This is just one of the many videos recently posted by WHO on road and vehicle safety. The WHO published a series of videos on topics including drinking and driving, helmet use, seatbelts, and speeding for Russia, Vietnam, India, Cambodia, Turkey, Mexico, and Kenya. Visit the WHO YouTube channel to see all of the videos.
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Open IH Section Meeting at the CUGH Conference
The following is a message from Paul Freeman, Chair of the IH Section.
Colleagues,
I would like to bring to your attention the Consortium of Universities for Global Conference. Note also as described below we will be hosting a meeting during this event.
Early Bird Discounted Rates Extended for CUGH March 2013 Conference Washington Marriott Wardman Park D.C.
New Deadline: February 15, 2013
Register Now for: CUGH’s 4th ANNUAL GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE
Global Health: Innovation | Implementation | Impact
March 14-16, 2013
Washington DC, USA
Don’t miss the opportunity to join 1,500 Global Health experts and professionals convening to explore the many facets of global health. To register go to http://www.cugh.org and follow the links.
Have your voice heard in Global Health work and advocacy in an independent well established national organization.
An open meeting of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association will be held during the CUGH conference.
Site: At Conference, Washington Marriott Wardman Park Ballroom Balcony A
When: Friday, March 15th at 6:30pm
This meeting is an open forum where key members of the International Health Section of the APHA will inform you about what we do in relation to Global Health, solicit your views on how we can improve our work together, and demonstrate to you the advantages of joining us. Our 1,500 members already include members from across the full spectrum of professionals working in Global Health. Members of CUGH and GHC are especially invited.
CSIS Video: Cervical Cancer and HIV in Women
Cervical cancer kills an estimated 275,000 women every year, 85 percent of whom are in developing countries. The link between HIV and cervical cancer is direct and deadly; HIV-infected women who are also infected with specific types of human papilloma virus (HPV) are 4-5 times more susceptible to cervical cancer than HIV-negative women. This has important implications for HIV programs, especially in countries with significant HIV epidemics.
To understand the opportunities and challenges of integrating cervical cancer screening and treatment into HIV services for women, the Center for Strategic and International Studies traveled to Zambia, which has been at the forefront of integrating these services.
Documentary Film Trailer: “Access to the Danger Zone”
Related to my recent post on the subject of negotiating humanitarian access is this upcoming documentary by MSF. The official description reads, “Directed by Peter Casaer and narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis, this documentary provides a harrowing look at the challenges of delivering humanitarian aid in armed conflicts.”
CGDev Video: It’s All about MeE – Project Design by Experiential Learning
Lant Pritchett discussed a new working paper, which reframes the impact evaluation debate. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) has always been an element of implementing organizations’ accountability to their funders, and recently there has been a push for much greater rigor in evaluations to isolate causal impacts and enable more ‘evidence based’ approaches to accountability and budgeting. Pritchett and his co-author extend the idea of impact evaluation, and show that the techniques of impact evaluation can be directly useful to implementers, rather than a potentially threatening accountability mechanism. They introduce the concept of experiential learning (“e”), which allows implementing agencies to leverage monitoring data to search across alternative project designs. Within-project variations in design can serve as their own counter-factual, dramatically reducing the incremental cost of evaluation and increasing the usefulness of evaluation to implementers. The right combination of M, e, and E provides the right space for innovation and organizational capability building, while at the same time providing accountability and an evidence base for funding agencies.
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