Seventh Annual CUGH Conference
 
 
Award Finalists

We are pleased to announce the finalists for Lancet/CUGH Awards for Best Student Poster.

 

• Following are the top scoring student poster abstracts (top 3 per track). These posters will be available for viewing at the 2016 CUGH conference for 2 full days - April 9th and April 10th. 

• Judges will view the posters on April 9th. 

• One winner per track will be selected by the end of the day April 9th. 

• On April 10th the winning poster presenters will be recognized a the CUGH awards ceremony where they will be presented with a certificate of recognition and $500 from The Lancet and CUGH leadership to support their continued global health work.

Finalists are listed here by track.


 

GOVERNANCE

 

Title

 

Strengthening Decentralized Primary Health Care in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Narrative Review of Frameworks

Submittant

Katherine Reifler

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

Title

WINNER OF THE 2016 LANCET-CUGH BEST STUDENT POSTER
TRACK: GOVERNANCE 

An Evaluation of Transparency and Accountability in Brazil’s Pharmaceutical Sector

Submittant

Martha Gabriela Martinez

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

Title

 

Ethical Obligations of Schools and Hosts During an International Medical Elective

Submittant

David Sikule

Group

Program Abstract

 

MDGs and SDGs

 

Title

 

Impact of Helping Babies Breathe training on the change in knowledge, attitude and practice among community health care workers in Jimma region, Ethiopia

Submittant

Yassmin Atefi

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

Title

 WINNER OF THE 2016 LANCET-CUGH BEST STUDENT POSTER
TRACK: MDGs and SDGs

Investigating Interventions for Increasing Uptake of Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Services: A Systematic Review

Submittant

Veesta Falahati

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

Title

 

Predictors of medical outcome in 1,712 Ethiopian rape survivors

Submittant

Beryl Manning-Geist

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

HUMAN RESOURCES & WORKFORCE

 

Title

 

Online Learning Improves Substance Use Care in Kenya: Randomized Control Trial Results and Implications

Submittant

Veronic Clair

Group

Scientific Abstract                                                                  

 

 

Title

 WINNER OF THE 2016 LANCET-CUGH BEST STUDENT POSTER
TRACK: HUMAN RESOURCES & WORKFORCE

Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation to Improve Quality of Care in Integrated Community Case Management services in Bugoye, Uganda

Submittant

James Miller

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

Title

 

RAHI (pathfinder) – SATHI (partnership): The Evolution of a Student-led International Initiative into a Multidisciplinary Collaborative Program of Medical Research and Education

Submittant

Apurv Soni

Group

Program Abstract

 

PLANETARY HEALTH/ GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH/ ONE HEALTH

 

Title

 

The Industrial Nakba: A Study of Industrial Dumping in Palestinian Cities

Submittant

Lena Elmuti

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

Title

 

A One-Health Approach to Prioritizing Zoonotic Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2015

Submittant

Radhika Gharpure

Group

Program Abstract

 

 

 

Title

 WINNER OF THE 2016 LANCET-CUGH BEST STUDENT POSTER
TRACK: PLANETARY HEALTH

Improving Newborn Care Quality with a Training and QI Intervention in a Rural Hospital in Gujarat, India

 

Submittant

Darien Shapiro

 

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

 

 

Title

 WINNER OF THE 2016 LANCET-CUGH BEST STUDENT POSTER
TRACK: TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

The implementation of an app-based dataset for injury data acquisition in Montevideo, Uruguay

 

Submittant

Béatrice Bouchard

 

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

Title

 

Managing Major Psychiatric Illnesses through Tele-consultation in a Secondary Care Setting in Rural India

 

Submittant

Timothy Laux

 

Group

Program Abstract

 

 

Title

 

Collaborations between academic institutions and a Colombian health insurance provider to implement a mobile health platform for chronic disease management: Opportunities and Obstacles

 

Submittant

Renee Philson

 

Group

Program Abstract

 

 

NEW AND EMERGING PRIORITIES FOR GLOBAL HEALTH

 

 

Title

 

Global Health in Former Soviet Nations: Investigating the Determinants of Cardiovascular Health Across Armenia

 

Submittant

Calli Bennett

 

 

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

 

Title

 WINNER OF THE 2016 LANCET-CUGH BEST STUDENT POSTER
TRACK: NEW AND EMERGING PRIORITIES FOR GLOBAL HEALTH

Effect of a home-based intervention by trained community health nurses on immunization rates, exclusive breastfeeding, growth parameters, and hospitalizations for respiratory and diarrheal illness – a pilot randomized controlled trial

 

Submittant

Vasanthan Kuppuswamy

 

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

 

Title

 

Risk factors for cytomegalovirus retinitis among individuals with HIV and low CD4 count in northern Thailand

 

Submittant

Yingna Liu

 

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY

 

 

Title

 

Investigating Issues of Rural Water Point Sustainability: A Field Study

 

Submittant

Christina Bowles

 

Group

Program Abstract

 

 

 

Title

 WINNER OF THE 2016 LANCET-CUGH BEST STUDENT POSTER
TRACK: FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY

A Cost Analysis of Multiple Triage Strategies for Early Detection of Cervical Cancer Screening Programs

 

Submittant

Edgar Corona

 

Group

Scientific Abstract

 

 

 

Title

 

A Novel Framework for Evaluating the Private Profitability of Investments in Employee Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

 

Submittant

Frederik Federspiel

 

Group

Program Abstract