Hopkins All-University Seminar On Africa (HAUSA) 
 
Friday, April 27, 2007
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Rooms 9 & 10, East Baltimore campus
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Cost: FREE

Join the Center for Global Health for this Faces of Africa event, featuring 27 faculty and students from all schools at Hopkins, as they present their work in Africa and recount both the challenges and successes of their research. Topics vary widely, from culture, religion and microfinance, to health disparities, maternal health, and the fights against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.

Below is the schedule of events for the day. Please note that the order of speakers may vary. Keep checking back here for updates.
Last updated: 4/17/07

9:00 a.m.  Welcome to HAUSA

Martha Hill (Nursing, Dean)
Welcome and introduction to the day

Sosena Kebede (Public Health, Student)
On being of African origin
 
9:30 a.m.  Oral Presentation Session: African Culture

Anne Outwater (Nursing, student)
Philosophy/religious peace (Tanzania)

Peter Lewis (SAIS, Faculty)
Identity & democracy (Nigeria)    

Pier Larson (Arts and Sciences, Faculty)
Malagasy Letters

Katherine Balk (Nursing, Student)
Knowledge of genetics

Diana Scorpio (Medicine, Faculty)
Habitat Fragmentation: impact of disease

Julia Hindmarsh (Nursing, Faculty)
Microfinance & empowerment

Sara Holtz (Public Health, Student)
Socioeconomic differentials and clustering of cesareans

William Otundo (SAIS, Fellow)
Health nations: rhetoric or reality?

11:30 a.m.  30 minute break
Lunch provided on first-come-first-served basis

12:00 p.m.  Panel Discussion: The intersection of socio-political conflict and health
Chris Beyrer (Public Health, Faculty)
Jennifer Wagman (Public Health, Staff)
Ting-Hway Wong (Public Health, Student)

1:15 p.m.  15 minute break

1:30 p.m.  Oral Presentation Session: Health interventions/treatments

Charles Katende (JHPIEGO, Staff)
Human Resources

Colletta Richards (Medicine, Staff)
Anesthesia/Post-op (Liberia)

Amy Kleine (JHPIEGO, Staff)
Cervical cancer screening

Peter Johnson (JHPIEGO, Staff)
Circumcision

Andrea DeLuca (Medicine, Student)
TB interventions

Susan Dorman (Medicine, Faculty)
XDR-TB

Li Liu (Public Health, Student)
HIV testing and counseling (Kenya)

Barb Koloshuk (Public Health, Student)
HIV risk behaviors among youth (Uganda)

Achamyelesh Debela (Public Health, Student) DeBeers scholar
HIV in women and vulnerable children

Victoria Chou (Public Health, Student)
Cost of adverse events in clinical trials (HIV in particular)

Stuart Merkel (JHPIEGO, Staff)
Reproductive health in urban slums

Sharon Kibwana (JHPIEGO, Staff)
Midwifery training

Lynn Huynh (Public Health, student)
Presentation of potential HIV projects in South Africa

4:45 p.m.  Conclusion