Session: Evidence for Effective Scale-Up: The Challenges


Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

3289.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral

Evidence for Effective Scale-Up: The Challenges

This session is the first of a five-part series on the challenges program leaders face in designing and implementing effective strategies for scaling up healthcare interventions and services in resource poor settings. For managers and leaders of healthcare programs, one of the biggest challenges in achieving impact is scaling up and sustaining effort following the introduction of a new service or practice. In the field of reproductive health and family planning, there is burgeoning literature on evidence-based “best practices” gleaned from research and successful pilot programs, but there remains a huge gap in putting this knowledge to practice on a wider scale. The first panel, using reproductive health and family planning programs as the backdrop, will set the stage for subsequent panels focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, tuberculosis, malaria, and child health interventions. Panelists will explore several key programmatic issues and challenges in designing effective programs; the importance of managing the process and politics of institutional change throughout the process; and the different strategies required at key stages of a scale-up effort (introduction, expansion and sustaining effort).

Learning Objectives: • Participants will learn some key issues to address in the development of programs designed to mainstream a new practice or service. • Participants will understand the importance of managing change as part of the program implementation process

Organizer(s):

Lynn Bakamjian, MPH

Moderator(s):

Jeffrey Sine, MPH, PhD

2:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

2:40 PM

From Knowledge to Practice: Challenges in Effective Scale-Up