Join PSI at ICFP as we put Youth-Powered Healthcare at the forefront and share how better approaches can be designed by some of the most unlikely partners. While PSI invites you to our more than 80 posters, presentations and other exciting events, here are 14 mustn’t misses to learn who’s #InMySquad and let us know who’s in yours!
Tuesday, November 13
Task sharing and task shifting to expand access to family planning session:
Introduction of Depo-Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Subcutaneous Injection through Use of Community Based Distributors in Zambia, 8-11am
Location: MH3
PSI Presence: Andrianadison Elisohasina Rafalimanana; Ashley Sorgi, Amanda Kalamar, Saysana Phanalasy
Event: Flash Speed Round
Involving men in family planning via vasectomy and the standard days method session:
Bold male engagement strategy increases NSV coverage and male participation in family planning, 2:35-3:55pm
Location: TBD
PSI Presence: Mukesh Sharma, Samarendra Behera, Sanjay Pandey, Vivek Sharma, Anuresh Kumar, Nitin Dwivedi
Event: Oral Presentation
Client satisfaction measurement and Redefining Quality of Care session:
Patient-Provider Trust: Findings from the Assessing Service Quality and Contraceptive Discontinuation (ASQ-D) Study in Uganda, 4:20-5:40pm
Location: Atrium 1
PSI Presence: Amanda Kalamar, Ashley Sorgi
Event: Oral Presentation
******Evening Among the Stars, 5:30-7pm
Celebrate the stars of the Modern Contraception Movement—you! Join the ICFP organizing committee and PSI for paparazzi-filled red carpet event to honor the Lifetime Achievements of Bill Gates, Sr. and give the Future is Female award to Maverick Collective Member Jess Jacobs, an actress, speaker, advocate and co-founder of Invisible Pictures, a women-led production company.
*****The Method Remix: Not Your Mama’s After-Party
7:00-9pm
Join Rwandan DJ and YouTube Sensation Makeda Mahadeo in a PSI and HCD Exchange-sponsored dance party and auditorium-wide interactive game! We’ll explore the major tenets of employing Human Centered Design with Adolescents and Youth for solutions in Sexual and Reproductive Health. Don’t miss the Youth Poetry Jam to introduce the Commitment to Action: Ethics in Youth-Powered Program Design. Food and drink will keep us all going following The Evening Among the Stars.
Wednesday, November 14
Adolescent Girls Under Siege: Understanding the Sexual Pressures of Young Women and How To Empower Them Through Sexual And Reproductive Health session:
Irrelevant, Dangerous, and at Odds with My Identity and Dreams: Qualitative research findings using human-centered methodology in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania reveal emotional dynamics complicating contraceptive use among adolescent girls, 10:25-11:45am
Location: Poolside Lounge
PSI Presence: Claire Cole, Rebecca Firestone, Rena Greifinger, Ahna Suleiman, Fatima Muhammad
Event: Poster Presentation
Innovation in public-private partnerships: lessons from four countries session:
Private Public Partnership to Deliver Dramatically Improved Family Planning Outcomes in Public Health Facilities in Gaza Province, Mozambique, 10:25-11:45 am
Location: MH1
PSI Presence: Ryan Kelley, Loide Cossa
Event: Oral Presentation
The Blossoming of Implant Use in Africa session:
How It Happened and What Lies Ahead; Insights from Implant Users, and the Future of Consumer-focused Implant Services, 11:55am-1:15pm
Location: MH2
PSI Presence: James Ayers, Meredith Center, Sotheary Khim
Event: Preformed Panel
The role of the private sector in family planning programming session:
Helping private provider networks develop health financing options and contribute to national FP and UHC agendas: experiences from Cambodia, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, 11:55am-1:15pm
Location: MH2
PSI Presence: Rebecca Husband, Pierre Moon
Event: Preformed Panel
******Commitment to Action: Ethics in Youth-Powered Program Design, 2:30-3:15p
Come to the official launch of PSI and the HCD Exchange’s Commitment to Action: Ethics in Youth-Powered Program Design with the statement’s initial signors. This press-moderated roundtable discussion will explore the responsibilities of bringing the human-centered design process to vulnerable populations like Youth and Adolescents. We’ll discuss how to conduct this cutting-edge research underpinned with respect, justice and safeguards to ensure practitioners do no harm. Learn more and sign on if you haven’t already.
Quality improvement in family planning session:
Improving Client Service Experience and Satisfaction Through E-System Based Support Supervison– The HNQJS Story, 4:20-5:40pm
Location: Atrium 2
PSI Presence: Moses Odot
Event: Oral Presentation
Women’s Self-Care in Sexual and Reproductive Health New Options, New Evidence session:
Consumer powered healthcare: Home-based medication abortion, 4:20-5:40pm
Location: MH2
PSI Presence: James Ayers
Event: Preformed Panel
Thursday, November 15
No secrets in this house: Parental support for family planning session:
‘From barriers to allies’: supporting parents to create pathways to adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health in urban and peri-urban settings of Tanzania, 10:25-11:45 am
Location: Atrium 3
PSI Presence: Arnold Kabahaula, Claire Cole, Edwin Mtei, Phillipo Issabu
Event: Oral Presentation
Parental support for family planning; Parental consent: A hindrance or catalyst to adolescent’s access to contraception in Lagos State, Nigeria, 10:25-11:45 am
Location: Atrium 4
PSI Presence: Fifi Oluwatoyin Ogbondeminu
Event: Oral Presentation