CHP PhD Completion Seminar - Anu Oommen
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Title: Co-designing a programmatic approach for HPV-based cervical screening among vulnerable women in India
Supervisors: Prof Julia Brotherton, Evaluation and Implementation Science; Dr. Claire Nightingale, Evaluation and Implementation Science; Prof Sumit Kane, Nossal Institute for Global Health; Prof Barbara McPake (Chair), Nossal Institute for Global Health
Date and time: Wednesday 20 August at 2:30pm (AEST)
Bio: Dr. Anu Oommen is a public health physician working in a not-for-profit hospital in south India, where she has been leading efforts to implement community-based cervical and breast screening in rural areas. Through her implementation research and interest in NCDs, she combines her clinical experience of working at primary and secondary care levels for over 15 years, with her interests in public health programs, especially screening.
Abstract: India, which has one of the lowest cervical screening rates, uses a visual, subjective method for screening, while the globally recommended strategy is HPV testing.
Dr Oommen’s PhD study used implementation research methodology to co-design a strategy to deliver HPV testing through self-collection, to women from rural, tribal and urban low resource settings, in Tamil Nadu, India. The formative mixed methods research findings enabled stakeholders to collectively design the programmatic approach, to be evaluated though a cluster randomised implementation trial.
Location: Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton (Seminar room 516)