The Department of Global Health and Population, under the leadership Dr. Wafaie Fawzi's team, holds a series of meetings and workshops each January, in collaboration with...
Dr. Iqbal Shah was selected to the recipient of the 2016 Marge Horn Award by the USAID division of Global Health/Population and Reproductive Health/Research Technology and Utilization. The award honors Dr. Shah's years of dedicated efforts to build the capacity of social science researchers in developing countries, generate and utilize research for policy development, and improve the lives of women and girls through better access to reproductive health care.
National Research Coordinator, Dr. Joel Francis, of MDH and focal point for Tanzania from the GHP PPIUD Team, Leigh Senderowicz, will present at the FIGO Lessons Learnt workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The core teams from all six countries will gather with the FIGO staff to discuss the intervention and ideas for improvement moving forward.
Ms. Manju Maharjan presented a paper entitled “Impact and performance of institutionalizing immediate Post-Partum IUD as a routine part of antenatal counselling and delivery room services in selected hospitals in Nepal- preliminary findings” at the special session on PPIUD at the 14th National Conference of NESOG in Kathmandu on April 2, 2016.
Erin Pearson Presents on PPIUD at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America on "Postpartum Insusceptibility to Pregnancy and Modern Contraceptive Use in Nepal and Tanzania"
The Harvard PPIUD Project was represented at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) held in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, from 25 to 28 January 2016. The following presentations were made at the ICFP:
David Canning and Mahesh Karra: “Quality of Counselling and Acceptance of Postpartum IUD in Sri Lanka.”
Erin Pearson: “Predictors of modern contraceptive use four months post-uterine evacuation: Findings from a prospective study in Bangladesh”.”
