Welcome
The South African Child Health Priorities Association invites you to attend the ninth PRIORITIES IN CHILD HEALTH conference to be held at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Parktown, Johannesburg from 29 November – 1 December 2018.
The theme for the meeting is “Survive, Thrive, Transform? Let’s get real!”
Attendance at the conference is encouraged by doctors, nurses and other practitioners within the health service; academics; national, provincial and local health department staff; international and national child health related organisation representatives; non-governmental organisation representatives and individual child health practitioners and advocates.
The forthcoming conference will focus on transforming the child health agenda in South Africa and the actions and activities required to do this. The programme will include sessions on:
- Defining the “Transform” agenda
- Improving hospital care for children
- Re-envisaging the role of district clinical specialist teams
- Bringing community health workers to the fore
- Delivering effective primary health care services for children
The private sector
- Immunisation
- The education and training of future child health practitioners in South Africa
- Advancing child health policies and programmes through a rights based approach
- Child Health advocacy and leadership
- Research presentations
- Quality Improvement projects
The South African Child Health Priorities Association will host the conference, which will bring together expert South African and international speakers. The conference has been made possible by support from UNICEF.
Conference Organising Committee
National:Haroon Saloojee (convener), Wiedaad Slemming, Yin Yin Aung, Elizabeth Maseti, Neil McKerrow, Maria Mokwena, Mary Morgan, Mukondeleli Muavha, Jenny Nash, Mariame Sylla, Chantell Witten,
Local committee:Wiedaad Slemming, Juliet Nyasulu, Shirley Cherane
Conference Programme
The conference programme will include invited speakers (plenary sessions), interactive panel discussions (round tables) and original research and quality improvement project presentations.
The aim is to interrogate issues in detail through panel discussions and audience participation rather than didactic (formal) presentations.
The conference programme will feature leading South African experts in child and public health.
The provisional programme is subject to change and details of speakers will be available from the Priorities in Child Health website as the conference approaches.
Child Health Priorities Conference 2018 – Day 1
| Day 1: Thursday, 29 November 2018 | ||
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| 08.00 - 10.00 | Registration | |
| 10.00 - 10.15 | Opening and Welcome | |
| 10.15 - 11.00 | Keynote Address: "Transform - What does it mean?" | Facilitator: Dr Mariame Sylla (UNICEF) Prof Anthony Costello (via Skype) Former Director, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organisation Dr Yogan Pillay Deputy Director General: Strategic Programmes, Mother and Child Health, HIV and TB, National Department of Health |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Improving quality within dysfunctional systems Improving hospital care for children What are key barriers to good hospital care for children? What examples of successful interventions are there and what enabled these to happen? Is setting norms and standards effective and are they achievable? Can an accreditation programme improve service delivery? What are priority interventions for improving hospital care for neonates, infants and children? | Facilitator: Prof Haroon Saloojee Prof Minette Coetzee Head: Child Nurse Practice Development Initiative, University of Cape Town Dr Vanessa Comley Paediatrician: Stanger Hospital, Kwa-Zulu Natal Dr Anne Robertson Principal paediatrician, Limpopo Health Department Prof Anthony Westwood Head: General Paediatrics, Metro West Geographical Service area, Department of Health, Western Cape |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Re-directing primary health care re-engineering Re-envisaging the role of district clinical specialist teams (DCSTs) Are DCSTs a success story? What has prevented DCSTs reaching optimal functionality? What conceptual or structural changes are required to optimise DCST performance? What is the future of DCSTs? | Facilitator: Prof Lesley Bamford Prof Ute Feucht Paediatrician: District Clinical Specialist Team, Tshwane District, Gauteng Dr Shuaib Kachauli Paediatric consultant, National Department of Health Dr Carol Marshall (via Skype) Specialist, National Department of Health Dr Romola Naidoo Paediatrician: District Clinical Specialist Team, Ugu District, KwaZulu Natal Dr Jenny Nash Family Practitioner: District Clinical Specialist Team, Amathole District, Eastern Cape |
| Comfort Break | ||
| 15:15-16:45 | Re-directing primary health care re-engineering Community health workers to the fore What is the state of ward-based outreach teams in the country? How is the maternal and child component of care being delivered? What examples of successful WBOTs performance are there? What enabled these to happen? How can ward based outreach teams deliver on their promise for maternal and child health care? | Facilitator: Dr Jenny Nash Ms Jeannette Hunter Deputy Director General for Primary Health Care, National Department of Health Prof Jane Goudge Director, Centre for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand Dr Cecilie Jensen Clinical Manager, Zoe-Life Mr Hlologelo Malatji SARCHi PhD Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand Ms Faith Mambulu PhD Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand |
| Day 2: Friday, 30th November 2018 | ||
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| 7:30- 8:00 | Registration | |
| 08:00-09:30 | Re-directing primary health care re-engineering Delivering effective primary health care services for children What do we know about the delivery of primary care services to children in South Africa? How does the health system impact on IMCI delivery? Is the Ideal Clinic initiative relevant to paediatrics and child health? Is a single prescribed model of care delivery (such as IMCI) appropriate? What is the future of IMCI in SA? How can our current models of primary care delivery be enhanced? | Facilitator: Prof Anthony Westwood Prof Lesley Bamford Specialist: Child and Youth Health, National Department of Health Dr Christiane Horwood Researcher, Centre for Rural Health, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Dr Sandy Picken PACK Child, Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Dr Himani Pandya Researcher, Division of Community Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand Dr Deirdre Pansegrouw Paediatrician: District Clinical Specialist Team, ILembe district, Kwa-Zulu Natal Prof Haroon Saloojee Head: Division of Community Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 09h30-11h00 | Re-directing primary health care re-engineering Private sector: who is accountable? What is the private sector’s role in universal health coverage? Can the private sector be held accountable for protecting children’s health? What relevance do the findings of the Competition Commission market inquiry into the private healthcare sector have for children? What lessons have been learned from the sugary drinks tax effort, and what are its implications for other industries? Who is responsible for holding the private sector to account, and what are the mechanisms for doing so? | Facilitator: Dr Atiya Mosam Prof Sharon Fonn Independent expert, Competition Commission Market Inquiry into the Private Healthcare Sector Dr Errol Gottlich Paediatric Nephrologist in Private Practice; Manager, Discovery Health KidneyCare Programme Dr Simon Strachan Paediatrician and past chair of Paediatric Management Group Ms Aviva Tugendhaft Deputy director, PRICELESS SA |
| 11:00-11:30 | Comfort Break | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Improving quality within dysfunctional systems Immunisation in focus The SA Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) – current status, new developments and future directions. Improving SA vaccine coverage – trends and barriers. Mandatory vaccination – possible in South Africa? Legal and ethical barriers, and how can they be overcome? | Facilitator: Dr Mary Morgan Dr Nonhlanhla Dlamini Chief Director: Child and Youth Health, National Department of Health Dr Shuaib Kachauli Consultant: National Department of Health Dr Wiedaad Slemming Senior lecturer, Division of Community Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand Ms Prinslean Mahery Lecturer, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 13:00-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:00 | SA Child Health Priorities Association Annual General Meeting | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Strengthening human resources: The education and training of future child health practitioners in South Africa What are the current gaps/issues with health professional education in relation to child health? How can undergraduate and postgraduate training programmes be modified to better meet children’s needs? Is the fix a more comprehensive interdisciplinary paediatric and child health focus or discipline specific? Is the fix a core child health curriculum in every programme? What/who will it take to move this agenda? | Facilitator: Prof Lionel Green-Thompson Dr Sadna Balton Head: Speech Therapy and Audiology, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto Prof Minette Coetzee Head: Child Nurse Practice Development Initiative, University of Cape Town Prof Mphelekedzeni Mulaudzi Head, Paediatrics and Child Health, Charlotte Maxexe Academic Hospital, Johannesburg Prof Laetitia Rispel DST/ NRF SARChI Chair, Research on the Health Workforce for Equity and Quality, University of the Witwatersrand Ms Chantell Witten Senior Lecturer, MSc Nutrition Management, North West University |
| 15:30-17:00 | Research presentations A qualitative longitudinal study of infant feeding practices and decision making among HIV positive and negative women in rural and peri-urban areas of KZN. Christine Horwood Translating policy to practice: health workers and breastfeeding promotion in Soweto. Sara Nieuwoudt Conflict of interest and sponsorship by the formula milk industry. Lori Lake Acceptability and feasibility of an electronic decision making tool to support implementation of IMCI in primary health care facilities in KZN. Cecile Jensen Caregivers’ perceptions of primary healthcare and community healthcare workers’ services in Thabo Mofutsanyane and Capricorn District. Rosalyn Ford Lean Thinking as a framework for quality improvement: the story of the transformation of Malamulele Onward Carer-2-Carer CP training programme. Gillian Saloojee Learning from advanced paediatric nurse trainee experiences in DCSTs in three provinces – strengthened clinical competencies and clinical governance. Minette Coetzee South African intern career intentions following Paediatrics in the public sector. Kimesh Naidoo | Facilitators: Ms Elizabeth Maseti and Dr Juliet Nyasulu |
| 19:00 | Speakers’ dinner (by invitation) | |
| Child Health Priorities Conference 2018 – Day 3 | ||
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| 07:30-8:00 | Registration | |
| 08:00-09:30 | Making a difference Advancing child health policies and programmes through advocacy Sharing the experience of health practitioners, academic units, non-profit organisations and civil society advocacy groups in advancing child health. What lessons have we learned from previous efforts? What more can we do and how should it be done? | Facilitator: Dr Wiedaad Slemming Dr Sadna Balton Head: Speech Therapy and Audiology, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto Ms Patricia Martin Director, Advocacy Aid and Lead: Early development working group, South African Civil Society for Women's, Adolescents' and Children's Health (SACSoWACH) Dr Mandy Wessels Paediatrician, Empangeni Hospital, Kwa-Zulu Natal Ms Chantell Witten Senior Lecturer, MSc Nutrition Management, North West University |
| 09:30-11:00 | Making a difference Child Health advocacy and leadership What successes have we had in South Africa? What more should we be doing to advocate for children’s health and wellbeing? What role/responsibility is there for ordinary child health practitioners to get involved in advocacy? How best can political commitment be catalysed? Who provides leadership? | Facilitator: Prof Haroon Saloojee Mr Mark Heywood Executive Director, Section 27 Ms Stasha Jordan Co-chair, South African Civil Society for Women's, Adolescents' and Children's Health (SACSoWACH) Prof David Sanders Founder, People’s Health Movement - South Africa; Co-Chair, People’s Health Movement - Global. Ms Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga Director, Rural Health Advocacy Project |
| 11:00-11:30 | Tea | |
| 11:30-12:45 | Conference actions and resolutions | Facilitator: Prof Haroon Saloojee |
| 12:45-13:00 | Closure | Dr Jenny Nash Chair, South African Child Health Priorities Association |
Research (Oral presentation)
The conference programme provides the opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their recent work in the form of oral presentations.
Abstracts should be sent to the organisers by Wednesday, 31 October 2018.
Authors will be notified by e-mail by the 7 November 2018 whether or not their abstract has been accepted.
Delegates presenting oral presentations will be exempted from registration fees on condition that their abstract has been accepted by the Organising Committee.
Poster presentations are NOT being solicited.
Quality Improvement project presentation
As an innovation, the conference programme provides the opportunity for practitioners to present the results of any recent quality improvement work.
Abstracts should be sent to the organisers by Wednesday, 31 October 2018.
Authors will be notified by e-mail by the 7 November 2018 whether or not their abstract has been accepted.
Delegates presenting quality improvement projects will be exempted from registration fees on condition that their abstract has been accepted by the Organising Committee.
CPD points
South African registered health professionals will be eligible for CPD points.
Bursaries
Regrettably, no scholarships or bursaries are available.