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Thinking global: CHWs impacting health internationally

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Roundtable

Moderator:

Katherine Mitchell, MSW

Organizer:

Susan Mayfield-Johnson, PhD, MCHES

Table 1

Initiating a community health worker network within tent communities in post-earthquake Haiti
Julie Tanaka, MPH, MBA, Linda Mobula, MD, MPH and Jacob Baptiste, MD

Table 2

Promoting immigrant women's health: Cape verdean community health workers' perspectives and practice
Maria De Jesus, PhD

Table 3

Community health workers for surgical patients: A pilot study of a mobile health application to enable the early detection of surgical site infection by community health workers in rural Haiti
Alexi Matousek, MD, Lars Hagander, MD, Marguerite Hoyler, John Meara, MD, DMD, MBA and Samuel Finlayson, MD, MPH

Table 4

Acceptability and adequacy of self-administered low vaginal swabs and clean catch urine by pregnant women in a rural setting in Bangladesh with assistance of community health worker (CHW)
Jamal Uddin, MBBS,MPH, Anne CC Lee, MD, MPH, Abu Sadek Moniruzzaman, MBBS, MPH, Ashraf Khan Eusufzi, Iftekhar Rafiqullah, Rasheduzzaman Shah, Dipak Mitra, MBBS, MPH, PhD, M. A. Quaiyum, MBBS and Abdullah Baqui, MBBS, MPH, DrPH

Table 5

CHWs as clinical trial staff: Strategies used and lessons learned from a study in rural Uganda
Monique Mueller, MSPH, Holly Burke, PhD, MPH, Leonard Bufumbo, MSc, Anja Lendvay, MPH, Brian Perry, MPH and Anthony Mbonye, MD, PhD

Table 6

Effectiveness of refresher training to community health workers and their supervisor and defaulter tracing activity in nyanza province
Yoshito Kawakatsu, MPH, Tomohiko Sugishita, M.A.,M.D., M.P.H., Kennedy Orwenjo, Kennedy Kiboshia, Steve Wakhule, Eric Were and Sumihisa Honda, Ph.D

Table 7

Lessons from quality collaboratives for community level supply chains: Using peer-to-peer learning to improve supply chain knowledge and practices amongst CHWs in Rwanda
Alexis Heaton, Patrick Nganji, Megan Noel, Yasmin Chandani, Michelle Pahl, Sarah Andersson, B Phar , MPH, Amanda Ombeva and Mildred Shieshia

Table 8

Running a chw baseline survey in the most remote corner of Liberia
Avi Kenny

Table 9

Adapting the partners in health community-based model of “accompaniment” to Rwanda's community health worker program
Didi Bertrand Farmer, MA, Peter Niyigena, BA, Elias Ngizwenayo, Vincent Nsabimana, Grace Ryan, BA, Leslie Berman, MPH, Daniel Palazuelos, MD, MPH and Michael L. Rich, MPH, MD

Table 10

Frontline health workers, technology, maps, and access to care
Jen Lemberger, MPH and Andrew Schroeder, PhD, MPP

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

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