IMPROVING HEALTH DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS IN

THE REGION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE GENERATION AND

SHARING.

Public Health Association of AustraliaSpecial Interest Group – International

Health Workshop27th September 2009

ANU, Canberra

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Acknowledgment

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Aim

• To share and contribute to the increasing body of knowledge on improving the effectiveness of health development assistance in the Asia Pacific region.

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Objectives

• 1. In increase health and development practitioners’ awareness of the aid effectiveness agenda and initiatives within in the health and development programmes of the Asia and Pacific region

• 2. To promote discussion and debate on lessons learnt on improving health development effectiveness

• 3. To distil lessons learnt from health development practice in areas such as health systems, health policies, translating research into policy and practice at various levels of the health system, specific health programme areas

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Time Topic Facilitator/Presenter

INTRODUCTION SESSION09.00 Welcome and Housekeeping Peter Vanderwal, 09.05 Brief introduction to programme, aims and objectives Maxine Whittaker09.15 The Australian Government’s commitment to improving

health development effectiveness in the region. Sue Elliott, Director Health Thematic Group, AusAID

09.30 DiscussionsACCESSING KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES09.45 The AusAID Health Resource Facility - the Facility, the

team, the services; how the HRF worksJackie Mundy, Director AusAID Health Resource Facility

10.00 Expert Panel Discussion: what makes effective development

Panel

10.15 Discussions, particularly around ongoing/current research to develop an inventory of research aimed at increasing the effectiveness of development assistance

Floor

10.30 Morning teaWHAT MAKES EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN HEALTH SYSTEMS 11.00 Influencing policy or financing in health systems in the

Asia-Pacific - what are the challenges and opportunities?Kris Hort,

11.30 Health information and its role in health systems strengthening – what does experience tell us about how to effectively support these systems?

Vicki Bennet

11.45 The human face of health systems – what about the health human resource development – what is effective assistance?

John Hall,

12.00 Discussions13.00-13.30

Lunch

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HEALTH PROGRAMS 13.30 Defining effective assistance to women’s health programs Chris Morgan, Principal Fellow,

Centre for International Health, Burnet Institute

13.45 Child health and lessons learnt on effectiveness of development assistance

Royal Children’s Hospital and Menzies School of Health Research

14.00 Invited papers (3)14.45 Discussions15.00 Afternoon tea15.15 Open forum: What more do we need to know and how to find

this out? (generate debate on other evidence required, other sources of evidence, implementation questions from the field, knowledge required by practitioners to help improve their quality and effectiveness)

16.00 Closing16.10 SIGIH AGM Chair: Peter Vanderwal, Convenor,

Special Interest Group in International Health, Public Health Association of

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SPECIAL THANKS

PHAA and SIGIHAusAID

Partners in countriesPresenters

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