Public Health in the Age of HIV: Reflections and Redirections The 2 nd Annual UWC HIV In Context Research Symposium

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1 Public Health in the Age of HIV: Reflections and Redirections The 2 nd Annual UWC HIV In Context Research Symposium

2 UWC Centre for Research in HIV and AIDS, UWC School of Public Health, VLIR UOS UWC Dynamics of Building a Better Society Research Partnership March 25 26, 2010 This year s Symposium examines public health in Africa in the age of HIV, and HIV research through a public health lens. Does a public health approach improve HIV research? How well do public health research and training fit with on the ground priorities? Where is the field heading? Where SHOULD it be heading? Where does HIV fit into this picture? Where do public health and HIV fit into larger struggles for system wide and social transformation? What does all of this mean for our schools of public health and for HIV related research? Join colleagues from universities, municipal, provincial, and national government, SANAC, health services and civil society as we take stock, listen and debate in order to understand and transcend boundaries between issues and perspectives.

3 AGENDA THURSDAY 25 March 2010 HIV RESEARCH IN PUBLIC HEALTH CONTEXT 8:00 8:30 Registration 8:30 11:00 HIV RESEARCH IN AFRICA REFLECTIONS AND (RE?)DIRECTIONS 8:30 8:45 Introduction to the Symposium Welcome Brian O Connell, Rector, UWC Objectives and Rules of Engagement Christina Zarowsky (UWC) 8:45 9:00 Highlights of the CDC Synergy Meeting on Integration of PMTCT into PHC Anna Voce (UKZN) 9:00 10:00 Roundtable : Taking Stock: 20 Years of HIV Research In, On, or For Africa Moderator: Christina Zarowsky (UWC) Panelists: Ashraf Coovadia (SANAC/Wits) Clinicians, Government, and Civil Society Steven Callens (U Ghent) Clinicians versus public health? Implications for research Tania Vergnani (UWC HIV&AIDS Programme) On and Beyond Campus Nompumelelo Zungu (HSRC) HSRC perspectives Marion Stevens (Health Systems Trust) HIV and Reproductive Rights Virginia de Azevedo (Khayelitsha Subdistrict, City of Cape Town Health Department) A view of HIV research from the front lines 10:00 11:00 11:00 11:30 TEA AND POSTER SESSION 11:30 15:30 HIV RESEARCH IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SYSTEMS CONTEXT 11:30 13:00 Contexts and approaches Chair and discussant: Richard Masse (Universite de Montreal) Poverty, inequality, social (in)justice: Before and beyond public health and HIV Elroy Paulus (Black Sash) Feminist Research and HIV Lindsay Clowes (UWC) Women s health, systems, global funds Matthew Chersich (U Ghent/Wits U)

4 HIV as a chronic disease? Ehi Igumbor (UWC) 13:00 14:00 LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION 14:00 15:30 Prevention and treatment Chair and discussant: Peter Barron, Advisor, NDOH Intro: Reflections on scaling up and integrating HIV and public health services Yogan Pillay HIV Prevention Anne Cockcroft (CIET Botswana) Going Upstream Innovations in treatment and care in public health context : Integration Plus! Tanya Doherty (MRC/UWC) o Discussant Christo Heunis (UFS) Public HIV Drug Resistance Database: Resources for public health and HIV research? Tulio de Oliveira (Africa Centre/UKZN) Human resources and human costs Helen Schneider (UCT) 15:30 16:00 TEA AND POSTER SESSION 16:00 17:30 Public Session: Panel Public Health in the Age of HIV: Virology, Public Health, or Social Transformation? Panelists: Ashraf Coovadia (SANAC) Virginia de Azevedo (Khayelitsha Subdistrict, City of Cape Town Health Department) Tania Vergnani (UWC HIV&AIDS Programme) David Sanders (UWC School of Public Health and Peoples Health Movement) Elroy Paulus (Black Sash) 18:00 20:30 LAUNCH OF UWC CENTRE FOR HIV AND AIDS RESEARCH Cocktails and opening speeches and including performance by UWC Peer Educators Theatre Group (19h00)

5 FRIDAY 26 MARCH 2010 PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE AGE OF HIV REFLECTIONS AND (RE?)DIRECTIONS 8:30 9:00 Welcome (back), Highlights of Day 1 Christina Zarowsky 9:00 10:30 REFLECTIONS: (Mis?)Fit between public health priorities, research, training and service delivery over the past 20 years Chair: Christo Heunis (UFS) William Pick (Professor Emeritus; Ministerial Advisory Committee on the National Health Insurance), David Sanders (Founding Director, School of Public Health, UWC) What are the implications of our reflections? 10:30 11:00 TEA AND POSTER SESSION 11:00 13:00 DIRECTIONS Chair and moderator: Uta Lehmann (UWC) (Re?)DIRECTIONS: The field of public health: Where should public health research, practice, policy, and teaching go in the next years? Where is the edge? What is the core? Where should who be? Panelists: Anna Voce (UKZN) Mary Kawanga (Wits) Steve Knight (UKZN) David Buso (WSU) Lucy Gilson (UCT) Soraya Elloker (Mitchell s Plain Subdistrict, City of Cape Town Health Department) James Claasen (Subdistrict Manager, Mitchell s Plain, Western Cape Department of Health) 13:00 14:00 LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION

6 14:00 15:30 REGIONAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Chair: Christina Zarowsky (UWC) European and N S partnership perspectives on clinicians versus public health Steve Callens (U Ghent, Belgium) Quebec and Canadian histories of public health: government, universities, and the public Richard Masse (Universite de Montreal, Canada) Collaboration in research and public health systems strengthening Carel IJsselmuiden (COHRED, by web link from Geneva) Where are public health and HIV in national health research capacity strengthening in Malawi? Andrew Mpesi (National Council for Science and Technology, Malawi) Building, sustaining, and rebuilding capacity for health and HIV research and action A view from Zimbabwe Simukai Shamu (U Zimbabwe, and UWC) 15:30 16:30 HIV IN AND BEYOND PUBLIC HEALTH: Bringing it all together, where do we go from here? Christina Zarowsky and Penny Morrell 16:30 CLOSE EVENING: Excursion to Cape Town Saturday 27 March 2010 WORKSHOPS Workshop: Research planning/proposal development Networking opportunities