PROGRAM Table of Contents Welcome 4 Ann K. Blanc, Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth 5 K. Srinath Reddy, Public Health Foundation of India 6 Acknowledgments Overview 8 Conference Information 10 India Habitat Centre Map 12 New Delhi Map (Hotels) 14 New Delhi Map (India Habitat Centre Area) Program 16 Conference Overview 18 Themes and Color Index 19 Monday, August 30 28 Monday at a Glance 29 Tuesday, August 31 40 Tuesday Posters 44 Tuesday at a Glance 46 Wednesday, September 1 56 Wednesday Posters 60 Wednesday at a Glance 62 Live Stream 63 Young Champions of Maternal Health 64 Opening and Plenary Speakers Endnotes 74 Index 76 In Memoriam 76 GMHC2010 Team 2 3 Welcome K. Srinath Welcome to the Global Maternal Health In the short life of the Maternal Health Conference 2010. We are truly delighted Task Force thus far, we have been struck that you are here to share your insights by the sheer volume of work underway in and experiences with maternal health the field. Spanning research, programs, Reddy colleagues from around the world. and advocacy, efforts abound among experts concentrating on maternal health In 2006, conversations began among some interventions and in allied health fields who On behalf of my colleagues at the Public Although there have been notable of the world’s maternal health leaders are working to address the myriad causes Health Foundation of India, welcome to advances towards providing safe about a need for a maternal health of maternal mortality and morbidity. Delhi and to the first ever Global Maternal motherhood to women in the recent past, hub, a place where experts working on Health Conference – GMHC2010. We are maternal morbidity and mortality rates maternal mortality and morbidity could The maternal health field is gaining new happy to be partnering with the Maternal continue to remain high across the globe come together in a neutral and enabling attention from donors, policy makers, Health Task Force at EngenderHealth on and efforts to adequately address maternal environment to increase coordination academics, young people, media, and convening this seminal gathering of the health remain fragmented. We trust GMHC around the evidence, programs, and influential think tanks, such as our valued world’s leading researchers, advocates 2010, bringing together more than 500 advocacy to improve maternal health partner and co-host of the conference, and program implementers working to participants from all over the globe working worldwide. the Public Health Foundation of India. improve maternal health around the on existing maternal health programs, will Invigorated attention is also coming from world. This conference is timely, urgent exchange ideas, brainstorm and develop The Maternal Health Task Force at donors such as the Bill & Melinda Gates and appropriately convening in India, the strategies to positively impact the maternal EngenderHealth and this conference are Foundation and the John D. and Catherine world’s second most populous country. mortality and morbidity rates and reduce the realization of those aspirations. We are T. MacArthur Foundation—–two foundations preventable deaths and disability. here to share data and impressions, to learn that have made the Maternal Health Task Momentum around the world toward about progress and new innovations, to Force possible. achieving Millennium Development PHFI is privileged to co-host this conference identify the knowledge gaps that still need Goal #5, Improve Maternal Health, is at this critical juncture when India is striving to be filled, and to reach consensus on The plenaries, sessions, and side events at accelerating. As a result of increased to provide quality maternal health care local, national, and global maternal health this conference, and the increased global advocacy and more robust research, and working towards achieving MDG5. strategies. attention from so many vantage points several countries have adopted policies The historical city of Delhi is proud to play bodes well for the world’s mothers. If this that increase skilled attendance at birth, host to this conference and cordially There are over 600 of us gathered at this momentum continues, our collective dream that ensure that emergency situations welcomes participants from all over the conference. We received more than 500 may indeed be realized: the eradication can be treated safely and with expertise, world. I hope this visit will help you capture abstracts, giving our steering committee of preventable maternal mortality and and that monitor the quality of maternal the essence of contemporary India and our scientific subcommittees an morbidity in our lifetimes. health care. In India, we are encouraged which draws on its ancient heritage and extraordinary challenge of selecting and by recent data suggesting that maternal celebrates a composite pan-Indian culture prioritizing presentations. Clearly, there is mortality is gradually decreasing. Indian even as it strides confidently into a future of high demand for a conference devoted women are staying in school longer accelerated development and enhanced exclusively to maternal health, which is a than they once did, delaying marriage global connectivity. I wish you all a strong and encouraging sign of a thriving and increasing their use of effective comfortable stay and fruitful deliberations field. contraceptives, and they increasingly want at the conference. smaller families. New schemes to provide Blanc is the Director of the skilled, quality care and emergency Maternal Health Task Force Ann K. obstetric care are showing positive results Reddy is the President of the at EngenderHealth. Her The total fertility rate dropped from 3.4 Public Health Foundation of profile and picture can be births per woman in 1993 to 2.7 in 2006. India. To read more about found on page 64. Blanc him, go to page 65. 4 5 Scientific Sub-Committee Acknowledgments Kaosar Afsana Dai Hozumi Garima Pathak BRAC PATH Indian Institute of Public Health Dinesh Agarwal Shireen Jejeebhoy Sunil Raj United Nations Population Population Council Indian Institute of Public Health The Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth and the Public Health Foundation of Fund India are grateful for support for this conference from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Mary Kamb V. Ramankutty and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Milind Babar Centers for Disease Control Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute Migration Advocacy & and Prevention for Medical Sciences & Research Group Technology M. E. Khan Linda Bartlett Population Council Krishna D. Rao Johns Hopkins University Public Health Foundation of Rashmi Kukreja India Sanghita Bhatacharyya United Kingdom Department Public Health Foundation of for International Development Mala Rao India Indian Institute of Public Health Marta Levitt-Dayal We would also like to thank the Steering Committee and the Scientific Sub-Committee for Ann Blanc Maternal and Child Health- Harshad Sanghvi their countless hours of hard work and valuable advice. Maternal Health Task Force at Sustainable Technical JHPIEGO EngenderHealth Assistance and Research Steering Committee Initiative Jay Satia Anjali Borhade Indian Institute of Public Health Koki Agarwal Marge Koblinsky Hamid Rushwan Indian Institute of Public Health Kuhu Maitra JHPIEGO John Snow Inc International Federation of Abt Associates, Inc Sakhtivel Selvaraj Gynecology and Obstetrics Veronique Filippi Public Health Foundation of London School of Hygiene and Dileep Mavalankar India José Belizan André B. Lalonde Tropical Medicine Indian Institute of Institute for Clinical The Society of Obstetricians Ben Schwartz Management Kabir Sheikh Effectiveness and Health and Gynecologists of CARE Shifalika Goenka Indian Institute of Public Health Policy Canada Indian Institute of Public Health Catharine McKaig Theresa Shaver JHPIEGO Bulbul Sood Aparajita Gogoi JHPIEGO Abbas Bhuiya Ana Langer White Ribbon Alliance CEDPA Subhadra Menon ICDDR,B Harvard School of Public Public Health Foundation of Cynthia Stanton Health Ann M. Starrs Ramesh Goud India Johns Hopkins University France Donnay Family Care International SOS Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Gwyneth Lewis Saiqa Mullick Amy Tsui Foundation UK Department of Health Catharine Taylor Wendy J. Graham Population Council Johns Hopkins University Immpact, University of PATH Aberdeen Poonam Muttreja Rob Ubaidur Alex Ezeh Florence Mirembe John D. and Catherine T. Population Council African Population and Uganda Government John Townsend Sara Gullo MacArthur Foundation Health Research Center Hospital Population Council Maternal Health Task Force at Beena Varghese EngenderHealth Priya Nanda Public Health Foundation of International Center for India Lynn P. Freedman Pius Okong Sanjay Gupte Research on Women Averting Maternal Death International Federation of 12 of the 21 members are The Federation of Obstetrics Rajni Ved and Disability Program Gynecology and Obstetrics speaking or moderating and Gynecology Societies of Rema Nanda National Health Systems India Pathfinder International Resource Centre Columbia University at GMHC2010! To find Friday Okonofua out who, check the index Monir Islam Ford Foundation Rehan Hafiz Sutapa B. Neogi Sanjay Zodpey which starts on page 74! Population Council Indian Institute of Public Health Indian Institute of Public Health World Health Organization Saroj Pachauri Indrajit Hazarika Rajmohan Panda Population Council Indian Institute of Public Health Public Health Foundation of India 6 7 Lunch Thought-board Lunch will