Event Overview
These sessions cover new solutions for improving quality of care in areas of labor and delivery, family planning, and maternal health, which can impact health outcomes and help address systemic barriers to quality. Gain insight from experts into research and innovation in the maternal health space.
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Mentoring interventions to improve the management of labor and delivery, including complications and referrals in Uttar Pradesh
This session examines, compares, and contrasts insights from the Better Birth Trial and implementation partners working on nurse mentoring interventions to identify factors that facilitate or pose barriers to their implementation and effectiveness.
Facilitators: Devendra Khandait (Gates Foundation) and Suneeta Krishnan (Gates Foundation)
Panelists: Katherine Semrau (Ariadne Labs), Sanjiv Kumar (India Health Action Trust), Michelle Kermode (Nossal Institute for Global Health), and Bulbul Sood (JHPIEGO)
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Improving the quality of human resources to impact maternal and neonatal outcomes in Bihar
This session reflects on findings from the implementation of a 2017 state-wide nurse mentoring program and its contributions to improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes in Bihar.
Facilitators: Debarshi Bhattacharya (Gates Foundation) and Priya Nanda (Gates Foundation)
Panelists: Tanmay Mahapatra (Care India), Rakhi Dandona (Public Health Foundation of India), Sridhar Srikantiah (Care India), Abha Mehndiratta (IHI), Kirti Iyengar (UNFPA)
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Lightning Talk: Challenges affecting quality of care
This session highlights challenges to quality of care that may be operating at the level of the health system, individual provider, or facility.
Speakers: Steve Kretschmer (Surgo Foundation). Niranjan Saggurti (Population Council), Arnab Dey (Sambodhi), Vishwajeet Kumar (Community Empowerment Lab). Linda Bartlett (Johns Hopkins University)
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Lightning Talk: Solutions for health systems barriers to quality
This session proposes solutions to help address barriers to consistent quality healthcare provision by the health systems.
Speakers: Rob Janett (Aceso Global), Dilys Walker (University of California, San Francisco), Abhishek Gopalka (BCG). Manoj Mohanan (Duke University). Hemant Shah (Care)
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What have we learned about disrespect and abuse in maternity care?
This session focuses on the development of interventions to promote respectful maternal care, as well as how to measure instances of disrespect and abuse.
Facilitator: Nicole Warren (Johns Hopkins University)
Panelists: Karima Khalil (Oxford Policy Management), Aparajita Gogoi (C3), Aditi Iyer (Public Health Foundation of India), Shalini Singh (Indian Council of Medical Research), Lynn Freedman (Columbia University)
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Lessons learned and implications of family planning quality of care studies in Uttar Pradesh and BIHAR
This session reflects on the quality of public and private family planning service delivery in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and implications for the introduction of new contraceptive methods into the public program from a rights-based perspective.
Facilitator: Priya Nanda (Gates Foundation)
Panelists: Poonam Muttreja (Population Foundation of India), Gita Sen (Public Health Foundation of India), Hemant Shah (Care India), Preeti Anand (India Health Action Trust), Ravi Verma (International Center for Research on Women), Sanjeev Gaikwad (Abt Associates), V.S Chandrashekar (Foundation for Reproductive Health Services India)
