Global health policy and academic leaders have endorsed ambitious goals for continued reductions in the global burden of disease in coming decades. Interventions to pursue these goals are numerous and evolving. However, resources are limited, so choosing wisely for local needs and implementing well are critical.

Please join us for this colloquium, with experts, policy makers, researchers, and trainees. We will discuss economic concepts and tools to develop locally optimal intervention portfolios and maximize intervention effectiveness and efficiency. We will examine the interface of program scale-up, implementation enhancement, monitoring and quality.

Program

8:30 Coffee and Registration

8:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks by Organizers

James G. Kahn & Jaime Sepulveda, UCSF
Douglas Owens, Stanford University
Stefano Bertozzi, UC Berkeley

8:50 Efficiency, Ethics, Diplomacy

Moderator: James G. Kahn, UCSF
Health Diplomacy: Responding to Global Health Challenges, Eric Goosby, UCSF
Ethical & Efficiency Choices in Portfolio Design, Elliot Marseille, HSI

9:20 Keynote – Identifying Priorities in the Disease Control Priorities Project

Dean Jamison, Director DCP3, Emeritus Professor, UCSF
(with Stefano Bertozzi, Emeritus Dean, UC Berkeley)

10:30 Break

10:45 Optimizing Implementation

Moderator: Colin Boyle, UCSF
Gas stoves: Implementation Science for a Traditional Practice, Guatemala, Margaret Handley, UCSF
Implementation Science for TB Diagnosis & Treatment, Uganda, Adithya Cattamanchi, UCSF
Challenges to Achieving Savings in ART with Differentiated Care & Viral Load Testing, Ruanne Barnabas, UW
Influence of Existing Capacities on Intervention Choice, Elvin Geng, UCSF.

12:15 Networking Lunch

1:15 Feasibility and Efficiency in Intervention Design: the PATH Paradigm

Clint Pecenka, PATH

1:40 NextGen Intervention Economics

Moderator: Eran Bendavid, Stanford
Global Health Cost Consortium: Determinants of HIV Intervention Unit Costs in LMIC, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, INSP Mexico
Cost-effectiveness Analysis for Adaptive Evaluation of ART Adherence Strategies, Uganda, Starley Shade, UCSF

2:30 Keynote – High quality health systems for high quality interventions

Margaret E. Kruk, Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chair, Lancet Commission on High Quality Health

3:30 Break

3:45 Ambitious Programs with Constrained Resources

Moderator: Carol Levin, U. Washington
FACES: Maintaining Interventions with Slashed Resources, Kenya, Craig Cohen, UCSF
Malaria Elimination Investment Case Intervention Portfolio, South Africa, Katie Fox, UCSF

4:45 Reception – food, drink, music, networking