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Musculoskeletal disorders effect one in every two Americans costing $213 billion a year as the #1 cause of disability worldwide, with cost and disability rates of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) continues to escalate. Speakers will discuss new ways to reduce this workforce epidemic through cost effective physical therapy (PT) and virtual care from employer and employee perspectives.

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Efficiency &amp; Outcomes of Direct Access to Physical Therapy for Musculoskeletal Disorders vs Physician-First Access in the US

The OWSD General Assembly and international conference will be held entirely online for the first time in OWSD's 28-year history, allowing as many of OWSD's 7600+ members to participate as possible.

The conference theme is 'Women, science and development', exploring three areas of relevance: 1) the importance of basic sciences for development; 2) the impact of applied sciences on development and 3) including sex and gender as variables in scientific research.


**Keynote speakers include:** 
* Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN; 
* Bina Agarwal, an internationally celebrated economist specializing in the political economy of gender, poverty and inequality; and 
* Angela Saini, award-winning author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story, Superior: The Return of Race Science, and other books. 

OWSD members will present their own research in the three themes during poster sessions throughout the conference. In addition, members will also present their own scientific and personal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. All members will also have the opportunity to take part in a workshop on increasing their visibility and impact as a scientist, with a session on using podcasts for storytelling by Joy Owango and Adelle Onyango of the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), followed by a session on filmmaking for impact by Nicole Leghissa, OWSD video consultant.

The conference will include a handover of the previous OWSD Executive Board to the new members, elected in June-July 2021. On the last day of the conference (19 November), the OWSD Italy Country Network will be launched. **This will be an in-person event in Trieste.** Italian government representatives and donors are invited to attend. The Trieste event will be coordinated with similar in person events being held in OWSD countries throughout the developing world and streamed online. At least 2,000 OWSD members, women scientists from developing countries around the world, are expected to participate online in the General Assembly and conference.

 

**ABOUT THE PROGRAMME**

In order to approach the complex and wide-ranging challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, societies around the world must access and harness all the talent and experience available to them. The concerns and perceptions of the greatest number of all possible actors and recipients must be considered in order that the most relevant issues and effective solutions are found. Women are considerably underrepresented as researchers in STEM subjects around the globe; according to UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) data, in 2019 the global average percentage of women researchers was still below 30%. Yet women typically have first hand specialist knowledge of the day-to-day challenges diverse individuals face within communities, and can be key informers in the design and development of their solutions. Moreover, since women are most often the providers of informal community support, if they are not fully informed—and if solutions are developed without their consultation—it may be the case that products, services and solutions are not relevant or appropriate. Technological advances may mean improved machines on large farms, for example, potentially increasing food production, but since the key points of food insecurity in the world are on small-scale farms managed by women throughout the Global South, such capital investments will have little impact in the areas where food production is most critical—and where women’s knowledgeable implementation of appropriate innovative technologies could make the most difference.

 
 


**Keynote Speakers:**
* Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN; 
* Bina Agarwal, an internationally celebrated economist specializing in the political economy of gender, poverty and inequality; and 
* Angela Saini, award-winning author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story, Superior: The Return of Race Science, and other books. 

**Eminent Guests:**
* Elena Bonetti, Italian Minister for Family and Equal Opportunities
* Maria Cristina Messa,	Italian Minister of Universities and Research
* Shamila Nair-Bedouelle,	Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
* Maria Chiara Carrozza,	President, National Research Council of Italy
* Kerstin Jonsson Cisse,	Head of Unit for Globally Sustainable Economic Development, Sida - Sweden
* Naser Faruqui,	Director of Education and Science at IDRC - Canada
* Ylann Schemm,	Director, Elsevier Foundation
* Alberto Quadrio Curzio,	President Emeritus of the Italian Academy of Sciences and Humanities 
* Mohamed Hassan,	President, TWAS the World Academy of Sciences

**Chairs, panelists, interviewers and other speakers:**
Jennifer Thomson, Tonya Blowers, Rana Dajani, Shobhana Narasimhan, Joy Owango, Elizabeth Pollitzer, Kausila Timsina, Elizabeth Bandason, Susana Arrechea, Reinabelle Reyes, Dorine Odongo, Elizabeth Pollitzer, Adelle Onyango, Nicole Leghissa, Jana Rodriguez Hertz, Maryse Nkoua Ngavouka, Kate Shaw, Chao Mbogo, Prativa Pandey, Edna Patricia Matta-Camacho, Amira Shaheen, Wezi Nyambili, Ana Lucía Martinez Abarca, Mashura Shammi, Therese Umuhoza, Dionica Gamboa, Marian Nkansah, Babalola Olubukola Oluranti, Esi Awuah, Fortunate Farirai, Atya Kapley, Hasin Anupama Azhari, Huda Basaleem, Nashwa Eassa, Shymaa Enany, Kleinsy Bonilla, Patricia Castillo-Briceno, Fang Xin

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OWSD 6th GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

OWSD, the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, announces its 6th General Assembly and International Conference, which will be held from November 8-19, 2021. The conference theme is **'Women, science and development'**, exploring three areas of relevance: 1) the importance of basic sciences for development; 2) the impact of applied sciences on development and 3) including sex and gender as variables in scientific research.

Efficiency & Outcomes of Direct Access to Physical Therapy for Musculoskeletal Disorders vs Physician-First Access in the US

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Watch the acclaimed health tech modernization symposium sessions catalyzing C-suite global market executives driving healthcare to the next plateau through initiatives, policy, trust building and low cost health solutions at **#ConV2X 2021 “Driving Telehealth & Technology: Blueprint for a New Digital Health Era”**

Focusing on health policy, telehealth and virtual care, blockchain and edge technologies, **ConV2X 2021** is the premier destination community identifying new and cost effective paths forward through real world evidence, strategy, operations, research & trends.

Enjoy the talks of healthcare leadership & breakthrough technology providers that inspire and guide informed decision making for health policy development, health systems and world citizens to successfully navigate a new digital health era.

Focusing on health policy, telehealth and virtual care, blockchain and edge technologies, ConV2X 2021 is the premier destination community identifying new and cost effective paths forward through real world evidence, strategy, operations, research & trends.

From LATAM, to Pakistan, to Nigeria to China, panelists tackle issues including barriers and solutions for mobile internet adoption, impact investing, partnership, social enterprise and national policies for eHealth. Speakers offer guidance on how to scale technology for end users, solve for manpower issues, connection flexibilities and offer uniform thinking for local successes.

Innovations in Virtual Healthcare: The Evolving Competitive Landscape Telehealth and Virtual Care – An International Perspective

Game changing new market entrants are rapidly expanding the marketplace with tech and new business models. Panelists will discuss how to drive better consumer experiences, cheaper with faster outcomes with the transformational impact of solutions across stakeholders, regulatory frameworks, data protection regulations, and local healthcare systems.

NewCos - Better, Stronger, Faster

As the pace of innovation and adoption in healthcare runs at light speed, we now need to consider deployments and operationalizing tech as this lags today. Panelists will share challenges from a case use, data variability factors, how to build tools and clean data to train algorithms, workflows and what the best impact for healthcare is.

Breaking Barriers of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Digital Health

Panelists, with a combined $1B in funding and Canada’s largest software company, discuss leveraging data, modern infrastructure, advanced interoperability while enhancing patient trust to drive innovation at their companies and the industry as a whole.

The State of Data Onboarding, Interoperability and Trust

Expect to disrupt traditional buyer models of bygone policies and data access with these panelists. Consuming information and social services are now decentralized in a collaborative ecosystem. What are the obstacles to privacy policy and should we have a national focus similar to GDPR? Privacy, security and trust must meet a minimum standard set by the government. What about the digital divide? Are policy maker debates too funding focused? Learn more about consumers and the new data economy on this panel.

Consumer Loyalty in the New Health Data Economy: Fair Data Strategies, Innovation, Trust & Trends

Importance: This three-part study characterizes the widespread implementation of telehealth during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, giving us insight into the role of telehealth as we enter a stage of “new normal” healthcare delivery in the U.S.

Objective: The COVID-19 Telehealth Impact Study was designed to describe the natural experiment of telehealth adoption during the pandemic. Using a large claims data stream and surveys of providers and patients, we studied telehealth in all 50 states to inform healthcare leaders. 

Design, Setting, Participants: In March 2020, the MITRE Corporation and Mayo Clinic founded the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition (C19HCC), to respond to the pandemic. We report trends using a dataset of over 2 billion healthcare claims covering over 50% of private insurance activity in the U.S. (January 2019-December 2020), along with key elements from our provider survey (July-August 2020) and patient survey (November 2020 - February 2021).

Main Outcomes and Measures: There was rapid and widespread adoption of telehealth in Spring 2020 with over 12 million telehealth claims in April 2020, accounting for 49.4% of total health care claims. Providers and patients expressed high levels of satisfaction with telehealth. 75% of providers indicated that telehealth enabled them to provide quality care. 84% of patients agreed that quality of their telehealth visit was good.

Results: Peak levels of telehealth use varied widely among states ranging from 74.9% in Massachusetts to 25.4% in Mississippi. Every clinical discipline saw a steep rise with the largest claims volume in behavioral health. Provision of care by out-of-state provider was common at 6.5% (October-December 2020). Providers reported multiple modalities of telehealth care delivery. 74% of patients indicated they will use telehealth services in the future.

Conclusions and Relevance: Innovation shown by providers and patients during this period of rapid telehealth expansion constitutes a great natural experiment in care delivery with evidence supporting widespread clinical adoption and satisfaction on the part of both patients and clinicians. The authors encourage continued broad access to telehealth over the next 12 months to allow telehealth best practices to emerge, creating a more effective and resilient system of care delivery.

A COVID-19 Telehealth Impact Study—Exploring One Year of Telehealth Experimentation

Undermining the credibility of science and government officials, massive variation for Big Tech companies and policies across countries, and fractioning within the medical community. How do we educate the public to keep science and politics separate? What are the strategies and tactics to employ – and how fast can we move to tactical deployments? What’s the “scientific tower of babel?

The Role of Science in the World Today: Innovation, Truth and Communications

As technology continues to proliferate, patients and consumers are able to access more innovations than ever before, but are these services enough to cater to patient needs? Will there be a gap in patients adopting new platforms to “unlock” new levels of care? What barriers exist that make it more difficult for digital health startups to retain patients and what can patients do to become better healthcare consumers? Answers to these question and more will be addressed.

Optimized Patient Engagement and the Consumer Experience – How Digital Health Improves Timely Patient Engagement, Effectiveness and Experience

This fireside chat will include an up-close conversation about beds in the US being in the wrong places and how to realign assets. What are the new care team challenges and models to consider moving forward? What about transitions in care and training the workforce? Is this one area where consumers, payors and employers are in agreement? Challenges may not be clinical in nature.

Hospitals Without Walls

Viewers will gain a deep understanding of school setting and challenges schools can meet medical needs. Topics will include FERPA and HIPAA rules and regulations, proper consent for medical care in schools, understanding how enrollment and engagement affects access, reimbursement challenges and engagement with local resources and primary care clinics to identify gaps in care.

Efficiency & Outcomes of Direct Access to Physical Therapy for Musculoskeletal Disorders vs Physician-First Access in the US

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