Program & Agenda
PHI2008 - "Envisioning Options for Integrated Public Health Information Systems for Low Resource Settings: Components, Connections, Partners, Strategies"
*This schedule is accurate as of Sept 17, 2008. Download the full program [HERE]
Thursday, September 18, 2008
7:30 - 8:30 am REGISTRATION OPENS and Continental Breakfast - Bell Harbor International Conference Center
8:30 - 9:45 am Welcome and Keynote Address
- Welcome and Global Partners Progress since PHI2007 -
- Keynote Address - "Making the eHealth Connection: Global Partnerships, Local Solutions," A Summary of the Rockefeller Bellagio eHealth Conference on Public Health Informatics
Les Lenert, Director, National Center for Public Health Informatics, CDC, USA - Presentation Slides
- Observations and Outcomes from Bellagio -
Clifford Kamara, Director, Information and Planning, Ministry of Health, Sierra Leone
9:45 - 10:00 am Break/Poster Session
10:00 - 12:00
Plenary Session I: National Approaches from Countries Leading the Development of Integrated PHI Systems
Moderator: David Lubinski, PATH, USA
Speakers:
- Richard Gakuba, e-Health Coordinator, King Faisal Hospital, MOH, Rwanda
- Ian Smith, Information and Computer Services, Manager, Ministry of Health, Belize - Presentation Slides
- Sally Stansfield, Executive Secretary of Health Metrics Network, WHO, USA
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Plenary Session II: Creative Approaches to Collecting and Linking Data and Systems to Improve the Health of the Public
Moderator: Walter Curioso, Research Professor, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Speakers:
- Eric Rasmussen, President, CEO, InSTEDD
- Ann Marie Kimball, Professor, Epidemiology Health Services, Director, APEC EINet
"Regional Surveillance Networks: Can, Should They Be Globally Integrated?" - Presentation Slides
- Jesus Peinado, Head, Biostatistics Data Management & Health Informatics, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
"Building a Web-Based Platform for a Latin American HIV Repository Database" - Presentation Slides
3:00 - 3:15 pm Break/Poster Session
3:15 - 4:15 pm
Discussion Panel: Funding Challenges and Successful Strategies for Global Public Health Informatics
Moderator: Rajan Madhok, Medical Director, Manchester Primary Care Trust, England, Honorary Professor, University of Manchester, England, Visiting Professor, University of Teesside and Manchester
Metropolitan University, England
- Karl Brown, Associate Director, Applied Technology, The Rockefeller Foundation, USA
- Kris Tolle, Senior Research Program Manager for Biomedical Computing, Microsoft Research, USA
"Microsoft Research and Global Health Informatics"
- Flora Katz, Program Officer, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
"Leveraging eHealth Partnerships to Do Good and Do It Well"
- Mark Landry, Senior Informatics Specialist, PEPFAR, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator
- Joe Jasinski, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
- Ian Pett, Chief Health Systems and Strategic Planning, Health Section, Program Division, UNICEF
4:15 - 5:15 pm Break Out Session
5:15 pm - Adjourn
6:30 pm - 10:00 pm Dinner at the Space Needle
- 5:30 - 6:30 - Access to the Observation Deck, No Host Bar
Friday, September 19, 2008
7:30 - 8:00 am Continental breakfast - Bell Harbor International Conference Center
7:30 am REGISTRATION OPENS
8:00 - 10:00 am
Plenary Session III: Decision Support for Public Health and Policy Development: Building Capacity and Sustainability
Moderator: Holly Ladd, Vice President & Center Director, AED-SATELLIFE center for Health Information & Technology
Speakers:
- Christopher Bailey, Coordinator for Healthcare Informatics, WHO with Hamish Fraser, Director of Informatics and Telemedicine Partners in Health, Assistant Professor, Harvard University, USA and Christopher Seebregts, Project Manager, Health Informatics, Medical Research Council, South Africa
"Open MRS: Components and Connections to Integrated Health Information Systems" - Presentation Slides
- Robert Martin, Laboratory Science Officer, Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC
"Implementing Laboratory Information Systems to Health Information Systems in Resource Limited Settings" - Presentation Slides
- Iain Buchan, Professor of Public Health Informatics, NIBHI, University of Manchester, UK
"Digital Economy: A Global Public Health Frontier" - Presentation Slides
- Pape Gaye, President, CEO, Intrahealth International, Inc.
"Capacity Development in IT" - Presentation Slides
10:00 - 10:30 am Break/Poster Session
10:30 - 12:00 pm
Response Panel
Moderator: Patrick O’Carroll, Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service, Regional Health Administrator (RHA)
- Dr. T. Bedirhan Üstün, Coordinator Classifications, Terminologies and Standards, WHO
- Holly Ladd, Vice President & Center Director, AED-SATELLIFE center for Health Information & Technology
- Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Health Scientist (Informatics), Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC, USA - Presentation Slides
- Tadesse Wuhib, Acting Manager, Global Public Health Informatics Program, National Center for Public Health Informatics, CDC, USA
- Beatriz de Faria Leao, Zilics Health Information Systems, Brazil
- Moe Ko Oo, Regional Coordinator, Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Regional Coordinating Office, Ministry of Health, Thailand
- Edward Mensah, Associate Professor of Health Economics and Information Management, Director of Graduate Program in Public Health Informatics, Division of Health Policy & Administration, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Work Session: Future Work for Moving Forward with GPPHI
Moderator: David Ross, Director, Public Health Informatics Institute
- Reports from small group discussions and identify GPPHI projects, funding sources and potential volunteers.
3:00 - 4:00 pm Closing Remarks
- David Ross, Director, Public Health Informatics Institute
4:00 pm Adjourn
