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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

WORKSHOP ON THE CONTINUING EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Committee on Population
U.S. National Academy of Sciences

and

Medical Research Council/University of the Witwatersrand (MRC/Wits) Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)

October 20–22, 2011

Location: Wits Professional Development Hub (PDH)
University of the Witwatersrand

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20

OPEN SESSION

 
2:30 P.M.   WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

Barney Cohen
Director, Committee on Population
U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Stephen Tollman
University of the Witwatersrand

Barthélémy Kuate Defo, University of Montreal
Chair, Panel on the Continuing Epidemiological Transition in sub-Saharan Africa
 
2:50 P.M.   SPONSOR PERSPECTIVE

Richard Suzman
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13533.
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    Director, Division of Behavioral and Social Research
U.S. National Institute on Aging
 
3:00 P.M.   SESSION 1: THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Chair: Barney Cohen, U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Presenter: (20 minutes) Barthélémy Kuate Defo, University of Montreal

Discussants: (10 minutes each)
Peter Byass, Umeå University, Sweden
Hoosen Coovadia, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Q&A and General Discussion
 
4:00 P.M.   SESSION 2: MORTALITY AND CAUSES OF DEATH IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PATTERNS, TRENDS, AND PROSPECTS

Chair: Barthélémy Kuate Defo, University of Montreal

Presenter: (20 minutes) Gilles Pison, Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED)
Paper title: Successes and Failures in the Fight Against Child
Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Senegal, a Country
with Low AIDS prevalence.

Discussants: (10 minutes each)
Eric Udjo, University of South Africa
Stephen Tollman, University of the Witwatersrand

Q&A and General Discussion
 
7:00 P.M.   WORKING DINNER
 
8:00 P.M.   ADJOURN

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

OPEN SESSION

 
8:30 A.M.   SESSION 3: RISK FACTOR TRANSITIONS IN AFRICA: EXPOSURES AND COMPARATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT

Chair: Ayaga Bawah, Columbia University
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13533.
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    Presenter: (20 minutes) Majid Ezzati, Imperial College, London

Discussants: (10 minutes each)
Julie Knoll Rajaratnam, University of Washington
Somnath Chatterji, World Health Organization

Q&A and General Discussion
 
9:30 A.M.   SESSION 4: THE ROLE OF MIGRATION IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITION IN AFRICA

Chair: Michael White, Brown University

Presenter: (20 minutes) Mark Collinson, University of the Witwatersrand
Paper title: Examining Migration as a Factor Contributing to the Epidemiological Transition, in the Agincourt Sub-District of Northeast South Africa.

Discussant: (10 minutes) Ayaga Bawah, Columbia University

Q&A and General Discussion
10:30 A.M.   BREAK
 
11:00 A.M.   SESSION 5: ECONOMICS OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITION

Chair: Stephen Tollman, University of the Witwatersrand

Presenter: (20 minutes) Riku Elovainio, World Health Organization
Paper title: Health Financing Challenges in Low-and Middle-
Income Countries in the Context of the Ongoing Epidemiological Transition.

Discussants: (10 minutes each)
Barthélémy Kuate Defo, University of Montreal
Karen Hofman, University of the Witwatersrand

Q&A and General Discussion
 
12:00 P.M.   SESSION 6: MEASURING HEALTH: PRIORITIES FOR DATA COLLECTION, VALIDATION, AND USE IN RESOURCE-POOR SETTINGS
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13533.
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    Chair: Julie Knoll Rajaratnam, University of Washington

Presenter: (20 minutes) Peter Byass, Umeå University, Sweden
Paper title: Understanding Transitions in African Health by Managing Long-Term Transitions in African Health Data.

Discussants: (10 minutes each)
Alan Lopez, Queensland University
Thomas Rehle, Human Sciences Research Council

Q&A and General Discussion
1:00 P.M.   LUNCH
 
2:00 P.M.   SESSION 7: THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITION IN AFRICA: ARE THERE LESSONS FROM ASIA?

Chair: Somnath Chatterji, World Health Organization

Presenter: (20 minutes) Stephen Tollman, University of the Witwatersrand
Paper title: The Continuing Epidemiological Transition: Lessons from Africa and Asia.
Discussant: (10 minutes) Moffat Nyirenda, College of Medicine/University of Malawi

Q&A and General Discussion
3:00 P.M.   BREAK
 
3:30 P.M.   SESSION 8: ROUNDTABLE ON DATA NEEDS AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

Chair: Alan Lopez, Queensland University

Q&A and General Discussion
 
4:30 P.M.   WRAP-UP/ POINTS TO BE INCORPORATED IN THE FINAL REPORT

Barthélémy Kuate Defo, University of Montreal
 
5:00 P.M.   ADJOURN
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13533.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

CLOSED SESSION (Panel Members Only)

 
8:00 A.M.   CLOSED MEETING
 
3:30 P.M.   END OF MEETING
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Among the poorest and least developed regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa has long faced a heavy burden of disease, with malaria, tuberculosis, and, more recently, HIV being among the most prominent contributors to that burden. Yet in most parts of Africa-and especially in those areas with the greatest health care needs-the data available to health planners to better understand and address these problems are extremely limited. The vast majority of Africans are born and will die without being recorded in any document or spearing in official statistics. With few exceptions, African countries have no civil registration systems in place and hence are unable to continuously generate vital statistics or to provide systematic information on patterns of cause of death, relying instead on periodic household-level surveys or intense and continuous monitoring of small demographic surveillance sites to provide a partial epidemiological and demographic profile of the population.

In 1991 the Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences organized a workshop on the epidemiological transition in developing countries. The workshop brought together medical experts, epidemiologists, demographers, and other social scientists involved in research on the epidemiological transition in developing countries to discuss the nature of the ongoing transition, identify the most important contributors to the overall burden of disease, and discuss how such information could be used to assist policy makers in those countries to establish priorities with respect to the prevention and management of the main causes of ill health.

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from a workshop convened in October 2011 that featured invited speakers on the topic of epidemiological transition in sub-Saharan Africa. The workshop was organized by a National Research Council panel of experts in various aspects of the study of epidemiological transition and of sub-Saharan data sources. The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa serves as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop in October 2011.

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