Health Equity: 01/27/09

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

[EQ] IEA Capacity Building conference for the global South - Jaipur, India April 5-17, 2009

First IEA Capacity Building conference for the global South

International Epidemiologic Association (IEA)

Jaipur, India April 5-17, 2009

Website: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/iea/Welcome.htm

The deadline for applications is: February 1, 2009

Information about the course and the application form are available at: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/iea/SEAsia.htm

The aims of the IEA are “to facilitate communication among those engaged in research and teaching in epidemiology throughout the world, and to engage in the development and use of epidemiological methods in all fields of health including social, community and preventive medicine and health services administration.”

To advance these objectives, the IEA publishes the bi-monthly International Journal of Epidemiology and every three year organizes a World Congress of Epidemiology, with regional conferences held in the interim.

In particular, one of the IEA’s current emphases is to build epidemiological capacity in the global South, as well as to increase equitable global South/global North research collaborations. An important focus of many IEA members is on health inequities, within and between countries and regions, with the aim of producing knowledge and evidence that can be used to reduce these inequities and improve population health.

To join the IEA: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/iea/application1.htm

Overview of the course

• Descriptive epidemiology

• Study design options (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, intervention studies)

• Study design issues (confounding, selection bias, information bias, effect modification)

• Data analysis (stratified analysis, multivariable analysis)

• Writing and publishing epidemiological research (conducted with the editorial team of the International Journal of Epidemiology)

Course DIrectors

Professor Neil Pearce (New Zealand)

Professor Rodolfo Saracci (France)

Dr D Prabhakaran (India)

Other faculty

Professor George Davey Smith (UK)

Professor Shah Ebrahim (UK)

Professor Lorenzo Richiardi (Italy)

Dr Silvia Franceschi (France)

Dr Rajeev Gupta (India)

Professor K. Srinath Reddy (India)

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[EQ] Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems Better evidence, better policies, better development results

Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems
Better evidence, better policies, better development results

UNICEF, in partnership with the World Bank, UN Economic Commission for Europe, IDEAS (International Development Evaluation Association),
IOCE (International organization for Cooperation in Evaluation), DevInfo and MICS - Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys

Available online as PDF file [322p.] at: http://www.ceecis.org/remf/Country-ledMEsystems.pdf

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“……In supporting countries to uphold and protect the rights of children and women and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, we recognize the importance of using evidence to shape policy and practice, both internationally and in specific country contexts.

Unfortunately, we have to acknowledge that the reality is often far removed from the lofty ideals of international agreements. So much evaluation work, especially in developing countries, is still donor-driven and designed to meet the needs of outside agencies. The change that is needed is a paradigmatic one if monitoring and evaluation are truly to inform national policy making processes. It will require a change of attitude and behaviour as well as the building of capacity at many levels….” Finbar O’Brien, Director Evaluation Office UNICEF Headquarters

Contents

Prefaces:

Finbar O’Brien, Director, Evaluation Office, UNICEF Headquarters

Ray Rist, President, International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)

Oumoul Khayri Ba Tall, President, International Organization for the Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)

Editorial:

Marco Segone, Senior Regional Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS, and former Vice President,

International Organization for the Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)

Part 1

Why country-led monitoring and evaluation systems?

Enhancing evidence-based policy making through country-led monitoring and evaluation systems.

Evaluating development. Is the country the right unit of account?

Robert Picciotto, Visiting Professor, King’s College, London and former Director General, Evaluation, the World Bank

The strategic intent. Understanding strategic intent is the key to successful country-led monitoring and evaluation systems.

Jean Serge Quesnel, Professor at the United Nations System

Staff College, Adjunct Professor at Carleton University and Professeur

Associé at the École Nationale d’Administration Publique of Quebec

Supporting partner country ownership and capacity in development evaluation. The OECD DAC evaluation network.

Hans Lundgren, Head of Evaluation Section, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD Megan Kennedy, Consultant, OECD

Country-led evaluations. Learning from experience.

Osvaldo Feinstein, Professor at the Master in Evaluation, Complutense University, Madrid, and former Manager, Operations Evaluation Department, the World Bank

Country-led impact evaluation. A survey of development practitioners.

Marie-Hélène Adrien, President, Universalia, and former President, IDEAS

Denis Jobin, Vice President, IDEAS, and Manager, Evaluation Unit, National Crime Prevention Center, Public Safety, Canada

Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems

Better evidence, better policies, better development results The role of national, regional and international evaluation organizations in strengthening country-led monitoring and evaluation systems.

Oumoul Khayri Ba Tall, President,International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)

Bringing statistics to citizens: a “must” to build democracy in the XXI century

Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician, OECD

Proactive is the magic word.

Petteri Baer, Regional Advisor, Statistical Division,

UN Economic Commission for Europe

Part 2

Good practices in country-led monitoring and evaluation systems

Building monitoring and evaluation systems to improve government performance.

Keith Mackay, Evaluation Capacity Development Coordinator, Independent Evaluation Group, the World Bank

Getting the logic right. How a strong theory of change supports programmes which work!

Jody Zall Kusek, Lead Coordinator of Global HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Group, the World Bank

Ray C. Rist, Advisor, the World Bank, and President, International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)

RealWorld Evaluation: conducting evaluations under budget, time, data and political constraints

Michael Bamberger, Independent consultant

Jim Rugh, Independent international program evaluator

Strengthening country data collection systems.

The role of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys

Marco Segone, Senior Regional Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation UNICEF CEE/CIS

George Sakvarelidze, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist UNICEF CEE/CIS

Daniel Vadnais, Data Dissemination Specialist UNICEF Headquarters

Strengthening country data dissemination systems.

Good practices in using DevInfo

Nicolas Pron, DevInfo Global Administrator, UNICEF Headquarters

Kris Oswalt, Executive Director, DevInfo Support Group

Marco Segone, Senior Regional Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF CEE/CIS

George Sakvarelidze, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, UNICEF CEE/CIS

Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems

Better evidence, better policies, better development results

Making data meaningful. Writing stories about numbers*.

UNECE, Statistical Dissemination and Communication, Conference of European Statisticians

Annexes

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[EQ] A conceptual framework for public health

A conceptual framework for public health: NICE's emerging approach

M.P. Kelly a, , , E. Stewart a, A. Morgan a, A. Killoran a, A. Fischer a, A. Threlfall b and J. Bonnefoy c

A Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, London, UK

B Greater Manchester Public Health Network, Manchester, UK

C Division of Healthy Public Policies, Ministry of Health, Santiago, Chile

Public Health, doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2008.10.031 . Public Health 123 (2009) e14–e20

December 2008 - The Royal Society for Public Health - . e-Supplement

Available online at:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B73H6-4V5NT10-3&_user=3824252&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000055308&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=3824252&md5=878b290fb9931fd8f676165b79e9abe4 .

“….This paper outlines the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) emerging conceptual framework for public health. This is based on the experience of the first 3 years of producing public health guidance at NICE (2005–2008).

The framework has been used to shape the revisions to NICE's public health process and methods manuals for use post 2009, and will inform the public health guidance which NICE will produce from April 2009. The framework is based on the precept that both individual and population patterns of disease have causal mechanisms.

These are analytically separate. Explanations of individual diseases involve the interaction between biological, social and related phenomena. Explanations of population patterns involve the same interactions, but also additional interactions between a range of other phenomena working in tandem. These are described.

The causal pathways therefore involve the social, economic and political determinants of health, as well as psychological and biological factors.
Four vectors of causation are identified:
- population,
- environmental,
- organizational and
- social.

The interaction between the vectors and human behaviour are outlined. The bridge between the wider determinants and individual health outcomes is integration of the life course and the life…”

Funding: NICE and the Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago Chile received funding to establish the Measurement and Evidence Knowledge Network which was one of nine knowledge networks established by WHO to support the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. This paper is not a statement of the views of WHO or the Commission.

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