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Thu, Mar 30
|Bissau
BELAB-NOVAFRICA 2023 Conference
We are excited to share with you the program for the BELAB-NOVAFRICA 2023 Conference! This is the first joint effort of the two organizations made possible by the support of CSAE, University of Oxford and PEP - Partnership for Economic Policy.
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Mar 30, 2023, 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Bissau, VC58+6FR, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
About the event
- 8:30 - Registration
- 9:00 - Update on BELAB activities, with Brais Álvarez-Pereira (Nova SBE)
- 9:15 - Update on NOVAFRICA activities, with Pedro C. Vicente (Nova SBE)
- 9:30 - Mobile Money – past, present and future, with Pedro C. Vicente (Nova SBE)
- 10:15 - Motivating Volunteer Health Workers in an African Capital City, with Teresa Millán-Molina (University of Alicante)
- 10:45 - Follow the Leader: Community-based Health Insurance in West Africa, with Rute M. Caeiro (UNU-WIDER)
- 11:15 - Coffee break
- 11:45 - Updates on PEP activities, with Maria Laura Alzua (CEDLAS)
- 12:15 - Impact of Market Information on Cashew Producers in Guinea-Bissau, with Adewusi Mendonça (BELAB) and Dayvikson Raiss Laval Tavares (BELAB)
- 12:45 - Social representations on the Toca-Toca route, with Racinela Flávia Fernandes da Silva (IMVF – Ação Ianda Guiné-Djuntu)
- 13:15 - Lunch
- 14:30 - Follow-up of Post-Covid-19 Patients in Guinea-Bissau, with Crister Ocadaque (ONGD VIDA)
- 15.00 - An in-depth study of barriers and facilitators to the uptake of essential maternal care and child health services in Guinea-Bissau, with Justiniano Martins (Bandim Health Project)
- 15:30 - Can BCG vaccination at first contact with the Health Unit reduce early infant mortality? A randomized controlled trial of clusters, with Julie Odgaard Vedel (Bandim Health Project)
- 15:45 - Break
- 16:15 - Fifteen years of research into conservation genetics of primates from Guinea-Bissau and implications for the management of threatened populations, with Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva (CIBIO) and Ivo Costeira (Cardiff University)
- 16:30 - Developing an Evidence-Based Coexistence Strategy to Promote Human and Wildlife Health in a Biodiverse Agroforest Landscape, with Hellen Bersacola (University of Exeter)
- 16:45 - Biodiversity monitoring in Cantanhez National Park to inform coexistence strategies between humans and wildlife, with Americo Sanha (tbc)
- 17:00 - Unique health promotion in an agro-forestry and biodiverse landscape in Guinea-Bissau, with Sara Marnur Faria Fernandes Quadé (Ministry of the Environment)
- 17:15 - In and Out of National Parks: the role of local ecological knowledge in the long-term conservation of biodiversity anthropogenic landscapes in West Africa, with Chloe Chesney (Protect Great Apes from Disease)
- 17:30 - Closing of activities
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