birth Registry - competence collaboration The Process of Reviewing Maternal Deaths in Tanzania Determinants of malnutrition among under-five children in Malawi |
12:20-13:20 |
LUNCH |
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13:20-14:05 | Healthy start |
Building on Niger’s 70 % reduction of postpartum haemorrhage’s contribution to maternal mortality How the presence of volunteers and unpaid healthcare workers impact on fees-exempted patients in Sierra Leone Caregivers’ perceived beliefs about hydroxyurea use in management of children with sickle cell disease in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
14:05-14:20 |
BREAK |
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14:20-14:45 |
Mental health | How we developed child and adolescent mental health services in Nepal Kumar Bhattarai Executive Director, Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN-Nepal) |
14:45-15:15 |
Mental health |
Implementing the TREAT INTERACT intervention for primary school teachers and the mhGAP for health care workers for child mental health promotion in Uganda Informal use of mobile phones among community level healthcare workers in India |
15:15-15:25 |
SHORT BREAK | |
15:25-15:45 |
Call to action: Where to go from here? Johanne Sundby Professor Emerita, Department of Health and Society, University of Oslo |
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15:45-16:00 |
Closing and introduction to next GHN conference |
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