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Roundtable: Challenges and success stories in international health

Monday, November 4, 2013: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Roundtable
This session will address the various challenges faced in global public health and the challenges faced in global public health and highlight best practices which have helped to improve the health status of diverse communities.
Session Objectives: Discuss the present day challenges and success stories in public health globally.
Moderator:
Vamsi Vasireddy, MD, MPH, DrPH

Table 1
Self-reported prescription pain pill, sedative, or tranquilizer use among females in 11 provincial capitals in Afghanistan—findings from the Afghanistan national urban drug use study (ANUDUS)   
Linda Cottler, PhD, MPH, Corrine Ruktanonchai, MPH, CPH, Mohammad A. Ghani, MD, Mark Gold, MD and David Martin, PhD
Table 2
Violence against Chinese female sex workers from their stable partners: A hierarchical multiple regression analysis   
Chen Zhang, MPH, Xiaoming Li, PhD, Yan Hong, PhD, Shan Qiao, PhD, Yuejiao Zhou, MD, Shaobing Su, Med and Liying Zhang, PhD
Table 3
Nationwide implementation of integrated community case management of childhood illness in Rwanda: Impact on mortality and health facility utilization   
Adam Levine, MD, MPH, Cathy Mugeni, Richard B. Mark Munyaneza, MD, Epiphanie Mulindahabi, MPH, Hannah Cockrell, BA, Justin Glavis-Bloom, BA, Cameron T. Nutt, Claire M. Wagner, Corine Karema, Erick Gaju, BSc, Alphonse Rukundo, BSc, Jean Pierre Habimana, BSc, Fidele Ngabo and Agnes Binagwaho
  
Table 4
Obese women less likely to have low serum ferritin levels, Nicaragua   
Amanda Wendt, PhDc, Maria Elena Jefferds, PhD, Cria Perrine, PhD, Patricia Halleslevens, Lic and Kevin Sullivan, PhD
Table 5
What are the effects of women's economic self-help group programs on women's empowerment? a systematic review   
Carinne Brody, DrPH, Shari Dworkin, PhD, MS, Megan Dunbar, DrPH MPH, Laura Pascoe, Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,CHES, Ruby Warnock, MPH and Keely Johnson, MPH (c)
Table 6
Child health in Myanmar in 2012 - what is the way forward?   
Kerry Bruce, DrPH, Jennifer Mulik, MPH, MA, Matthew Tiedemann, MA, Erica Tubbs, MPH, MA and Thidar Lin, MD
Table 7
Does social status predict appropriate treatment of child diarrheal disease? evidence from Peru   
Kathryn Volpicelli, MPH and Alison M. Buttenheim, PhD, MBA
Table 8
Peruvian community women empowered to reduce anemia in children under five   
Claudia Llanten, MD, MPH, Cecilia Izarra, RN and Heather Platter, MS, Public Health Certificate
Table 9
Contextual challenges to smokeless tobacco cessation among vulnerable urban Indian women   
Jean Schensul, PhD, Saritha Nair, Ph.D. and Sameena Bilgi, M.Phil.
Table 10
Better cord care saves babies' lives: Mapping chlorhexidine program introduction and implementation   
Carmit Keddem, MA, Mary A. Carnell, MD MPH, Sandee Minovi, MA, Robin Houston and Goli Lamiri, MBBS, DTM&H, MPH
  

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