GPHW2023: Toward Improved Quality in Public Health Data: A Competency-based Framework for the Training and Evaluation of Individuals Conducting Interviews with Communities

Theme: Preparing Public Health Professionals & Associations for the New Challenges

Date and Time: 03 April 2023 | 17:00 – 18:00 (CEST)

Event Description: In reflecting on the preparation of the next generation of stakeholders engaging in public health work, task-sharing, and the training of non-specialist persons in different areas in the field, is crucial in building capacity to face challenges to come. In this process, trust in public health data is of paramount importance, yet there is considerable variability in the training and preparation of those involved in data collection. Individuals with limited research training, like students or volunteers, often play a central role in collecting data and, to date, no systematic means of evaluating data-collector or researcher competencies exists.

Researchers at the Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab at The New School in New York City, in collaboration with the Center for Global Mental Health Equity at George Washington University, developed the Assessment of Key Interviewing Factors for Research Assistants (AKIRA). The AKIRA is an 8-item competency-based assessment tool for individuals conducting data-collection interviews with the population. It provides a framework for the training and evaluation of individuals collecting data in various research, participant screening, or program monitoring settings. It focuses on the enhancement of best practices, cross-cultural and trauma-informed communication skills, fidelity, and on the identification of harmful behaviors and areas of improvement.

This webinar will discuss the development, pilot implementation and future applications of the AKIRA, as a competency-based assessment tool to improve quality of data collection in diverse public health settings, with a particular focus on global mental health.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s):

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Participants will receive a Zoom link to attend upon registration. A link to the recording may be available to those who register but cannot attend live.

Registration: https://newschool.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvceioqj0iE9MYQnTXiGXvXPYzSbJ5vwrk 

GPHW2023: Semana mundial de la salud pública – Colombia

Theme: 5 Themes

Date and Time: 03 – 07 April 2023 | 16:00 – 06:00 (CEST)

Event Description: En este momento Colombia está atravesando un momento coyuntural, relacionado con la propuesta de una reforma al sistema de salud; las temáticas tratadas y las campañas que se divulgarán en redes sociales, tocarán algunos aspectos cruciales de la misma. Durante la semana del 3 al 7 de abril de 2023, la Asociación Colombiana de Salud Pública (Colombia), se adhiere a la celebración de la segunda edición de la Semana Mundial de la Salud Pública, con el tema “Por la construcción de un sistema sanitario más equitativo, sostenible y fuerte” convocado por la Federación Mundial de Asociaciones de Salud Pública (WFPHA); se expondran diferentes temáticas relacionadas con el quehacer en Salud Pública así: La preparación de profesionales y asociaciones de salud pública para los nuevos desafíos, la lucha contra el cambio climático, el fortalecimiento de nuestras comunidades vulnerables y la salud cómo un derecho humano.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): Spanish

Organiser(s): Asociación Colombiana de Salud Pública

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom and YouTube

Registration: https://www.saludpublicacolombia.org/

GPHW2023: Il ruolo della riabilitazione nei pazienti Long COVID-19

Theme: Preparing Public Health Professionals & Associations for the New Challenges

Date and Time: 03 April 2023 | 16:00 – 16:30 (CEST)

Event Description: Most patients recover from COVID-19 without any consequences, but nearly 10% have persistent symptoms that vary in severity, reducing health-related quality of life. The most common symptoms are fatigue (58%), headache (44%), attention disorder (27%), hair loss (25%) and dyspnoea (24%). The aim of this study was to establish the role of rehabilitation in patients presenting fatigue as the main post-COVID-19 symptom.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): Italian

Organiser(s):

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: https://meet.google.com/dqh-kbon-njd?hs=224 

Registration: N/A

GPHW2023: Health Workforce Facing Health Challenges

Theme: Preparing Public Health Professionals & Associations for the New Challenges

Date and Time: 03 April 2023 | 16:00 – 17:30 (CEST)

Event Description: Health workforce are considered one of the main building blocks of health systems and thus a strong contributor to the fight against public health challenges. As medical students are part of the health workforce, this session will shed the light on their role in tackling the health challenges, the current situation of health workforce worldwide and the needed structural and systemic changes that would allow competent health workforce to contribute to the strengthening and resilience of health systems, while preserving their health and wellbeing.

Event Type: Panel Discussion & Round Table

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA)

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom

Registration: https://ifmsa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdu-gqTwuGtIeDxrbqEsVzL0AIYmmA2Xq 

GPHW2023: Equity in Action

Theme: 5 Themes

Date and Time: 03 – 07 April 2023 | 16:00 (CEST)

Event Description: As part of the actions of the Health Equity Network of the Americas (HENA) to promote and position the construction of more equitable, sustainable, and resilient health systems and societies, a digital media campaign will be carried out to disseminate the positioning, scope, and impact on Health Equity through multidisciplinary and multilevel work in the regional and global context that allows the HENA.

To this end, reference will be made to the different thematic axes addressed by the network according to priorities identified from a public health perspective: multisectoral articulation, social determinants and determination, migration, human rights, and the situation of pregnant women and homeless people.

The campaign will include a short positioning video on Equity with the participation of the members of the Board of Directors of the Network, publication of images throughout the week in the social networks of HENA, dissemination of an opinion article (in social networks and media of the University of Costa Rica) and the launching of the first bulletin of the positioning of HENA. All of these will also be shared with the members of the Board of Directors for their respective dissemination in the organizations they are part of.

Event Type: Social Media Campaign

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): Spanish

Organiser(s): Health Equity Network of the Americas (HENA)

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn

Registration: N/A