Webinar series

Date: February 12
Time: 10:30-12:00 CET
Title: "Implementation research to promote treatment of pneumonia in under-five children in a North Indian district”.
Presenter: Barsha G. Pathak 

Date: January 08 
Time: 12:00-13:30 CET
Title: Implementation Research- What? Why? How?
Presenter: Sarmila Mazumder

Date: December 11
Time: 13:00-14:00
Tentative title: Challenging implications of the politicization of maternal death reporting:  Case studies from Tanzania and Ethiopia
Presenter: Astrid Blystad and Karen Marie Moland

Date: November 13 (Cancelled. Will be rescheduled for spring 2025)
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: TBA
Presenter: Sarmila Mazumder

Date: October 2
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: Economic support, comprehensive sexuality education and community dialogue for girls' empowerment in Zambia
Presenter: Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy, Hanne Keyser Hegdahl and Mweetwa Mudenda

Date: September 11
Time: 12:30-14:00
Titles: Single Cleansing of The Umbilical Cord Stump with Chlorhexidine to Prevent Newborn Infections: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda,
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Exposure and Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Cohort Study
 Presenters: Victoria Nankabirwa and Halvor Sommerfelt

Date: August 14
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:  Impact of an integrated intervention package during preconception, pregnancy, and early childhood on biomarkers of infant growth in the first 6 months of life: A sub study in WINGS
Presenter: Ranadip Chowdhury

Date: June 19
Time: 13:00-14:30
Title: Labour augmentation with oxytocin in low- and lower-middle-income countries   
Presenter: Monica Lauridsen Kujabi

Date: May 15 (Cancelled. Is rescheduled for fall 2024)
Time: 12:30-14:00
Tentative title: MATRISET   
Presenter: Astrid Blystad and Karen Marie Moland

Date: April 17 (Cancelled. Is rescheduled for fall 2024)
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: TBA       
Presenter: Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy 

Date: March 20
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: Labour progression in urban resource-constrained maternity units - An appeal for change     
Presenter: Monica Lauridsen Kujabi

Date: December 13
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: 'Zinc as adjunct treatment for clinical severe infection in young infants​​​​​'​
Presenter: Dr. Nitya Wadhwa 

Date: August 16
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: "Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve the Duration of  Kangaroo Mother Care in the Facility, South India".
Presenter: Dr. Sathya Jeganathan

Date: April 12
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: : Assumptions and estimation of complier-average causal effect in RCTs
Presenter: Hugo Cogo Moreira

Date: March 08
Time: CANCELLED, will be rescheduled.
Title: Labour augmentation with oxytocin in low- and lower-middle-income countries
Presenter: Monica Lauridsen Kujabi

Date: February 22
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: Effects of Result-based Financing on maternal, neonatal and child health care services in Tanzania.
(Eskindir Loha, Ottar Mæstad, Vincent Somville, Peter Binyaruka, Jo Borghi)
Presenter: Eskindir Loha

Date: January 11
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: What are the consequences of vitamin B12 deficiency in early life, what do we know, what are the remaining research questions, and how should we address these? 
- and how has CISMAC contributed to generating the evidence
Presenter: Tor Strand

Date: December 14
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: "Impact of a package of health, nutrition, psychosocial support, and WaSH interventions delivered during preconception, pregnancy, and early childhood periods on birth outcomes and on linear growth at 24 months of age: factorial, individually randomised controlled trial"
Presenters: Dr. Sunita Taneja and Dr. Ranadip Chowdhury. 

Date: November 9
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: How to deal with lack of adherence in Randomized Controlled trial: new alternatives to Intention-to-treat applied to trials in education
Presenters: Hugo Cogo-Moreira

Date: October 12
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: Effect of kangaroo mother care initiated in community settings on financial risk protection of low-income households: A randomized controlled trial
Presenters: Tarun Choudhary

Date: September 28
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: Effect of community-initiated kangaroo mother care on breastfeeding performance in low birthweight infants: A randomized clinical trial
Presenter: Bireshwar Sinha

Date: March 30.
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
         Chapter 12 (Using Regression Models in Epidemiologic Analysis)
Presenter: Monica Kujabi

Date: March 16.
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
         Chapter 10 (Controlling Confounding by Stratifying Data)
Presenter: Farhan Yusuf

Date: March 2.
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
         Chapter 9 (Analyzing Simple Epidemiologic Data)
Presenter: Ravi Upadhyay and Ranadip Chowdhury

Date: Feb 16.
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
         Chapter 8 (Random Error and the Role of Statistics)
Presenter: Mahima Venkateswaran

Date: Feb 2.
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
         Chapter 7 (Dealing with Biases)
Presenter: Eleni Zoumpoulia Papadopoulou

Date: Jan 19
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
         Chapter 5 (Types of Epidemiologic Studies)
Presenter: Catherine Schwinger

Date: Jan 5
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
         Chapter 3 (recap) and Chapter 11 (Measuring Interactions)
Presenters: Tarun Choudhary and Bireshwar Sinha

1) 11 August
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: "How can India and Tanzania most efficiently reduce neonatal mortality to 12 per 1000 live births or less"
Presenter: Usha Dingra

2) 8 September
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: "Effect of ciKMC on fecal biomarkers of gut function in low birthweight infants"
Presenter: Bireshwar Sinha

3) 13 October
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: Can benefits of early interventions sustain during primary grades? Findings from a follow-up evaluation of a rural, disadvantaged cohort in Pakistan
Presenter: Muneera Abdul Rasheed

4) 10 November
Time: 12:30-13:20
Title: Brief information about the two back-to-back courses in April 2022
         Discussion of Chapter 1 and the first part of Chapter 3 of Professor Kenneth J. Rothman’s book “Epidemiology – an introduction”, video content and Prof. Rothman’s paper from 1976.
Presenters: Professor Halvor Sommerfelt

5) 24 November
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
         Recap of webinar Nov 10 + Chapters 1, 2 and 3
Presenter: Professor Halvor Sommerfelt

6)  8 December
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
         Chapter 4 (Measuring Disease Occurrence and Causal Effects)
Presenter: Professor Halvor Sommerfelt

7) 22 December
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: CISMAC Webinar series: Preparing for the CISMAC/BCEPS Epidemiology course with Ken Rothman
         Prevalence, Time-to-event analysis, Chapter 4: Causal effectsDate:
Presenters: Halvor Sommerfelt with Eleni Zoumpoulia Papadopoulou, Josephine Tumuhamye and David Mukunya

1) 03 February
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: A digital health registry with clinical decision support for improving quality of antenatal care in Palestine (eRegQual): a cluster-randomized controlled trial
Presenter: Mahima Venkateswaran

2) 10 March
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:“Effect of Community-Initiated Kangaroo Mother Care on catastrophic out of pocket expenditure and impoverishment: An Equity Randomized Controlled Trial”
Presenter:Tarun Choudhary

3) 14 April
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title:“The importance and challenges of long-term follow-up in studies on neurodevelopment. Experiences from Nepal.”
Presenters:The CISMAC-B12 Nepal team. 

4) 19 May
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: Catch up growth in childhood and association with neurodevelopment
Presenters: Ravi Upadhyay

5) 09 June
Time: 12:30-14:00
Title: “The effectiveness of a girls´empowerment programme on early childbearing and grade 9 completion in rural Zambia: A cluster randomized trial”.
Presenter: Ingvild Sandøy

1) 09 September
Time: 13:30-15:00 CET         
Title: PART 1, Epidemiologic considerations around a case-control study of oxytocin (mis?)use and baby survival.
Presenter: Halvor Sommerfelt and Sanjana Mohan

2) 23 September
Time: 14:00-15:30 CET         
Title: PART 2, Epidemiologic considerations around a case-control study of oxytocin (mis?)use and baby survival.
Presenter: Halvor Sommerfelt

3) 07 October
Time: 12:30-14:00 CET         
Tentative title: “Effects of economic support and community dialogue on adolescent sexual behavior: findings from the RISE trial”
Presenter: Hanne Keyser Hegdahl

4) 21 October
Time: 12:30-14:00     
Title: PART 3, Epidemiologic considerations (around a case-control study of oxytocin (mis?)use and baby survival.)
Presenter: Halvor Sommerfelt, Bireshwar Sinha, Hanne Keyser Hegdahl.

5) 18 November
Time: 12:30-14:00 CET         
Title: Health Equity Impact of Community Initiated Kangaroo Mother Care (ciKMC)
Presenter: Tarun Shankar Choudhary and Kjell Arne Johansson

6) 02 December
Time: 12:30-14:00 CET         
Title: DSMBs – when and why they are needed, their organization and operation.
Presenter: Jose Martines with experience-sharing inputs from Simon Cousens of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Rajiv Bahl of WHO.

1) 13 February
This webinar will be a live streaming of a PhD defense
Time: 09:15 CET and 11.15 CET         
Topic:       
Trial lecture: “Strengths and challenges of complex community based interventions for maternal newborn and child health”. 
PhD Defense: “Newborn care practices in Northern Uganda: Studies on breastfeeding, decision-making and hypothermia”
Presenter: David Mukunya

2) 03 March 
This webinar will be a live streaming of a PhD defense
Time: 09:15 CET and 11.15 CET 
Topic:       
Trial lecture: “Involving future users in the design of health apps: methodologies and methods”
PhD Defense: “Designing usable mobile forms for collection of health data in Uganda”
Presenter: Alice Mugisha

3) 27 March 
This webinar will be a live streaming of a PhD defense
Time: 09:15 CET and 11.15 CET         
Topic:       
Trial lecture: "Global newborn mortality: What are the game changers?"
PhD Defense: "No cry at birth Neonatal - resuscitation in low-resource settings: role of the laryngeal mask airway"
Presenter: Nicolas Pejovic 

4) 06 May
Time: 12:30 CET         
Topic: “Building multivariable models for epidemiological analyses”
Presenter: David Mukunya

5) 03 June 
Time: 12:30 CET       
Topic: "Multivariable regression to analyze data from a Randomized controlled trial (RCT) of community-initiated Kangaroo Mother Care and postartum depression: Why and when to adjust for covariates in an RCT?"
Presenter: Bireshwar Sinha

1) 3 October,
Time:12:00-13:30 CET         
Topic: “From paperwork to practice – Rural Health bureaucrats and the Zambian abortion Policy”        
Presenter: Marte Haaland

2) 5 November
Time:(tentative) Trial Lecture:09:15 CET, PhD Defence 11:15 CET  
This webinar will be a live streaming of the PhD defense by CISMAC PhD candidate,  Mahima Venkateswaran
Title of PhD: “Attributes and consequences of health information systems data for antenatal care. Health status, health system performance and policy”
Title of trial lecture:“Enabling environment for digital health: supporting sustainability, policy decisions and clinical decision making”

3) 2 December    
Time:(tentative) 12:00-13:30 CET
Tentative title: “Presentation based on the NeoSupra Trial”
Lead: Thorkild Tylleskär

1) 9^th January
Topic: Fetal growth variation and global consequences
Invited speaker: Professor Torvid Kiserud, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen

2) 6^th February
Kjersti Mørkrid Blom-Bakke, Norwegian Institute of Public Health:
"The use of eRegistry in Palestine to implement the 2013 WHO Gestational Diabetes mellitus criteria"
Ingrid Friberg, Norwegian Institute of Public Health:
"The use of data from eRegistries to inform decision: the delivery care model"

3) 6^th March
Topic: Instrumental Variable Analysis: Measuring the "true" effect when trial intervention is not delivered with optimal fidelity. Relevance for CISMAC studies.
Lead: Øystein Ariansen Haaland

4) 3^rd April - no webinar

5) 16^th May (NB: date!)
Topic: Do fathers’ environment before conception matter for the health of his future offspring? Identifying age windows with higher susceptibility to environmental exposures
Lead: Cecilie Svanes

7)       5^th September
Topic: Training research staff for community-based early childhood development studies: Experience from rural Pakistan
Lead: Muneera Rasheed

8)      3^rd October
Topic: The importance and challenges of achieving high sensitivity and specificity in outcome assessment in randomized controlled trials.
Leads: Ranadeep Chowdhury, Catherine Schwinger, Halvor Sommerfelt

9)      7^th November
PhD project presentation: Mahima Venkateswaran, Norwegian Public Health Institute:
Antenatal care metrics – analyses of data from an electronic registry for maternal and newborn health.

PhD project presentation: David Mukunya
Breastfeeding initiation and morbidity risk in Lira district, Northern Uganda

10)    21^th November (NB! Change in time: 13:00-14:00)
PhD project presentation: Susanna Myrnerts Höök and Nicolas Pejovic:
Enhancing performance during neonatal resuscitation: the NeoSupra trial and ancillary studies

11) 5^th December
PhD project presentation: Ravi Upadhyay, Society for Applied Studies, India:
Effect of high quality and increased quantity of protein to infants aged 6 to 12 months on their neurodevelopmental outcomes at 24 months of age.

1)      17th January
Topic: High loss to follow up in RCTs – what can go wrong and how to minimize 
Lead: Halvor Sommerfelt. Contributors: Sarmila Mazumder, Victoria Nankabirwa, Bireshwar Sinha, Halvor Sommerfelt

 2)      7^th February
Topic: "Analysis of growth in young children - the LMS method and the SITAR growth model." 
Invited speaker: Professor Tim Cole, University College of London.

3)      7^th March
PhD project presentation: Bireshwar Sinha, SAS-India: "Effect of community initiated kangaroo mother care in low birth weight infants on infant breast milk intake, gut inflammation, maternal depressive symptoms and stress."

4)      4^th April
Topic: "How to secure high fidelity and quality of the delivery of the intervention(s) in RCTs"
Lead: Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy. There will be contributions from different CISMAC studies.

5)      2^nd May
Topic: Statistical power in RCTs Why does CISMAC insist on so high statistical power? Relevance for Getting Research into Policy and Practice (GRIPP)
Leads: Halvor Sommerfelt and José C. Martines.

6)      6^th June
PhD project presentation: Olive Jackie Namugga, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Uganda:
Measuring body temperature in young infants to identify clinical severe infection; axillary and infrared tympanic membrane temperature measurements. 

PhD project presentation: Josephine Tumuhamye, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Uganda: 
Colonization of the birth canal and infections in newborns in Uganda: Etiology, antibiotic resistance of potential pathogens and factors associated.