Track 6 Programme
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Track 6: During this track, conference participants will present and discuss topics with relevance to nutrition, non-communicable diseases, oral health, and mental health with relevance for low- and middle-income countries. We will engage in multidisciplinary discussions and include joint challenges and interconnectedness between the topic areas. Basic clinical, qualitative, and quantitative research, implementation science and research with relevance for the lifespan is encouraged.
Responsible: Ingunn Engebretsen, Nancy Birungi, Eva Gerdts, Anne Hatløy, Hanne Rosendahl-Riise
Track 6 - Joint Keynote with track 7 - Day 1 (28 Sept) 11:00
Name: Pia Britto
Institution: UNICEF Lao PDR
Speciality: developmental psychology and early childhood development
Date: 28.09.21
Time: 11:00-11:50
Title: Nurturing care
Short bio
Britto has extensive experience in international development and early childhood development policy and programmes. She has conducted research into research was understanding governance and finance of social sector systems that deliver services for young children and families in Lao PDR. Learn more from her UNICEF Lao PDR web page.
Twitter: @PiaBritto
Track 6 - Joint Keynote with tracks 1 & 7 - Day 1 (28 Sept) 15:00
Name: Peter Ventevogel, M.D., Ph.D.,
Institution: UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency
Speciality: Mental health in humanitarian settings
Date: 28.09.21
Time: 15:00-15:50
Title: Addressing the mental health of refugees in low- and middle-income settings
Short bio
Ventevogel is a psychiatrist and a medical anthropologist. Since 2013 he is the Senior Mental Health Officer with UNHCR, the refugee agency of the United Nations. In this role he is responsible for technical guidance and support to the country operations of UNHCR worldwide. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of ‘Intervention, Journal for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Areas’ and worked with NGOs in Afghanistan, Burundi and the Netherlands. In 2016, he defended his doctoral dissertation ‘Borderlands of mental health: Explorations in medical anthropology, psychiatric epidemiology and health systems research in Afghanistan and Burundi’.
Twitter: @VentevogelPeter
Plenary with invited speakers - Day 2 (29 Sept.) 10:00
Name: Professor Richard Watt
Institution: University College London
Speciality: dental public health, social determinants of oral health inequalities and the development and evaluation of health improvement interventions
Date: 29.09.21
Time: 10:00-10:50
Title: Are we creating recommendations for real life?
Short bio
Watt says that oral health inequalities remain a significant public health problem in the UK. His research focuses upon exploring the social determinants of these inequalities and in developing and evaluating effective oral health improvement interventions. Learn more from his UCL web page.
Twitter: @UCL_DentalPH
Name: Dr. Christiane Horwood
Institution: University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Rural Health (CRH)
Speciality: maternal and child health, and nutrition, including infant feeding, skills development, community health and implementation research
Date: 29.09.21
Time: 10:00-10:50
Title: Are we creating recommendations for real life?
Short bio
Horwood has experience of working in several African countries including Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She has been the principal investigator for a number of large programme evaluations and randomized controlled trials (RCTs), including for newborn care, and breastfeeding support. Learn more from her UKZN web page.
- is organised by the University of Bergen (UiB) on behalf of the Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH)
- with enabling partners (Centre for International Health, UiB; Haukeland University Hospital; Global Health Norway, the Norwegian Research School of Global Health; and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH))
- and sponsors (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH); the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP); and Merck)
- and supported by the Research Council of Norway.
- The abstracts will be presented in a special issue of the Journal of Tropical Medicine & International Health (TMIH).