5th Annual Public Health Conference 11-12th December, · PDF fileDr. Shehla Zaidi (Associate Professor & Program Director, Health Policy & Management, Aga Khan University, Karachi)

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THEME: UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGEGuest of Honor

Chair

Co-Chair

Co-Chair

Moderator

Speakers

Mr. Muhammad Ayub Sheikh (Federal Secretary, Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination)

Dr. Ghulam Asghar Abbasi (Chief of Health, Planning Commission of Pakistan)

Dr. Michel Thieren (WR, Representative in Pakistan, World Health Organization)

Dr. Ruth Hildebrandt (Principal Advisor, Sector Coordinator Health, German Development Cooperation)

Dr. Samina Naeem Khalid (Assistant Professor, Health Services Academy)

Dr. Sameen Siddiqi (Director, Health System Development, Regional O�ce for the Eastern Mediterranean, WHO, Geneva) Dr. Awad Mataria (Health Economist, Regional O�ce for the Eastern Mediter-ranean, WHO, Geneva) Dr. Shehla Zaidi (Associate Professor & Program Director, Health Policy & Management, Aga Khan University, Karachi)

Universal Health Coverage: Challenges and Opportunities for EMR Countries

Social Health Insurance for Universal Health Coverage: What Lessons for Pakistan?

Harnessing private sector in moving towards - Universal Health Coverage

Human Resource for Health Management - Graduation CeremonyQueen Margaret University in Collaboration with Health Services Academy

Moderator: Dr. Mariyam Sarfraz (Instructor, Health Services Academy)

Themes

Sessions I – (Hall A) Save The Children

II – (Hall B) WHO_GIZ

(Free Papers)

III – (Hall C)World Population

Foundation-Rutgers

IV – (Hall D) HelpAge International,

Pakistan

Moving Towards Proven Solutions for Improving Newborn Survival in

Pakistan

Universal Health Coverage Adolescent Health Addressing Old Age Health Problems as Part of Universal

Coverage

Chair Dr. Malik M. Safi (Director Program, Ministry of

NHSR&C)

Maj. Gen. Viqar A. Khan(Commandant, AFPGMI)

Mr. Qadeer Baig(Country Representative,

Rutgers WPF Pakistan)

Mr. Toby Porter(CEO, HelpAge International)

Co-Chair Prof. Amjad Chaudhary(Registrar

SZABU, PIMS, Islamabad)

Dr. Nabeela Ali(Chief of Party, R&T Institute,

JSI, USAID)

Mr. Shahzad Malik(Chief Population, P & D, GoP)

Prof. Dr. Inayat Hussain Thaver(Prof. Community Health

Sciences, Dean R. FMHCM&D)

Co-Chair Dr. Shahzad Shahab Mithani(Senior Director, Program Develop-ment & Quality, Save The Children )

Dr. Zulfiqar Khan(Technical Officer, JPRM & HSS

Coordinator, WHO)

Ms. Ajeeba Aslam(Country Director HelpAge

International, Pakistan)Discussant Dr. Qudsia Uzma

(Director Health & Nutrition, Save the Children)

Dr. Tabinda Zaman(Assistant Professor, IMDC,

Social Security Hospital)

Ms. Amna Akhsheed(Director, Adolescent & Women Empowerment, Rahnuma FPAP)

Mr. Peter McGeachi(Regional Director, HelpAge

International)

Dr. Shaista Faisal(Deputy Director, PMDC)

Ms. Ann Keeling(Country Representative, UNFPA)

“Universal Health Coverage: Issues and Challenges in Pakistan”“Universal Health Coverage: Issues and Challenges in Pakistan”

5th Annual Public Health Conference11-12th December, 2014

11th December (Thursday), 2014

Plenary Session - I (10:00 AM – 11:30 AM)

Recitation

Registration (09:00 AM – 10:00 AM)

Inaugural Session (12:30 PM – 01:30 PM)Welcome Address: Professor Dr. Assad Hafeez (Dean/Executive Director, Health Services Academy)

Remarks by PartnersRemarks by Chief Guest: Mrs. Saira Afzal Tarar (Federal Minister for State, Ministry of NHSR&C)

Tea Break

Poster Session11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Sessions (01:30 PM – 03:00 PM)


Rapporteur Dr. Naveed jaffery(Provincial Manager Advocacy &

Campaign, Save the Children)

Ms. Komal Akbar(Student, HEM, HSA)

Dr. Sonia Riaz(Student Public Health, HSA)

Ms. Bushra Khalil(Project Manager, Helpage)

Key NoteSpeaker

Dr. Gohar Rehman(Dean, Khyber Institute of Child

Health)

Brig. Dr. Masood Fazil(DG Health & Training, Red

Crescent)

Dr. Munazza Haris(Technical Advisor- Health

Services, WPF)

Mr. Toby Porter &Mr. Peter McGeachie

1. Asma Badar, Helping babies breathe initiative in Sindh - MCHIP project.

2. Farhana Ahmad, Use of Chlorhex-idine for cord care in Sindh - MCHIP project.

3. Imran Nisar, Simplified Antibiotic Therapy Trial for newborn sepsis (AKU study).

4. Samina Naeem Khalid, Ending Newborn Deaths: National Report – preliminary findings.

5. Shabina Arif, Landscape of Kangaroo Mother Care for low birth weight newborns in Pakistan.

1. Fatima Hassan, Engaging with Community-based Public and Private Mid-level Providers for Promoting the Use of Modern Contracep-tion: Evidence for Innovating to Save Lives Project in Rural Pakistan (Marie Stopes Society, KHI).

2. Komal Akbar, Assessment of Out of Pocket Spending (OOPS) in insured and uninsured diabetic patients.

3. Mirza A. A. Baig, Potential Impact of Mobile Phones to Improve Health Status (Health Informatics Unit, CIIT, IBD).

4. Mirza Inam, Health Care Staff Motivation : A challenge in universal health coverage (Islamic Interna-tional Medical College, RWP).

5. Prof. Riaz Hussain Dab, Educating Allied Health Professionals - missing link in patient care. (Directorate of Medical Sciences, GC Univ. FSD)

6. Suleman Atique, Taiwan’s national health insurance system: A role model for future (Graduate Institute of Bio- Medical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan).

7. Sultan Karim, Estimation of out of pocket health expenditure of households of Gilgit Baltistatn and their perception regarding health coverage: A case study from district Skardu, Gilgit Baltistan.

1. Gerjan Lar /Aasia Niazi, Enhancing access to SRHR information and services for Adolescents in Pakistan through E&M Health (CEO Grappetite / Sr. Programme Officer IT/Knowledge management Rutgers WPF).

2. Munazza Haris, Need for Youth Friendly Health Services from SRHR perspec-tive and the role of public and private sector (Technical Advisor – Health Services Rutgers WPF-Pakistan).

3. Richard Geary, Sexual and reproductive health needs of Young people with disability (Executive (Direc-tor, Family Educational Services Foundation).

4. Sundus Ahson, Situation of Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights of Young people and key issues in adolescent health with focus on marginalized youth” (Focal Person-ASK, Visionary Foundation Pakistan)

1. Ajeeba Aslam, Disasters and old age issues and challenges (Country Director HelpAge Interna-tional Pakistan).

2. Bushra Khalil, Health care utilization in Sindh

(Health Economist, HSA).3. Ghulam Mustafa Halepota,

Are the public care facilities old-age friendly and responsive (Public Health Specialist, HelpAge Project).

4. Mehreen Mujtaba, Health care utilization patterns in Punjab (HelpAge Project).

Speakers



Dr. Fatima Ali/Ms. Fatima Javed(Students Public Health, HSA)

Moderator Dr. Faisal Imtiaz/Dr. Wasim Iqbal(Students Public Health, HSA)

Dr. Mariyam Sarfraz(Instructor, Health Services

Academy)

Mr. Adnan Khan(Instructor, HSA)

Sessions V- ( Hall A ) Ipas-NCMNH

VI – (Hall B) Free Papers

VII – (Hall C)NIPS/Rahnuma_FPAP

VIII – (Hall D) Free Papers

Themes

Chair

Co-Chair

Co-Chair

Discussant

Moderator


Maternal Health Reproductive Health Research for Better Future Pakistan Demographic & Health Survey 2012-13

Non-Communicable Diseases

Dr. Zafar Ikram(Additional Director General

IRMNCH & Nutrition Programs, Punjab)

Dr. Fazal-e-Hakim Mian(Deputy Chief, Planning

Commission)

Mr. Abdul Ghaffar Khan(Director General, PPW of

M/o NHSR&C)

Prof. Dr. Abdul Majeed Rajput(President, Pakistan Public

Health Association)

Dr. Syed Zakir Shah(Population Council, IBD)

Prof. Dr. S. Batool Mazhar(Consultant, HoD, MNCH)

Dr. Maria Qureshi(Student Public Health, HSA)

Dr. Rukhsana Khan(Assistant Professor, Health

Services Academy)Dr. Babar Tasneem Shaikh

(Director Health & Built Environ-ment, Aga Khan Foundation)

Dr. Sadaf Naveed(Student Public Health, HSA)

Dr. Azeem Sultan Mir(Director Program Planning

Division)

Dr. Sabeen Afzal(Deputy Director, Ministry of

NHSR&C)

Rapporteur Dr. Rozina Khan(Public Health Consultant, 2014)

Ms. Sana Azmat Rana/Dr. Faisal Imtiaz

(Students Public Health, HSA)

Dr. Zamurd Khan/Ms. Hina Najmi


Dr. Sonia Riaz/Dr. Wasifa Anjum(Students Public Health, HSA)

Speakers 1. Noreen Zafar, Setting Standards and Guidelines for safe postabor-tion care under WHO revised technical and policy guidance.

2. Rafat Jan, Training Needs and Expectations of midwives- MAP”s experience of PAC/FP Providers’ Networking Activities in Sindh province through technical assistance of Ipas.

3. Zahida Sarwar, PRHTAC- Punjab Advocacy initiative for policy change and integration of PAC technologies into the Health Systems and Trainings.

1. Faisal Abbas, Comparing Home and Hospital Based Delivery in Pakistan: Analysis of the factors affecting delivery behavior (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ISB).

2. Farhana Shahid, Improving access to family planning services to reproductive age women in Sindh province (CHIP/JHPIEGO, KHI PAK).

3. Neelofer Mehboob, TRaC Survey to establish indicators for multiple programs in Pakistan(Greenstar KHI PAK).

4. Nida Khan, Costs to families and health services for a pregnant woman to utilize the safe birthing services in

1. Ayesha Shiraz, Key findings of PDHS 2012- 13.

2. Nasser Mohiuddin, Unmet FP need of women in Pak (Director HRD).

3. Rabia Zafar, Maternal Health & Family Planning.

4. Sehar un Nisa, Social and cultural factors associated with men and women’s negative attitudes towards wife abuse and actual abuse experienced by women.

5. Zafar Zahir, Alarming situation of high level of childhood mortality in Pakistan.

6. Zahir Hussain, HIV/ AIDS Statistics in Pakistan.

1. Kanwal Syeda, Health Professional Students’ Perceptions Regarding Role in Tobacco Control: Findings from the Global Health Professional Students Survey (GHPSS), Pakistan, 2011.

2. Nigar e Noor, Neurotic Trends and Attitudes towards Mental Health: A Community Case Study(Fati-ma Jinnah Women Universi-ty IBD).

3. Noreen Arshad, Socio-eco-nomic and Environmental Determinants of Tobacco Products Consumption: A Case Study of Pakistan (The Network for Consumer

Key NoteSpeaker

Dr. Ghulam Shabbir Awan(Country Manager, Ipas Pakistan)

Dr. Aysha Shiraz(Senior Fellow, Deputy Project

Director, PDHS)

Dr. Zahid Ahmad Butt(Associate Professor, HoD

Public Health, Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital)

Ms. Nighat Durrani(Registrar, Pakistan Nursing

Council)

Dr. Ali M. Mir(Director Programs, Popula-

tion Council)

Ms. Azra Aziz(Project Director - PDHS &

Director R&S)

Prof. Dr. Riaz Hussain Dab(Advisor, Directorate of Medical

Sciences, GC Univ. FSD)

Ms. Bilquis Tahira(Executive Director, Shirakat-Part-

nership for Development)

Dr. Saba Amjad(Manager Operations/HR,

Heartfile)

Dr. Azra Ahsan(Technical Advisor Ipas/Technical

Consultant NCMNH)

Dr. Nasser Mohiuddin(Director, HRD, NIPS)

Dr. Farah Qadir(Asst. Prof. Behavioral Sciences,

Fatima Jinnah University)



Lunch Break (03:00 PM – 03:30 PM)

Sessions (03:30 PM – 05:00 PM)




Punjab(Association for Social Development IBD)

5. Qamar Sheikh, Improving Access is the key for sustain-able adoption of birth spacing practices in Rural Remote Areas (HANDS, IBD)

6. Qamar u Zaman Jamali, Implementing Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) Program in Sindh to address birth asphyxia related neonatal deaths in Sindh.

7. Sajida Naseem, Maternal Health Status in a Periurban setting of Islamabad - A Community Based Survey (Department of Community & Family Medicine, Shifa College of Medi., Shifa Tameer -e- Millat Univ. IBD).

8. Shaher Elahi, Study on contextual and social influences on the delivery and utilization of safe birthing services in Punjab (Association for Social Development IBD).

9. Wajiha Javed, Making birthing safe for Pakistani women - Findings from a pragmatic cluster random-ized trial (Association for Social Development).

Q&A Session NIPS-PDHS Research Team

Protection, IBD).4. Saba Mughal, Functional

Time Series Models and the APC Models: A Comparative Study on the Lung Cancer Incidence Rates in Denmark (Dow University of Health Sciences, Department of Research KHI).

5. Saira Javed, Diabetes Associated Distress: Implica-tions for Coping and Treatment(Pakistan Kidney Patients Association, RWP).

6. Salma Sahliha, Gold nanoparticles as potential anticancer therapeutic modalities (International Islamic University, IBD).

7. Shaheen Shehzad, Associa-tion of TRAIL 1595 C/T Polymorphisms with Lung Cancer (Department of Bioinformatics and Biotech-nology, International Islamic Univ. IBD).

8. Shah Alam Khan, Relapse of drug use among rehabilitat-ed drug users: A prospective cohort study.

9. Sidra Zaheer, Prevalence and determinants of susceptibility to cigarette smoking among school students in Pakistan: Secondary analysis of Global Youth Tobacco Survey (Dow University of Health Sciences, School of Public Health KHI).

10. Syed Muslim Abbas, Smokeless tobacco consumption in a multi-eth-nic community of Pakistan (Fatima Memorial System, LHR).



Recitation

12th December (Friday), 2014Plenary Session - II (09:30 AM – 10:30 AM)


THEME: MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH - INNOVATIVE STRATEGIESChair

Co-Chair

Co-Chair

Moderator

Speakers

Professor Dr. Javed Akram (Vice Chancellor, Shaheed Zul�qar Ali Bhutto Medical University, PIMS, Islamabad)

Ms. Melanie Galvin (Chief of Nutrition Section, UNICEF)

Dr. Shahzad Shahab Mithani (Senior Director Program Development & Quality, Save the Children, Pakistan)

Dr. Saima Hamid (Registrar/Assistant Professor, Health Services Academy)

Dr. Zeba A. Sathar (Country Director, Population Council, Pakistan)

Dr. Silvia Kaufmann (Senior Nutrition Specialist, World Bank)

Dr. Tabish Hazir (Professor of Pediatrics, Children Hospital, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences)

Maternal Health in Pakistan: Challenges & Options

Maternal and Child Nutrition, Challenges & Prog-ress in Pakistan

Current Challenges Faced by Pneumonia Control Programs

Tea Break

Poster Session

Sessions (11:00 AM – 01:00 PM)

(10:30 AM – 11:00 AM)

Themes

HallsIX – (Hall A)

UNICEF(Free Papers)

X – ( Hall B ) NTP

XI – (Hall C) Free Papers

XII– (Hall D)Rahnuma _FPAP

Nutrition Tuberculosis Control Innova-tions & Challenges

Quality of Care Reproductive Health in Crises

Co-Chair Dr. Baseer Achakzai(Nutrition Focal Person, M/o NHSRC&C, National Program

Manager, AIDS Control Program)

Co-Chair Dr. Tausif Akhtar Janjua(Director, Micronutrient Initiative)

Dr. Abdul Ghafoor(National Technical Advisor,

NTP)

Dr. Raja Ayub(Senior Project Officer, PIU,

NTP)

Mr. Ismail Khan(Deputy Director General,

Bureau of Statistics)

Dr. Arif Munir(Principal Research Officer,

PMRC)

Brig. Dr. Ayesha Mazhar(Head of Department ,

College of Nursing, AFPGMI)

Ms. Nyghat Siddique(Advisor/Program Manager,

Gender & Child Health, NDMA)

Chair

Co-Chair Dr. Khizar Ashraf(Program Officer Nutrition- WFP)


Dr. Ejaz Qadeer(National Manager, NTP)

Najm us Saqib Khan(T, Bt/Director General Medical Services, Navy)

Dr. Huma Qureshi(Executive Director, PMRC

Islamabad)DG NEHPRN

Moderator Dr. Waseem Iqbal (Student Public Health, HSA)

Ms. Binish Afroz(Student Public Health, HSA)

Dr. Shahzad Ali Khan(Assistant Professor, Health

Services Academy)

Dr. Rozina Khalid(Assistant Professor, Health

Services Academy)

Rapporteur Ms. Hina Najmi(Student Public Health, HSA)

Ms. Bisma Ikram/Mr. Ali Mehmood


Dr. Nazia Azam Yousfani/Ms. Sadaf Aqil/Ms. Farah Ashraf


Dr. Faiza Sheikh(Student Public Health, HSA)

Discussant Dr. S. Saeed Qadir (Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF)

Dr. Rukhsana Khan (Assistant Professor, Health

Services Academy)

Prof. Dr. Mati ur Rehman(National MDR TB Advisor, NTP)

Dr. Muhammad Arslan Mazhar

(Program Officer-Health, Aga Khan University)

Brig. Dr. Naila Azam(Associate Professor, Commu-

nity Medicine, AFPGMI)




KeynoteSpeaker


Dr. Basharat Javed(National Technical Officer,

NTP)

Prof. Shamsa Rizwan(In country Lead

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)

Ms. Graciela Van Der Poel (Gender Based Violence Emergency Coordinator)

Speakers 1. Faiza Kamal, Food advertise-ments and its influence on food practices of homemakers of Lahore (Mayo hospital, LHR).

2. Fakhar Gulzar, Multi Sectoral Nutrition Strategy: A way forward to combat malnutrition (Policy and Strategic Planning Unit, LHR).

3. Fatima Ali, An Assessment of Dietary Diversity and its Associa-tion with the Nutritional Status of Pregnant Women (Public Health Consultant, HSA).

4. Melanie Galvin, Stop Stunting (Chief of Nutrition Section, UNICEF).

5. Qadir Baloch, Biofortification: Harvest Plus High Zinc Wheat Program - the Potential Agricul-tural Option for Alleviating Malnutrition in Pakistan (Harvest-Plus- Pakistan, IBD).

6. Roomi Riaz, Documenting poor adolescent girls’ nutritional status and factors affecting this status in Pakistan (Nur Center for Research & Policy, LHR).

7. Waseem Iqbal, Assesment of factors leading to obesity in adolescents of Islamabad (Student Public Health, HSA).

8. Zamarud Khan, Perception and Access of Healthy Food in Adolescents, going to Private Schools in Quetta, Pakistan (Student Public Health, HSA)

9. Zulfiqar Sario, To determine Nutritional Status, Food Security and Dietary Habits of married and pregnant women in district Tharparkar (HANDS, IBD).

1. Abdul Ghafoor, "MDR TB Challenge and the National response".

2. Basharat Javed, "Post 2015 Global TB strategy- An overview".

3. Ejaz Qadeer, "Towards Universal Access to TB Care in Pakistan by 2020".

4. Razia Fatima, "Experience of active case finding in Pakistan through innovative strategies" .

5. Sabira Tahseen, "Universal access to quality Diagnosis of TB and DRTB -------- Success and Challenges".

6. Syed Hussain Hadi, "A journey to reach the missing half".

1. Aatif Hussain, Assessment of Job Satisfaction Level among Young Doctors Working at Tertiary Care Hospitals of Islamabad and Rawalpindi (Student Public Health, HSA).

2. Abo Ul Hassan Madni, Promotion of adopting LARC among young couples through functional integra-tion of LHWs with FWCs & improving quality of services: opportunities & challenges (Pathfinder International ISB).

3. Ayesha Babar, Are Health Professionals following standard treatment guide-lines of TB.DOTS Programme in Public and Private Settings? ( Department of Public Health, Health, Al-Shifa Trust eye Hospital RWP).

4. Bushra Ashraf, Informed Consent For Surgery: Do Our Current Practices Conform To The Accepted Standards?

5. Omar Akhlaq Buhtta, Business Process Reengi-neering in Health Informat-ics; Improved Patient Safety Through Pharmacy Clinical Interventions at SKMCH & RC (Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital.

6. Maria Qureshi, Assessment of Standards of Care With Reference to Minimum Service Delivery Standards (MSDS) in Social Security Hospital, Rawalpindi (Student Public Health, HSA)

7. Mubarak T Shah, Clients’ Perception Regarding Immunization in Two Under-Performing Urban UCS of Karachi, Pakistan (Aga Khan University, KHI)

& RC LHR)9. Shoaib Ahmed Shahzad,

Improving Chlorhexidine

1. Nadeem Mahmood, “Integration of MISP into Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in Pakistan (Project Director Rahnuma - FPAP).

2. Samra Mazhar, Deputy Director PH, NEHPRN, “Integrating sexual and reproductive health (SRH) into health emergency and disaster risk management.

3. Stenly Hely Sajow, UNFPA “Sexual and Reproductive Health in Crisis Settings”- A Global Perspective (Interna-tional Humanitarian Coordinator, UNFPA).

Speakers

Lunch Break (01:00 PM – 2:30 PM)

Session (02:30 PM – 4:00 PM)

Themes

Halls XIII– (Hall A)Free Papers

XIV – (Hall B)Free Papers

XV – (Hall C)Free Papers

XVI – (Hall D) Free Papers

Disease Control Devolution Community Based Services Adolescent HealthChair Dr. Rana M. Safdar

(National Programme Manager, EPI)Dr. Fazli Hakim Khattak

(Chief, Planning Commission)Lt. Gen (R) Moinuddin Haider(Chairman, Fatimid Founda-

tion, KCH)

Dr. Hasan Orooj(Director Health, CDA)

Co-Chair Prof. Dr. Javaid Iqbal(Consultant Surgeon, Punjab)

Mr. Saqlain Gillani(Deputy National Program

Manager, EPI)

Dr. Khurshid Ahmad Nasim(Director, IMDC)

Prof. Dr. Nasira Tasnim(Consultant Gynecologist,

PIMS)Dr. Tasleem Akhtar

(Advisor, Fatima Memorial System, LHR)

Discussant Dr. Qutab-u-Din Kakar(National Professional Officer)

Brig. Mehmood ur Rehman(HoD Community Medicine,

Army Medical College)

Dr. Ghulam Nabi Kazi (Manager Social Determinants

of Health, WHO)

Dr. Farah Naz(Country Program Manager,

Plan International)Moderator Mr. Soaib Ali Hassan/Imtinan Akram

(Instructors, Health Services Academy)

Dr. Sadia Ausim(Student Public Health, HSA)

Mr. Aijaz Ali(Instructor, Health Services

Academy)

Dr. Katrina A. Ronis(Assistant Professor, Health

Services Academy)Rapporteur Dr. M. Sami Iqbal/Mr. Kamran

Aslam(Students Public Health, HSA)

Ms. Sehrish Ishaq/Dr. Haider Ali (Students Public Health, HSA)

Ms. Aiman Saleemi(Student Public Health, HSA)

Dr. Sadaf Naveed/Dr. Faiza Sheikh

(Students Public Health, HSA)KeynoteSpeaker

Dr. Babar Tasneem Shaikh(Director Health & Built Environ-

ment, Aga Khan Foundation)

Dr. Talib Lashari(Senior Technical Advisor,USAID DELIVER PROJECT)

Prof. Dr. Tayyab Afghani(Prof. of Ophthalmology,

Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, RWP)

Dr. Irfan Ahmed(Director Health, Plan

Pakistan)

Speakers 1. Abdul Latif Khan, Barriers in utilization of harm reduction services for prevention of HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users in Karachi: A qualitative study exploring users and management perspectives (Aga Khan University, KHI)

2. Abdul Matin, Free living amoeba: Prevalence, prevention obstacle & potential impact on public health in Pakistan (University of Haripur, KPK).

3. Farah Naz Memon, HCV geno-type frequency distribution at Sindh: Plausible evidence to deed (Department of Pathology, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Sindh, KHI).

4. Ibrar Rafique, Seroprevalence of Dengue IgG antibodies in Pakistani Population - Preliminary analysis (PMRC, IBD).

1. Adeela Rehman, Post Devolution of Health System: Doctor’s Perfor-mances and Challenges: A Study of District Headquar-ter Hospitals, Punjab Pakistan (Fatima Jinnah Women University RWP).

2. Haleema Masud, The Meaning of Health Policy in Pakistan: A challenge in post-devolution scenari-o(Department of Public Health, Al-Shifa Trust, RWP)

3. Muqeem Islam, Health Services Structure in the Post 18th Amendment Scenario.

4. Sidra Kiyani, A Review: Handover paper implemen-tation.

1. Arsaln Mazhar, Community Health Revolving Fund (CHRF): An innovative social protection net to safeguard RMNCH for ultra-poor (Program Officer-Health, AKF).

2. Ayyaz Kiani, Community Pharmacies as Partners in Primary Health Care.

3. Bushra Ashraf, An Audit of the Knowledge and Attitudes of Doctors Towards Surgical Informed Consent (Sic).

4. Ghulam Shabbir Awan, From Policy Change to Scaling up Safe Postabortion Care Technologies and Trainings to the Midlevel Providers including Commu-nity Midwives in Punjab (Ipas Pakistan, KHI).

1. Aliya Hisam, Type A and Type B Personality among Undergraduate Medical Students: Need for Psycho-social Rehabilitation (Army Medical College, RWP).

2. Ayesha Malik, Association between Intrusive Thoughts and Cognitive Avoidance among University Students (Fatima Jinnah Women University, RWP).

3. Fatima Javed, Assessment of Barriers faced by Univer-sity Students regarding Sexual & Reproductive Health Care Services in Islamabad (Student Public Health, HSA).

4. Khawar Bashir, Adolescent Health: The Role of Zeek Foundation in Promoting Youth Health at Physical,

Co-Chair Dr. Tahira Amjad (Associate Professor,

Foundation Medical University)

Dr. Nasir Idrees(Public Health Consultant)

Brig. Dr. Masood Fazil (DG Health & Training, Red

Crescent)




KeynoteSpeaker

Advocacy for Newborns (Mercy Corps International ISB).



Closing Ceremony, Health Services Academy

(4:00 PM – 5:00 PM)


Speakers

5. Lubna Meer, What Mothers Know About Diarrhea - The Dreadful: A Survey in Rawalpindi (IT Specialist, IBD)

6. Sameera Farzand, Strategic management plan to control influenza pandemics: A survey of global influenza experts (The University of Texas Health Science Centre, USA).

7. Syed Fawad Mashhadi, Aware-ness regarding Polio in suburban population of Rawalpindi (Com-munity Medicine, AMC, RWP).

5. Hafeez Ahmed Memon, Effects of Social Support on Drug Resistant-TB Patient’s Compliance and Default Towards Treatment (SZAB-MU, PIMS, IBD).

6. Minhaj-u-Siraj, Tobacco Control in Pakistan; Hazards, Laws & Dynamics (Deputy Director General, CAD).

7. Muhammad Tariq, Building Sustainable Public Sector Workforce Capacity to Operate a Web-based Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) in Pakistan.

8. Naseem Zahid, A food based program for pregnant & lactating women and children in rural Sindh: Can it work? ( Aga Khan Universi-ty KHI).

9. Rubina Jaffri, To Measure the Water Poverty Index to Provide the Sustainable WASH services to vulnerable Community in Urban Slum of Gadap Town Karachi Pakistan (HANDS, KHI).

Mental and Psychologi-cal/Emotional Levels (Zeek Foundation, IBD).

5. Nadia Bakhtawer, Associa-tion of Excessive Worry and Somatic Complaints Among Adolescents (Dept of Behavioral Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, RWP).

6. Sadia Batool, E-Health Advice in Schools through Engagement of Health Care Professionals (Fatima Memorial System LHR).

7. Sumera Javed, Youth participation and active engagement in community based psychiatric services (HANDS, IBD).

Concluding Session“The Window of Opportunity”

Conference ProceedingsAwards Ceremony

Closing remarks by Director General Health

Vote of Thanks

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5th Annual Public Health Conference 11-12th December, · PDF fileDr. Shehla Zaidi (Associate Professor & Program Director, Health Policy & Management, Aga Khan University, Karachi)