Imaging the Future of Public Health

Speakers:

• Prof. Tollulah Oni : CEO, UrbanBetter and Clinical Professor, University of Cambridge
• Dr. Duha Shellah Vice Chair, WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) Youth Council Steering Committee Invitation

Closing Ceremony

Speakers:

• Mr. Lance Louskieter : Tekano Health Equity South Africa, Division of Health Policy and Systems, school of Public Health, UCT
• Dr. Nand A. Marshall, DrPH, CHES, CLC, CDE. President, American Public Health Association. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University

Public Health Leadership: An essential tool towards malaria elimination

Speakers: J. de, T. Kruger, M. Mthombeni, A. Coutinho

The Pholela Lecture 2026: Advancing Equity, Inclusion and Sustainability Through Health Systems Leadership

Speakers: S. Moodley, M. Kawonga, T. Naledi, I. Ntatamala, A. Mosam, M. Paleker, S. De

Power, Partnership, and Public Health: Lessons from Mutual Aid-Medical Collaboration

Speakers: N. Kratz, R. Lichtenstein, Y. Saavedra, K. Sugarman

Measuring organisational readiness for health system change in south africa using the european foundation for quality management excellence model

Speakers: M. Masike, O. Mahomed

Postnatal pesticide exposure and executive function in children and adolescents: Findings from South Africa

Speakers: P. Viglietti, L. Jäggi, H. Wey, A. Petitpierre, C. Lindh, K. Rousseau, D. Mac, M. Röösli, S. Malcolm-Smith, S. Fuhrimann, M. Dalvie

Disability- and youth-friendly approach to sexual and reproductive health and rights education. in Uganda: A skill-building workshop for global and public health practitioners and researchers

Speakers: A. Emma, E. Bryan, O. Patrick, K. Patrick, B. Imani, G. Fortin, M. Mac-seing

From data to decisions: using routine district health data to advance equitable and sustainable primary health care

Speakers: N. Ndlovu, E. Dominic, N. Blose, M. Mokganya, A. Padarath, T. Zondi

Applying the IM4Equity Framework to Advance Equitable HPV Vaccination in Low-Resource Settings

Speakers: A. Begum, E. Cathey

Retinal imaging as a public health tool: Opportunities for prevention, early detection, and surveillance of systemic diseases

Speakers: P. Ngassa, A. Munsamy, L. Buthelezi, A. Cois, W. Smith, D. Bester, H. Strijdom, M. Blignaut, T. Boltman

Embedding student mental health data in university governance, leadership, and practice: A world café for a whole-university approach

Speakers: J. Lehnchen, G. Pilz, C. Stock, Z. Deptolla, J. Burian, K. Heinrichs

Centring the voice of women who use drugs in public health research and practice

Speakers: V. Beere

Roundtable on Youth Leadership and Representation on Public Health Governance

Speakers: D. Nicoletti, S. Seferi, A. Irmak, K. Cutajar

Equitable Cervical Cancer Prevention in Ghana: Policy Challenges and Opportunities in HPV Vaccination

Speakers: E. Asempah, E. Ikpebe, M. Wyndham-West, M. Wiktorowicz

Should South Africa Develop a Clinical Program Guideline for Mental Health?

Speakers: S. Abdulla, L. Robertson, D. Shiba, L. Fairall, T. Seshoka, M. Makgata, C. Chambers, B. Patel

Building Public Health Workforce Resilience: Integrating research, theory and practice

Speakers: E. ROBERTS, J. Rucker, M. Tula, K. McCormick, S. Whipple, C. Gaylor

AI Applications for Epidemic Preparedness in Cross-Border Contexts (IHR Perspective)

Speakers: D. Shellah

A practical guide to citizen-centred evaluation for more equitable and responsive health systems

Speakers: Z. Khan, D. Bernardo, F. Haddad, P. Schattan

Training for uncertainty: capacity building for public health professionals in emergencies

Speakers: D. Shellah

The South African Health Promotion Levy: Navigating Public Health Gains, Economic Realities, and Future Directions

Speakers: A. Nyembezi

Continuity of Care is a Design Choice: Why Fragmentation Persists and How Health Systems Can Stop Designing for It

Speakers: T. Steffek

From equity commitment to action: Applying the 4C framework and maturity matrix for embedding equity, diversity and inclusion principles in public health policy and practice.

Speakers: N. Skogberg, T. Spadea, M. Nousiainen, I. Hussein, B. Armocida, J. Zaletel, A. Fullaondo, B. Formenti, G. Onder, R. Osborne

Creating code of ethics and professional conduct for public health professionals and institutions

Speakers: F. Tahzib, M. Codd, K. Czabanowska, J. Mfutso-Bengo, J. Thomas, P. Schröder-Bäck,, P. Athanasopoulos

Racism and global child health: a complex systems approach

Speakers: B. Cabieses

Building pillars for professionalisation of the public health workforce

Speakers: F. Tahzib, T. Daszkiewicz, K. Czabanowska, F. Ogunlayi, J. Mfutso-Bengo, M. Codd, L. Magana, A. Mosam

Occupational Lung Diseases including tuberculosis in South African mining industry: A panel discussion on intervention of the last decade!

Speakers: M. Zungu, A. YASSI, T. Balfour, S. Hariparsad, I. Ntatamala, J. Spiegel, R. Ehrlich, N. Moyo, B. Kistnasamy

The silent epidemic: Childhood trauma as a Public Health crisis

Speakers: E. Conibear

NPHI Models and Sub-Regional Co-ordination for SADC

Speakers: M. Ncube, L. Pitso, S. Mahanjana, I. Kleinhans

Strengthening global public health through cross-border collaboration: A case study of collaboration between the UK Faculty of Public Health and the College of Public Health Medicine of South Africa

Speakers: F. Ogunlayi, A. Mosam, J. Haywood, C. Pillay, L. Fagan, L. Makurah, S. Thakrar, V. Joseph, H. Somaroo, T. Daszkiewicz, S. Moodley

Now more than ever: The need for Public Health Association advocacy

Speakers: J. Chauvin, L. Rispel, H. Somaroo, T. Rawson, G. Benjamin, D. Paes

Collaborative learning and knowledge co-creation as catalysts for health system strengthening: The South African Learning Alliance for District Health Systems

Speakers: H. Schneider, V. Janse, H. Mahomed, K. Govender, I. Petersen, Z. Luvuno, B. Engelbrecht, M. Smuts, K. Vallabhjee, E. Whyle, C. Goliath, R. Morar, S. Gede, O. Motshweneng, S. Cleary, T. Assegaai, C. Wang, I. Govender, J. Mndebele, N. Nxumalo, C. Nelson, Z. Kiti, H. Langa, L. Gilson

Slot 20  |  Station 1 

Maternal & Child Health 

1. Molecular detection of mosquito-borne viruses in pregnant women in some hospitals within Bauchi metropolis Bauchi state, Nigeria  —  G. Joseph 
2. Quality of healthcare services and voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) utilization among pregnant women in South-West Nigeria: a review of literature  —  O. Awolehin 
3. Threads of tradition: emirati mothers’ perspective on family dynamics and support systems during the perinatal period  —  I. Farah 
4. WHO is left behind? socioeconomic and geographic inequalities in anemia and micronutrient deficiencies in Nepal: evidence from the national micronutrient survey  —  D. K.c. 
5. Social media exposure and gender disparities in vaping among a population of south african high school students  —  R. Kudenga 
6. Judicial decisions in public health and intervention bioethics: effects of authorizing the termination of pregnancy for anencephaly in Brazil  —  L. Justo 
7. Characteristics and distribution of emergency medical services utilisation for obstetric emergencies in the Western Cape  —  V. De 
8. Prevalence of adolescent motherhood in conflict-affected regions of Cameroon  —  N. Ngwayu 
9. Time to recovery and its associated factors of age 2-59 months sever pneumonia patients admitted to university of Gondar referral hospital  —  A. Aguade 
10. Mapping the risk of diarrhoea using spatial fuzzy lattice catchment areas  —  A. Pieters 

Slot 20  |  Station 2 

Health Systems 

1. Effectiveness of a health systems strengthening intervention to improve detection, treatment, and control of multiple long-term conditions in primary health care facilities in South Africa: type 2 hybrid cluster randomised control trial  —  L. Fairall 
2. Enhancing anxiety screening through EMR integration in a family-focused HIV care program: a quality improvement initiative  —  S. Gunturu 
3. From competitions to connections: lessons from the implementation of 10,000 steps program in organisational settings  —  D. Kaphle 
4. Traditional health attendants and community health workers' role in advancing viral hepatitis elimination services in crisis resettlement settings of Nigeria  —  P. Azubuike 
5. Health system optimization of the national TB program in Mongolia  —  G. Ganbaatar 
6. Nudging Sub-Saharan african primary health care systems toward preventive and promotional care: project design and conceptual framework for the development of remote functions  —  H. Onya 
7. Bridging the audit gap: insights into knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward clinical audit among sudanese doctors  —  E. Awad 
8. Effectiveness of training and evaluation tools for community health workers delivering comprehensive care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review  —  O. Babalola 
9. Systemic and structural barriers to infection prevention and control practices in Thika level 5 hospital, Kiambu county, Kenya.  —  S. Ndwandwe 
10. Title: baseline evidence informing a systems-based economic empowerment approach to reduce health inequality and environmental degradation in Uganda’s Luwero triangle  —  P. Ayebare 
11. From fee to fairness: designing risk adjusted capitation to transform primary care in Nepal – a comparative scoping review  —  T. Ojha 

Slot 20  |  Station 3 

Health Systems 

1. Charting unlinked data: understanding optimal development and healthy ageing across the life course in Pakistan  —  S. Sameen 
2. Service availability and readiness for out-patient integrated management of multimorbidity in public primary health facilities in Malawi: a mixed methods analysis  —  G. Banda-Mtaula 
3. From research to action: strengthening diabetes foot screening in South Africa through participatory research with patients and healthcare providers  —  J. Houghton 
4. Urgent gaps in the provision of diabetes foot care in the Cape Metropole of South Africa: a qualitative study  —  J. Houghton 
5. Outpatient waiting time and influencing factors at the outpatient department, ky anh town general hospital, Ha Tinh province, Vietnam: a cross-sectional study  —  Q. La 
6. The impact of structural barriers on black men’s health-seeking behaviours in the public primary healthcare settings of Ga-Rankuwa township, Pretoria, South Africa  —  M. Mookeng 
7. Barriers and facilitators of translating research evidence into policy and practice in Zambia: a scoping review  —  E. Mukambo 
8. Strengthening primary healthcare governance to address health worker absenteeism in Nigeria: insights from frontline managers  —  C. Obi 
9. From data to action: strengthening family planning scale up through health educators in Nigeria  —  S. Odukogbe 
10. Strengthening primary care systems through improved screening, referral pathways, and governance: lessons from the faith based facilities in sub saharan africa  —  A. Opiata 

Slot 21  |  Station 1 

Maternal & Child Health 

1. The impact of structured infection prevention training on maternal sepsis in rural private not for profit health facilities in Uganda  —  C. Lipoto 
2. Wave 1 findings from a prospective cohort evaluation of the flourish mother and child programme  —  R. Mathys 
3. Quality and system performance: progress and gaps across the RMNCAHA+n continuum of care and life course in Botswana  —  N. Ramabu 
4. Intersecting supply- and demand-side barriers to accessing safe abortion care among adolescents and young women in southern Ethiopia: insights from levesque’s access framework.  —  N. Sidamo 
5. Association between caesarean section and neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries  —  E. Yisma 
6. The concealed pregnancy phenomenon: motivations for keeping pregnancy a secret amongst women in Soweto, Johannesburg  —  L. Ntsie 
7. Global research trends on feeding fermented foods to children: a bibliometric analysis from 1995 to 2024  —  M. Malema 
8. Prevalence of xerophthalmia and associated factors among pregnant women in Tigray region, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study  —  E. Ayele 
9. Knowledge level of sexual and reproductive health rights and its associated factors among female students at wolegga university, Nekemte, western Ethiopia  —  L. Dinsa 
10. Cross-sectional analysis of risk factors associated with the coexistence of three undernutrition indicators among children aged 0–23 months in Tanzania  —  E. Pallangyo 

Slot 21  |  Station 2 

Maternal & Child Health 

1. "through our eyes": learner perspectives from the Western Cape planet youth survey on wellbeing, substance use, and safety  —  M. Motloung 
2. Chronic morbidity and health seeking behavior among post-menopausal women  —  P. Sharma 
3. Child marriage, maternal age, and hidden disabilities: public health implications for mothers and children in Sub-Saharan Africa  —  O. Rhoda 
4. Individual and community-level factors influencing modern contraceptive use among women of reproductive age in South Africa: a multilevel analysis  —  K. Sifora 
5. Urinary nephrin: a potential biomarker of early glomerular injury in a cohort of pregnant women  —  B. Mesfine 
6. Maternal multimorbidity, lifestyle behaviours during pregnancy, and early-childhood growth trajectories: a population-based longitudinal study  —  X. Xu 
7. Prevalence of intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Ghana and its associated factors: a cross-sectional study  —  R. Aboagye 
8. Does school violence impact violence victimisation and perpetration later in life? evidence from a cohort study in Luwero, Uganda  —  A. Bhatia 
9. Prevalence, factors and perinatal outcomes associated with unbooked and booked maternity admissions-a cross sectional study  —  C. Khanyisa 
10. Illustrative analysis of trends in maternal, newborn and child health using routinely collected data in Kenya  —  K. Bromley 

Slot 21  |  Station 3 

Health Systems 

1. Knowledge of nurse educators working in higher education regarding the “undetectable = untransmissible” concept in HIV care: a scoping review  —  R. Forormo 
2. Health systems strengthening through good governance: a research priority setting workshop  —  R. Mazibuko 
3. A conceptual framework for integrating HIV, STIs and pregnancy prevention services in Vhembe district, Limpopo, South Africa: improving teenagers’ health outcomes.  —  M. Rammela 
4. Development and validation of an integrated HIV/STI, and pregnancy prevention programme: improving adolescent sexual health outcomes  —  M. Rammela 
5. Evaluating the implementation of adolescent- and youth-friendly services in the selected primary healthcare facilities in Vhembe district, Limpopo province  —  M. Rammela 
6. Ethnic inequalities in antenatal care and infant mortality within and across 35 low- and middle-income countries: a decomposition and scenario analysis  —  T. Hone 
7. Healthcare workers’ acceptability of integrating oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery into routine antenatal and postnatal clinic services in Cape Town, South Africa: a qualitative sub-study  —  R. Taliep 
8. Exploring mental heath referral journeys in a low socio-economic setting in South Africa.  —  C. Swinny 
9. Closing the gap between public health and primary care: strengthening health systems to ensure equity in South Africa  —  I. Matthew 
10. Patients WHO abscond from Free State public healthcare facilities; 2020 - 2023  —  B. Thekisho 

Slot 41  |  Station 1 

Research & Methods 

1. Thirty years of strategic foresight shaping public health in the Netherlands  —  H. Hilderink 
2. Epidemiological surveillance actions in leprosy control  —  D. Quele 
3. Estimating childhood tuberculosis incidence and under-reporting in gedeo zone, Ethiopia: a bayesian hidden markov model  —  S. Tesfaye 
4. Implementing Brazil’s national health surveillance policy through cooperative intelligence: the picaps platform and a one health approach  —  J. Nunes 
5. Improving reliability of dual HIV/syphilis testing: a study on assessing the staff competency on utilization and interpretation through the internal quality control (iqc) process in Gauteng province, South Africa  —  A. Marsh 
6. Medicine unavailability and institutional responses in Brazil's unified health system: a user perspective in primary care  —  E. Miranda 
7. Surveillance support and compliance with epidemic-prone disease surveillance among private healthcare facilities in ibadan metropolis  —  A. Solagbade 
8. First hand laboratory evidence of rising antimicrobial resistance and emergency preparedness gaps in Nigeria  —  A. Adebayo 
9. Underreporting of organophosphate poisoning: awareness, knowledge, and perceptions among healthcare workers”  —  W. Van 

Slot 41  |  Station 2 

Ageing & Adult Health 

1. Vascular intervention in presenium can decide the quality of life in a patient with peripheral arterial disease  —  K. Dostalova 
2. Aging and cancer in the caribbean: incidence and mortality trends among older adults during COVID-19 - population-based analysis from Martinique, 2008-2022  —  A. Puello 
3. Tinnitus in Switzerland: national prevalence, age gradients, and cultural-linguistic differences within a unified health system  —  W. Schlee 
4. Birth weight and diabetes risk in adulthood: evidence from the 1970 british cohort study  —  M. Shojaa 
5. Aging away from home: a cultural context and workforce challenges for african australians; the necessity for an ‘afrocentric’ care model in australia  —  M. Watts 
6. Perimenopause in the workplace: the impact of media representation and online communities on women’s health literacy  —  E. Kendal 
7. Key issues in safeguarding research integrity for public health research on older people. directives from global research integrity statements  —  L. Lategan 
8. Claims to care, equity in later-life: healthcare access of aging filipino migrants in japan and belgium  —  F. Famaloan 

Slot 42  |  Station 1 

Equity, Minorities & Decolonisation 

1. Model to facilitate the sustainability of social justice in nursing education and practice  —  M. Makwakwa 
2. Decolonising pesticide regulatory frameworks: shedding the ‘industrial’ and the ‘colonial’ to protect health of pesticide users in low- and middle-income countries  —  L. Utyasheva 
3. Power, place, and publication: a bibliometric analysis of authorship equity in ajtmh (2015-2025)  —  S. Phadke 
4. Title: health without borders: advancing equity inclusion and sustainability in global public health  —  S. Gichamo 
5. Ngaanyatjarra indigenous men’s vaccination project  —  M. Whitehead 
6. Territory, body, and spirit: indigenous women, food sovereignty and the production of health  —  I. Tavares 
7. Towards decolonizing medicine and healthcare: the place of african health and healing traditions  —  G. Nwaka 
8. Caregiver’s knowledge, attitudes and practices on consumption of traditional green leafy vegetables among children attending early childhood development centers in the city of tshwane  —  N. Semenekane 
9. Outcome of early insulin administration on anxiety associated newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: an interventional study  —  K. Navim 
10. Transcriptomic profiling reveals the molecular shift from adaptive immunity to hypoxic innate inflammation in asthma progression  —  N. Husna