Agenda

Monday, March 14, 2011

7:30-8:30 a.m.

Continental breakfast

8:30-9:00 a.m.

Opening remarks

9:00-10:30 a.m.

Measuring maternal mortality

 

• Chair: Wendy Graham, University of Aberdeen
• Speakers:
  • John Wilmoth, University of California, Berkeley
  • Oona Campbell, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Paul Stupp, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Rafael Lozano, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

10:30-11:00 a.m.

Coffee break

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Noncommunicable disease transitions: rich and poor countries 

 

• Chair: Ala Alwan, World Health Organization
• Speakers:
  • Theo Vos, University of Queensland School of Population Health
  • Mohammad Forouzanfar, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • Kavi Bhalla, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Felicia Knaul, Harvard University

12:45-1:45 p.m.

Dining with data: the Global Health Data Exchange

 

• Speakers:
  • Peter Speyer, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • Paul Stupp, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Abby Metcalf, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

2:00-3:30 p.m.

Emerging methods

 

• Chair: Alex Ezeh, African Population and Health Research Center
• Speakers:
  • Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, Imperial College
  • Lahn Straney, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • Bayard Roberts, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Marie Ng, University of Hong Kong

3:30-4:00 p.m.

Coffee break

4:00-5:30 p.m.

Trends in health inequalities

 

• Chair: Emmanuela Gakidou, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
• Speakers:
  • Mickey Chopra, UNICEF
  • Kathryn Andrews, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • Amit Prasad, World Health Organization Centre for Health Development, Kobe, Japan
  • Miriam Alvarado, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

6:00-7:30 p.m.

Informal evening session: An accountability framework for the Global Strategy on Women's and Children's Health

 

• Moderator:
  • Richard Horton, Chair of the Working Group on Accountability for Results for the Commission on Information & Accountability for Women's and Children's Health

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

7:30-8:30 a.m.

Continental breakfast

Parallel methods workshops

1. Examples of spatial-temporal analyses

8:30-9:15 a.m.

Applied Spatial-Temporal Modeling for Small Area Estimation

• Casey Olives, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

9:15-10:00 a.m.

Where is everyone?:  The importance of measuring and mapping the denominator in deriving health metrics

• Andy Tatem, University of Florida, Gainesville

10:15-11:00 a.m.

Estimation Methods for Space, Time, and Age-Varying Data: Maternal Mortality in 3D

• Kyle Foreman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

11:00-11:45 a.m.

Moderated discussion

• Moderator: Matthew Sparke, University of Washington

2. Methods for synthesizing data from multiple sources

8:30-9:15 a.m.

Systematic analysis of all sources of child mortality using Gaussian Process Regression (GPR)

• Julie Rajaratnam, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

9:15-10:00 a.m.

Trends and geographical patterns of cardiovascular disease risk factors: data, methods, and results for global, national, and subnational estimates

• Majid Ezzati, Imperial College London

10:15-11:00 a.m.

From systematic review to global estimates of disease burden: methods and lessons learned from the next generation of DisMod

• Abraham Flaxman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

11:00-11:45 a.m.

Moderated discussion

• Moderator: Colin Mathers, World Health Organization

Sessions 3 and 4 run 8:30-10:00 a.m. and will repeat 10:15-11:45 a.m.

3. Next generation of verbal autopsy instruments and methods: Reflections from the Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy in Bali, Indonesia

8:30-10:00 a.m.

Critical importance of gold standards in studying the validity of verbal autopsy methods: lessons from the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC)

• Ian Riley, University of Queensland School of Population Health

Performance of six different methods for assigning cause to verbal autopsies in comparison to gold standards

• Alan Lopez, University of Queensland School of Population Health

Machine learning applied to verbal autopsies: Understanding the details of a leading method

• Christopher Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Moderated discussion

• Moderator: Kenji Shibuya, University of Tokyo

4. Spatial statistics workflows

8:30-10:00 a.m.

Lauren Scott, Esri

Note: Coffee Break for all Parallel Methods Workshops will be 10:00-10:15 a.m.

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Dining with data: data visualization tools and GIS

 

• Speaker:
  • Jock Mackinlay, Tableau Software
  • Katie Clift, Esri

1:15-2:45 p.m.

Integrated surveillance systems across traditional boundaries

 

• Chair: Zulfiqar Bhutta, Aga Khan University Medical Center
• Speakers:
  • Ali Mokdad, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • Ties Boerma, World Health Organization
  • Anddy Omoluabi, Management Sciences for Health
  • Tom Achoki, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

2:45-3:15 p.m.

Coffee break

3:15-5:00 p.m.

Responsible data sharing and strengthening country capacity for analysis

 

• Chair: Elizabeth Pisani, Ternyata Ltd.
• Panelists:
  • Basia Zaba, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Peter Smith, Imperial College
  • Tara Nutley, Futures Group International
  • Neil McDonnell, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

7:30-8:30 a.m.

Continental breakfast

8:30-10:15 a.m.

New quantitative tools for priority setting

 

• Chair John-Arne Røttingen, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services
• Speakers:
  • Daniel Wikler, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Shubha Kumar, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Jake Marcus, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • Joshua Salomon, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Daniel Chisholm, World Health Organization

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Coffee break

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Poster session

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Lunch session: next generation of health system performance metrics

 

• Chair: Adetokunbo Lucas, Harvard School of Public Health
• Speakers:
  • Julio Frenk, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Christopher Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

1:45-3:00 p.m.

Controversies in the burden of malaria

 

• Chair: Debrework Zewdie, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• Speakers:
  • Adam Bennett, Tulane University
  • Richard Cibulskis, World Health Organization
  • Richard Feachem, University of California, San Francisco

3:00-3:30 p.m.

Coffee break

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Indicators and targets for a post-millennium development goal world

 

• Chair: Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Panelists:
  • Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Howard Frumkin, University of Washington School of Public Health
  • Fatima Marinho de Souza, Pan American Health Organization
  • Richard Horton, The Lancet
  • Alan Lopez, University of Queensland School of Population Health

5:00-5:30 p.m.

Synthesis of the meeting

 

• Richard Horton, The Lancet