HERA: Healthcare Responding to Domestic Violence & Abuse in Brazil, Nepal, Sri Lanka & occupied Palestinian Territories

In person attendance is no longer available. You can register as an online attendee or email patricia.martens@bristol.ac.uk if you would like to join the in person waiting list.

Join us to discuss the findings of HERA (Healthcare Responding to Violence and Abuse), a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Global Research Group that over the last five years has been developing and evaluating a domestic violence and abuse healthcare intervention in low and middle-income countries.

This event is both a celebration of the completion of the Group’s work and an opportunity to reflect on its impact and implications.

HERA was co-led by the University of Bristol and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Specific country studies were led by the University of Sāo Paulo in Brazil, An Najah National University in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Kathmandu University in Nepal and the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka.

The World Health Organization provided additional methodological, technical and policy expertise on health systems interventions for violence against women.

There will be a launch screening of a short film about HERA during the event.

Please note: You may attend in-person or online. You can choose your ticket type when you register. Admission is free. In-person places are limited but you will have the option to join a waiting list if registration is full. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. If you attend online a Zoom link will be sent to you two days before the event.

Agenda:

10.30-11.00   Registration coffee/tea

11.00-11.05   Chair’s introduction

                       Professor Gene Feder, University of Bristol

11.05-11.10   Welcome and opening comments

                       Claudia Garcia Moreno, World Health Organization

11.10-11.20   Overview of the HERA intervention and headline findings                    

                       Professor Ana Flavia d’Oliveira, University of São Paulo

                       Unexpected findings & implications

11.20-11.30   Brazil - Dr Stephanie Pereira - University of São Paulo

11.30-11.40   Nepal - Dr Poonam Rishal - Kathmandu University

11.40-11.50  Occupied Palestinian Territories

                        Associate Professor Abdulsalam Alkaiyat - An-Najah National University

11.50-12.00  Sri Lanka - Professor Thilini Rajapakse - University of Peradeniya

                       Afternoon Co-Chairs                      

                       Professor Thilini Rajapakse – University of Peradeniya

                       Dr Poonam Rishal – Kathmandu University

12.00- 12.10 Film: HERA: Health Care Responding to Domestic Violence & Abuse in Brazil, 

                        Nepal, Sri Lanka & Occupied Palestinian Territories

                       Introduction – Professor Loraine Bacchus, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

12.10-12.30   Informal discussion around the film and refreshments.

12.30-13.00   Key discussant panel

                        Dr Marcos Signorelli, Associate Professor of Public Health, Federal University of Parana,                                    Brazil.

                        Dr Nethanjalie Mapitigama, Consultant Community Physician, Former Program Manager, Gender                          and Women's Health, Family Health Bureau, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka.

                        Mr Sandip KC, Health Section Chief, Dhulikhel Municipality, Nepal

                        Dr Samah Saleh, lecturer and coordinator of the Master's Program in Women's Studies at An-Najah                          National University, Occupied Palestinian Territories                                                      

                        Professor Delan Devakumar, Professor of Global Child Health, University College of London.

                        Alexandra Griffiths, Global Health & International Research Manager | NIHR Coordinating Centre,                           UK.

13.00-13.25   General audience (in person and online) questions/comments

13.25-13.30   Closing thoughts

                       Professor Loraine Bacchus – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

13.30-14.30 Lunch and networking