The 6th Operational Research Day took place in Brussels on 2 June and featured 14 presentations and 4 panel discussions. Take a look at the video for a selection of discussed topics and impressions of the day, or browse through the presentations below. Each presentation is also available in full for streaming in the video section.
Friday 2nd June 2017
From 9am to 17.30pm
In Brussels and livestreamed
PROGRAM & PRESENTATIONS
[To see the presentations, click on the red underlined title]
Master of Ceremonies – Armand Sprecher
9h00 OPENING REMARKS
Bertrand Draguez
09h15 SLOT 1
HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis: Emerging opportunities and new challenges!
Chairs: Nathan Ford and Marc Biot
- Gaps in the cascade of care in two high HIV prevalence settings in Zimbabwe and Malawi
Nolwenn Conan - “Throwing all we have”; combination of new drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Armenia, India and South Africa
Chinmay Laxmeshwar - “Even if she’s sick at home, she will pretend that everything is fine”; Reasons patients delay seeking treatment for HIV in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Emilie Venables - “Point-of-care tests can save lives”; screening patients with advanced HIV-disease in Conakry, Guinea
Ismael Adjaho
Each study has its drawing!
Click on the drawings to see them closer. ©Drawnalism/Alex Hughes
11h00 COFFEE BREAK
11h30 SLOT 2
A paradigm of today? Consequences of violence and trauma in humanitarian settings
Chairs: Amine Dahmane and Stefano Argenziano
- A crisis of protection and humane treatment: violence, physical trauma and deaths among migrants/refugees travelling along the Western Balkan corridor to Northern Europe
Jovana Arsenijević - Medical care, in Athens Greece, for migrants and refugees, who have suffered torture and other forms of ill-treatment
Manoli Kokkiniotis - Emergency department care for trauma patients in settings of active conflict versus urban violence: all of the same calibre?
Sophia Chérestal Woolley - Saving life and limb: limb salvage using external fixation, a multi-centre review of orthopaedic surgical activities in Médecins Sans Frontières
Marie-Jeanne Bertol
Each study has its drawing!
Click on the drawings to see them closer. ©Drawnalism/Alex Hughes
13h00 LUNCH
14h00 SLOT 3
Influencing health care down-stream – how to steer change?
Chairs: Johan von Schreeb and Catherine Van Overloop
- Efficacy and effectiveness of an rVSV-vectored vaccine in preventing Ebola virus disease: final results from the Guinea ring vaccination, open-label, cluster-randomised trial (Ebola Ça Suffit!)
Rebecca Grais - Unregulated usage of labour-inducing medication in a region of Pakistan with poor drug regulatory control: characteristics and risk patterns
Séverine Caluwaerts - Borehole diagnosis and rehabilitation as alternative to new borehole drilling – the Médecins Sans Frontières approach in rural Niger
Jean-Yves Nuttinck - Late breaker: Outbreak of multi-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a MSF-supported maternity in Central African Republic
Julita Gil
Each study has its drawing!
Click on the drawings to see them closer. ©Drawnalism/Alex Hughes
15h30 TEA/COFFEE
15h50 SLOT 4
Panel discussion: Qualitative research and the Community: what role in MSF Operations?
Chairs: Leen Verhenne and Tom Ellman
- “Tell it to my mother-in-law” women‘s sexual and reproductive health, their perception of and access to maternal health care services in Khost province, Afghanistan
Doris Burtscher -
From sexual violence to sexuality in violent environment: the case of Rustenburg (South Africa)
Jean-François Véran
Discussion
Panel: Bart Janssens, Tom Ellman, Leen Verhenne, Doris Burtscher, Jean-François Véran, Emilie Venables
Each study has its drawing!
Click on the drawings to see them closer. ©Drawnalism/Alex Hughes
17h20 CLOSING REMARKS
Sebastian Spencer
