WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT COMMUNITY
HEALTH WORKERS? USE THE ROADMAP
The Thematic Working Group on Supporting and Strengthening the Role of Community Health Workers
in Health System Development supports all members working on this topic. We have put together this
handy guide to all of the Community Health Worker content at the Global Symposium so you need never
miss a session. Please do come to our events and join the Group (email Faye Moody Faye.Moody@lstmed.
ac.uk for more information). You can also follow conference proceedings on Twitter by using the hashtags
#HSR2016 and #CHW. Hope you have a great conference experience!
Monday 14 November 2016
08.00 – 17.00 District health systems strengthening and community Meeting Room 16
health platforms: presentations and discussion of evidence
based on three decades of experience in Africa and Asia
Tuesday 15 November 2016
08.30 – 12.00 District health systems strengthening and community Room 16
health platforms: presentations and discussion of evidence
based on three decades of experience in Africa and Asia
13.00 – 17.00 Harmonization in action: working together to build the Room: 1415, SFU-Harbour
community health workforce
Wednesday 16 November 2016
11.00 – 12.00 ORAL! Creating a vision for success: using human-centered Room 16
design to inform implementation of a community health
worker program in Tanzania
11.00 – 12.00 ORAL! Use of self-directed Videovoice diaries to Room 16
understand the perspectives of community health
volunteers in Ethiopia
11.00 – 12.00 ORAL! Community engagement in power and politics Room 10
11.30 – 12.30 MULTI-MEDIA! Photovoice: Health behaviours and life Ballroom C
hazards in Korogocho informal settlement, Kenya
11.30 – 13.00 PANEL! Adaption and innovation in the health system: Meeting Room 14
Embedding quality improvement in community health
in Africa and Asia
12.30 – 14.00 POSTER SESSION
Perceptions of health stakeholders on task shifting and
motivation of community healthworkers in different socio
demographic contexts in Kenya (nomadic, peri-urban and
rural agrarian)
Scaling Up as Resilience: Lessons from India’s decade-long
Community Health Worker programme
Putting CHWs on the map: toward a geography of
community health workers
A Randomized Cluster Trial of the Child Survival
Impact of Deploying Paid Community Health Workers
in rural Tanzania
Politics and power dynamics in health system reform:
exploring the formation of a South African community
health worker union
Improving detection of Tuberculosis through community
based campaign facilitated by Community Health Worker
(CHW) – Experience from Chhattisgarh, India
Measuring motivation in close-to-community health
workers: dynamic, multi-dimensional, and essential
for resilience
Barriers and facilitator to referral system in primary
health care in Mozambique. Perspectives of communities,
supervisors and community health worker in Moamba
and Manhiça
14.30 – 16.00 ORAL! Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats: Meeting Room 1
embedding a culture of quality improvement in community
health provision in six countries
14.30 – 16.00 ORAL! Community health workers in early intervention Meeting Room 1
for children with special needs in the Uttarakhand
Himalayas, India
14.30 – 16.00 ORAL! The effectiveness of community-based primary Meeting Room 1
health care in improving child and maternal health: a
comprehensive review of interventions, approaches and
implementation strategies
Thursday 17 November 2016
07.00 – 08.00 TWG Business meeting – all members encouraged Meeting Room 2
to attend
11.00 – 12.20 MULTIMEDIA! Equity and Rights in Health systems: Take 2. Ballroom C
12.30 – 14.00 POSTER SESSION
Working in effective partnerships – insights into
performance of community health systems
Experience of women on Menstrual Regulation (MR)
services in Bangladesh: Findings from REACHOUT Research
project
Exploring the impacts of decentralisation on health equity
in Kenya: Service availability and access, reaching the
marginalised, quality, and community demand
Policy and discourse on community health workers: A
gender and equity analysis
De-constructing a complex programme using a logic map:
Realist Evaluation of a novel Community Health Worker
programme in Nigeria
16.00 – 17.30 PANEL! The role of community engagement to improve Room 1
health systems resilience
16.00 – 17.30 ORAL! A time-use study of community health worker Room 16
service activities in three rural districts of Tanzania
Friday 18 November 2016
7.15 – 8.30 Unofficial Health Systems Global “brainstorming” and Marriott Vancouver
network building meeting on accountability and CHWs Downtown
addressing maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH).
Pre-register your interest by emailing Amy Manning, AMDD
Program Assistant, at:
[email protected].
12.30 – 13.30 POSTER SESSION
Health-enabling context shapes community-based
treatment adherence support for people living with HIV/
AIDS in South Africa
Examining domains of community health nurse satisfaction
and motivation: results from a mixed-methods baseline
evaluation in rural Ghana
Peer and group supervision for improving motivation and
performance of Health Surveillance Assistants: Lessons
from a quality improvement intervention in rural Malawi
“Now we are talking of supportive supervision”:
participatory action research to improve the quality of
community health worker supervision in Kenya
Community engagement for maternal health: lessons
learned from southern Ethiopia
Impact of Health Promotion Trainings of Community Health
Providers on Community Maternal Health Services in
Cianjur, Indonesia
Working in effective partnerships – insights into
performance of community health systems
Factors Influencing motivation of Community Health
Workers: The Case of Ethiopia Health Extension Workers:
A qualitative study
Optimizing the benefits of Community Health Workers’
unique position between communities and the health
sector: a comparative analysis on factors shaping
relationships in four countries
Implementation research on strengthening service
provision of reproductive services by close to community
providers: lessons from REACHOUT, Bangladesh
Community health volunteers as mediators of accessible,
responsive and resilient community health systems:
lessons from the Health Development Army in Ethiopia
Do innovations to address community health worker
motivation and performance lead to improved coverage
of appropriate treatment for common childhood illnesses
in Uganda and Mozambique
Understanding Volunteer Community Health Worker (CHW)
Motivation: A longitudinal cohort study of CHWs in Bonthe
District, Sierra Leone
A public sector community health worker program
improved new mothers’ satisfaction with the
health system: A cluster-randomized study in
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Development and Evolution of Community Health
Workers in Rural China
Community Health Workers in management of TB, Malaria
and Leprosy in India
Female Community Health Volunteers providing
maternal health services in Nepal: health system
support and barriers
A Mixed Methods Study: Community Health Workers
Utilization of Mobile Health Technology in Improving
Knowledge and Health Seeking Behavior of Pregnant
Women
What works? A facility-based mentorship and coaching
model for community health workers improves the quality
of Community Based Family Planning services in Uganda
How sustainable are village owned platforms for
behaviour change communication and community
health worker support?
Women health extension workers: core players
using e health to strengthen equitable health
systems by responding to community health needs
in Southern Ethiopia
13.30 – 15.00 ORAL! Ethical practice in my work: community health Room 9
workers’ perspectives using photovoice in Wakiso
district, Uganda
14:00 – 15:30 PANEL! Increasing the voice of community health workers Meeting Room 11
in building resilient and responsive health systems
