Presentations

Session 1: Human Resources for Millennium Development Goal Five: Setting the Context

Prof Lynn Freedman, AMDD
Navigating Maternal Mortality Reduction: A Rights-Based Approach
Prof Staffan Bergström, AMDD/Karolinska Institutet
Meeting MDGs 4 & 5: The crisis in human resources for health
Dr Monique Rakotomalala, UNFPA-Ethiopia
Understanding the Political and Health Systems Context for Non-Physician Clinicians: The Ethiopia Experience

Session 2: Paradigm Shift: Rethinking Human Resources for Maternal Survival

Dr Harshad Sanghvi, JHPIEGO
Skilling Up & Scaling Up: Task Sharing for EmOC
Dr Barbara Kwast, AMDD
The Centrality of Midwives for Maternal Survival
Dr Pius Okong, FIGO
FIGO's Statement of Human Resources for Health in Low-Resource Settings: Collaborative Practice and Task-Shifting in MNC
Mr Steady Vinkhumbo, Thyolo District Hospital
Non-Physician Clinicians Rising to the Challenge: Presonal Experiences in Malawi

Session 3: African Innovations to Increase Access to Emergency Obstetric Care: The Non-Physician Clinician Experience

Dr Muna Abdullah, UNFPA-Ethiopia
Human Resources in Ethiopia: Inequity in Access to EmOC
Dr Caetano Pereira, Central Hospital, Maputo
Using Tecnicos de Cirurgia to Deliver Emergency Obstetric Care in Mozambique: Safety, Retention and Cost
Dr Angelo Nyamtema, Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health
(presentation forthcoming)
Dr Garvey Chilopora, College of Medicine, University of Malawi
Saving Lives in Malawi: The Role and Practice of Clinical Officers

Session 4: Training Non-Physician Clinicians: What Have We Learned?

Dr Blerta Maliqi, WHO-MPS
Task Shifting: Treat, Train and Retain
Mr Pape Gaye, Intrahealth
(presentation forthcoming)
Dr Barnabas Gebre-Ab, Tigray Health Bureau
Emergency Obstetric Intervention by Trained Health Officers: Experience of Task Shifting in Tigray, Ethiopia

Session 5: Training Non-Physician Clinicians: What is Required?

(No powerpoint presentations given.)

Session 6: Human Resources for Maternal Survival: Glimpses of the Global Experience

Ms Bridget Lynch, ICM
Standardising Midwifery Competencies Globally
Ms Sheena Currie, JHPIEGO
Going to Scale with Skilled Birth Attendants in Afghanistan
Dr Geetha Rana, AMDD/National Health Systems Resource Centre, Delhi
Multi-skilling for Anaesthesia and Emergency Obstetric Care in South Asia

Session 7: Building the Enabling Environment: What is Required?

Dr Francis Kamwendo, College of Medicine, University of Malawi and Dr Honorati Masanja, Ifakara Health Institute
Building the Enabling Environment: What is Required to Retain and Support NPC Performance? Evidence and Experience

Session 8: Understanding the Enabling Environment in "Lanretam": Parallel Sessions

Dr Helen de Pinho, AMDD
Introduction to Lanretam

Session 9: Implementing and Supporting Country-Led Approaches

Ms Eilish McAuliffe, Centre for Global Health
Lessons from Lanretam and Day 2

Session 10: Enhancing Maternal and Newborn Survival: Mobilising Technical, Financial and Political Support for Action

(No powerpoint presentations given.)