Name of Author/s

Title of Abstract

Dr Isatta Wurie, Dr Nellie Bell, Dr Lucy Atieno

Sheik Kamara, Paul Toma, Dr Gladys Anyo, Dr F Beynon, Dr C Dugan, Dr Mustapha, Doris Harding, Dr Matt-Lebby

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE PATTERNS AT a Tertiary Healthcare Facility in Sierra Leone
ODCH and PCMH

Presenter: Dr Michael Kamara, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Tel: +23230678424. Email: Michael.Kamara@lshtm.ac.uk.

Names of authors: Moses Badio, Edouard Lhomme, Mark Kieh, Abdoul Habib Beavogui,

Stephen B. Kennedy, Seydou Doumbia, Bailah Leigh, Samba O. Sow, Alpha Diallo, Daniela

Fusco, Matthew Kirchoff, Monique Termote, Renaud Vatrinet, Deborah Wentworth, Helène

Esperou, H. Clifford Lane, Jerome Pierson, Deborah Watson-Jones, Céline Roy, Eric

D’Ortenzio, Brian Greenwood, Genevieve Chêne, Laura Richert, James D. Neaton, Yazdan

Yazdanpanah and the PREVAC study team.

Partnership for Research on Ebola Vaccination (PREVAC): protocol of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 clinical trial evaluating three vaccine strategies against Ebola in healthy volunteers in four West African countries.

National Emergency Medical Service: Mr Sorie Samura, (presenting author sorie.samura@kcl.ac.uk); Mr Abdul Rahman Wurie; Mr Abu Bakar Thorodor Jalloh; Mr Moi Tenga Sartie; Mr Sam Massaquoi; Mr Thaimu Bangura; Miss Hawa Lansana. Ministry of Health and Sanitation: Dr Matthew J. Vandy; Dr Sartie Kenneh Welbodi Partnership: Miss Sophie Bright; Dr Venetia Goodhart Department of Women and Children’s Health King's College London: Dr Katy Kuhrt, Dr

Alexandra Ridout, Professor Andrew Shennan. Department of Women and Children’s Health

Test of scale of CRADLE Vital Signs Alert device and training to improve maternity care in Sierra Leone: evaluation of adoption and effect on maternity referrals

PRESENTING AUTHOR: ABDUL KARIM BAH, COMAHS-USL, +232 78 601288, Karimsununu90@gmail.com.

CO-AUTHOR: DR. OLUFEMI ISSAC SMALLE

COVID-19 VACCINE ACCEPTANCE AMONG CLINICAL YEAR STUDENTS AT THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES (COMAHS-USL).

Alhaji U. N’jai

1 Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences and Department of Biological Science, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

2 Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA

3 Project1808, Inc., Freetown, Sierra Leone

Infectious Disease Epidemics at the Nexus of Geography, Indigenous Systems, Historical Factors, and the Political Economy of West Africa

Rugiatu Jalloh, College of Medicine and Allied Health Science (COMAHS) Freetown, Sierra Leone, +23230398617/+23276102104, rugiatuc@yahoo.com

Co-author: Dr. Amadu Sesay

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT DURING PREGNANCY AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN 18-45 YEARS AT THE PRINCESS CHRISTIAN MATERNITY HOSPITAL (PCMH) FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, OCTOBER 2020.

Lansana Hassim Kallon* (lansanah.kallon@comahs.usl.edu/ lansanahassim@gmail.com), Emma Tiange Gbaoh, Haja Ramatulai Wurie, Ph.D. COMAHS-University of Sierra Leone. +23278543860

Health systems resilience in fragile and shock-prone settings through the prism of gender equity and justice: implications for research, policy, and practice

Presenting author: Paul Thoronka, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) USL, +23288713089, paulthoronka@gmail.com

Names of co-authors: Dr Sulaiman Lakoh

Predictors and linkage to care of lost to follow-up of HIV patients at Connaught Hospital.

NAME: ABDULAI JAWO BAH

Tel: +23275181371 and E-mail: abah@qmu.ac.uk/abdulaijawobah@yahoo.com

PHD STATUS: FULL TIME PHD STUDENT: 2018-2021

INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT (IGHD)/QMU/COMAHS/USL

PAPER ABSTRACT

FINAL YEAR OF MY PHD (THIRD YEAR)

Idioms of distress and explanatory models for perinatal women in Sierra Leone: implications for developing measurements and interventions

AUTHOR: Adima Bernadeth Lahai

INSTITUTION: College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone.

PHONE NUMBER: +23279068806

Email address: adimabernadethlahai@gmail.com

Co-authors: Onome Thomas Abiri, Valerie John-Cole.

Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of pregnant women towards antenatal care at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital Freetown Sierra Leone.

PRESENTING AUTHOR: Alhaji Sununu Bah, COMAHS-USL, +23278960277, Sykebah92@gmail.com

CO-AUTHORS: Dr. Joseph Sam Kanu And Dr. Pharm Onome Abiri

Determinants of adherence to antihypertensive medications among hypertensive patients in freetown using Morisky medication adherence scale(MMAS-8)

Dr. Jusufu Hindolo Tonya Musa

Mass Communication Division

Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone

+23276507160, tonyamusa2007@gmail.com

ANALYSIS OF THE PREDICAMENT OF INFORMATION POLLUTION IN COVID 19 RESPONSE

Alhaji N’jai, Sallieu Samura, Abdul A Kamara, Lily Anna Miatta Kainwo, Patricia Conteh, Jennyfer Ambe, Joseph A Lawrence Kamara

1 Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, 4 Directorate of Health Securities and Emergency, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone, 5 Department of Gender and Development Studies, 6 Project 1808, Inc, Sierra Leone 7 Safe Mother and Childhood Survival Research Initiative, Northern Nigeria

Covid-19 Vaccine Perceptions in Western Area, Sierra Leone

Name: Ahmeda Kadianna Kalla-Kalokoh

Institution: College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences(COMAHS)

Email: kadianna54@gmail.com

Co-author : Dr Issac O Smalle

Reasons for delay in presentation of breast cancer patients at a tertiary hospital in Sierra Leone

Presenting author:

Dr Frank Baiden

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Frank.Baiden@lshtm.ac.uk

Co-authors:

David Ishola 1,2 , Daniela Manno 1 , Muhammed O. Afolabi 1,2 , Babajide Keshinro 3 , Viki

Bockstal 3 , Baimba Rogers 2,4 , Kwabena Owusu-Kyei 1,2 , Alimamy Serry-Bangura 2,4 , Ibrahim

Swaray 2,4 , Brett Lowe 1,5,6 , Dickens Kowuor 1,2 , Thomas Mooney 1,2 , Elizabeth Smout 1,2 , Brian

Köhn 1,2 , Godfrey T. Otieno 1,2 , Morrison Jusu 1,2,4 , Julie Foster 1 , Mohamed Samai 4 , Gibrilla

Fadlu Deen 4 , † Heidi Larson 1,7 , Shelley Lees 1 , Neil Goldstein 3 , Katherine E. Gallagher 1 ,

Auguste Gaddah 8 , Dirk Heerwegh 8 , Benoit Callendret 3 , Kerstin Luhn 3 , Cynthia Robinson 3 ,

Maarten Leyssen 3 , † Brian Greenwood 1 , Macaya Douoguih 3 , Bailah Leigh 4 , † Deborah Watson-

Jones 1,9 on behalf of the EBL3001 Study Group

1. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

2. EBOVAC Project, Kambia, Kambia District, Sierra Leone

3. Janssen Vaccines and Prevention, Leiden, The Netherlands

4. College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown,

Sierra Leone

5. KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Coast, 80108, Kenya.

6. Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

7. Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

8. Janssen Research & Development, Beerse, Belgium

9. Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza,

Tanzania.

Safety and long-term immunogenicity of the two-dose heterologous Ad26.ZEBOV and MVA-BN-Filo Ebola vaccine regimen in adults in Sierra Leone: a combined open-label, non-randomised stage 1, and a randomised, double-blind, controlled stage 2 trial

Felixtina Jonsyn-Ellis (Prof. PhD) University of Management and Technology

Tel: +232 78873055

Email: fedjonsyn@gmail.com , felixtina.jonsyn-ellis@unimtech.edu.sl

Patrick Unisa Taylor (Prof. PhD), Alpha Omar Leigh (MSc), Ansu Ansumana Samura

ENGAGING THE HEALTH AND NUTRITION SECTORS IN ADDRESSING THE MYCOTOXIN CHALLENGES IN SIERRA LEONE USING ICT

Ishmael I. T. Jalloh, Onome T.Abiri, Michael Lahai.

*lead presenter

1 jaykabba66@gmail.com, COMAHS-USL, Sierra Leone

EVALUATION OF QUALITY OF LIFE, ADHERENCE AND PREDICTORS AMONG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS RECEIVING HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL MEDICINES IN THREE HEALTH FACILITIES IN FREETOWN.

Alhaji U. N’jai, Lily Anna Miatta Kainwo, Andrew O Charles, Mohamed Vandi, 3 Ali Wurie, Margret O. Lamunu, 3 Mukeh Fahnbulleh

1 Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences and Department

of Biological Sciences, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, 2 Project 1808, Inc,

Sierra Leone, 3 Directorate of Health Securities and Emergency, Ministry of Health and

Sanitation, Sierra Leone, 4 World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Emergency Preparedness in Response to 2021 Ebola Virus Disease Resurgence in Guinea –Successes and Lessons Learnt from A Model Incident Action Plan (IAP)

Manso Mohamed Koroma, Leonard Varny, Alhaji U. N’jai

koromamanso2010@gmail.com/+23276694762/+23277658434

1 Department of Biological Sciences Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone,

2 Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine and Allied sciences, University of Sierra Leone, 3 Faculty of Basic and Health Sciences, Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and

Technology

The impact of mass drug administration (MDA) on the prevalence and intensity of Soil Transmitted Helminths (STHs) in Bombali District, Sierra Leone.

NAME: FODAY UMARO TURAY

INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone

PHONE NUMBER: +23277975797/078844237

EMAIL: turay.fodayumaro@gmail.com

NAMES OF CO-AUTHORS: Dr. Onome T. Abiri, Dr. Joseph Sam Kanu, Pharm. Abdulai Jawo Bah, Dr. Stephen Sevalie, Dr. Mohamed Bawoh and Prof. Mohamed Samai

Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Suicidal Tendencies among Pharmacy and Medical Students and their Coping Strategies at the College Of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone.

Presenting author: Mr Sorie Samura, Referral Coordinator Manager, National Emergency Medical Service (NEMS), samura@mohs.gov.sl, +232 76 776513

Co-authors:

1. Dr Isata Wurie – College of medicine and Allied Health Sciences.

2. Dr Benedict Gannon -UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team

3. Dr Daniel Younkee – King’s College London

4. Dr Fenella Beynon – King’s Sierra Leone Partnership

5. Dr Chris Dughan- King’s Sierra Leone Partnership

6. Miss Dorie Harding- Ministry of Health and Sanitation

7. Mr Unisa Sesay – Ministry of Health and Sanitation

8. Mr Aliecious Kamara – Ministry of Health and Sanitation

Pathogen Detection by Multiplex PCR using the Filmarray (Biofire) in Diarrhoeal Samples Sent to Connaught Laboratory

Name: Regina Bash-Taqi, Institute for Development (IfD)

Phone: + 232 76 582172

Email: rbashtaqi@ifdsl.org

Co-authors: Beryl Reindorf, Andrew Dauda, Florence Bull, Martha Kanu, Alhaji Sawaneh

Religious Leaders in Sierra Leone perspectives on family planning (Commissioned by the Christian Health Association of Sierra Leone – CHASL)

Sister Betty Sam, Welbodi Partnership

Test of scale of a novel Vital Signs Alert device to improve maternity care in Sierra Leone: evaluation of delivery and implementation

Presenting author: Mr Sorie Samura, Referral Coordinator Manager, National Emergency

Medical Service (NEMS), Ssamura@mohs.gov.sl, +232 76 776513

Co-authors:

National Emergency Medical Service: Mr Abdul Rahman Wurie, Chief Executive Officer

(CEO), Mr Abu Bakar Thorodor Jalloh, Director of Operations, Mr Moi Tenga Sartie-

Training & Quality Assurance Manager, Mr Sam Massaquoi – Director of Finance & Administration, Mr Thaimu Bangura – M&E Officer, Miss Hawa Lansana– Senior Call Centre Supervisor, 

Ministry of Health and Sanitation: Dr Matthew J. Vandy, Director of Hospital and Ambulance Services, Dr Sartie Kenneh, Deputy Chief Medical Officer.

Welbodi Partnership: Miss Sophie Bright, Dr Venetia Goodhart

Kings College London: Dr Alex Ridout, Dr Katy Kuhrt, Professor Andrew Shennan. Department of Women and Children’s Health, King’s College London

Test of scale of CRADLE Vital Signs Alert device and training to improve maternity care in Sierra Leone: evaluation of adoption and effect on maternity referrals

Presenting Author:

Dr Moses, Program Director, Directorate of Reproductive Health, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, +232 76 32 43 54, franqoline@gmail.com

NIHR CRIBS: Capacity. Research. Innovation. Building maternity Systems. Simple, scalable innovations & research capacity building to improve maternal health in Sierra Leone

Presenting author: Frank Baiden, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine &

College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone.

Email: frank.baiden@lshtm.ac.uk. Telephone: +232 77 970 515

Co-authors

Suzanne Fleck 1 , Bailah Leigh 2 , Philip Ayeko 1,3 , Daniel Tindanbil 1 , Tuda Otieno 1 , Bolarinde Lawal 1 , Mattu Tehtor 2 , Mariam Rodgers 2 , Lazarus Odeny 4 , Mary H Hodges 5 , Mustapha

Sonnie 5 , Mohamed Samai 2 , David Ishola 6 , Brett Lowe 1, Deborah Watson-Jones 1,3 , Brian Greenwood 1 .

Malaria and helminth infections in the Mambolo Chiefdom of rural northern Sierra Leone

Name: Noah Sesay, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences – University of Sierra Leone.

Phone number: +23278 830 588

Email Address of presenting author: noahsesay6@gmail.com

Co-authors: Onome Thomas Abiri, Joseph S Kanu, Foday Umaro Turay, Alhaji Sununu Bah and Sulaiman Lakoh.

POINT PREVALENCE STUDY OF ANTIBIOTIC USE AT THE PRINCESS CHRISTIAN MATERNITY HOSPITAL (PCMH).

Leonard B.K. Varney and Alhaji U. N’jai

Prevalence of Hepatitis B Co-infection with HIV Among Antenatal Care Pregnant Women at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Angus Fayia Tengbeh

Affiliation: PhD Candidate, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK.

The implementation of the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) policy in Sierra Leone: Dynamics, challenges, and opportunities faced by policy implementers at the national and sub-national levels.

Shirley L.V. Williams and Alhaji U. N’jai

Reproductive Health Sequelae of Female Ebola Virus Disease Survivors in Sierra Leone

Presenting author

Suzanne Thomas, King’s Global Health Partnerships – Sierra Leone, +23276956816, suzanne.thomas@kcl.ac.uk

Co-authors

Eugene Conteh, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, COMAHS, USL

Joseph Edem-Hotah, Faculty of Nursing, COMAHS, USL

Rosemarie Finda Ngongou, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, COMAHS, USL

Developing as teachers in health professional education: an action research study in Sierra Leone

Authors: Marta Patiño Rodriguez, Tamba Abdulai, Anna Fruehauf, Desmon S Kamara, Paul Brima Bangura, Michael Mazzi, Samuel Mills, Abdulai Jalloh, John Bawell Thomas, Kumba Tekuyama, Leah Blezard, John Suluku, Michael Mhango.

Presenter: Tamba Abdulai. M&E officer. Partners in Health. Email: tabdulai@pih.org. Phone number: 088594614.

Operational research evaluation of an Intervention for New Diagnosis of TB (MIND-TB) in Kono District, Sierra Leone.

(Presenting Author): Teddy Foday-Musa

“Civil War Peace Agreement: The Management of Spoilers in Armed Conflict Negotiations – The Case of Sierra Leone”

Presenting author: Mangenda Kamara MA, MPhil pending, Institute of Gender Research and Documentation, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone Co-author: Lucy November RM, MSc. Department of Women and Children’s Health, Kings College London.

2YoungLives: Saving lives and promoting wellbeing of adolescent girls and their babies in Sierra Leone through mentoring.

Samba Moriba; Mohamed Peps Kallon; Allieu Shamgbeh Mansaray; Prince Charles Brainard Freetown Teacher College, Jui

Baseline Survey on Teachers’ Skills and Pupils’ Learning Outcomes

Samba Moriba; Prince Charles Brainard Freetown Teacher College, Jui

Teacher Perception of the Effectiveness of Technology-Enabled in Teacher Professional Development

Presenting author: Foday Boima. Research and Integration Manager. Partners in Health. Sierra Leone. Phone number: 030388978. Email: fboima@pih.org.

Authors: Jean Gregory Jerome 1* , Marta Patiño 1 , Yusupha Dibba 1 , Foday Boima 1 , Gerald Young 3 , Emily Dally 2 , Chiyembekezo Kachimanga 4

Affiliations:

1. Partners In Health, Sierra Leone

2. Partner In Health Boston MA USA

3. Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone

4. Partners In Health, Malawi

Barriers to outpatient healthcare access among rural residents of Kono District, Sierra Leone

Presenting author: Emmanuel Y Nyama. Community Health Officer. Partners in Health. Sierra Leone. Phone number: 030397526. Email: enyama@pih.org.

Authors: Marta Patiño Rodriguez 1 * Emmanuel T Nyama 1 Chiyembekezo Kachimanga 1 , Patricia Suluku 1 , Michael Mhango 1 , Marta Lado Castro-Rial 1 , Daniel Lavalie 2 , Musa Bangura 1 ,

Sahr M Kanawa 2 , Neil Gupta 3

Affiliations:

1. Partners In Health, Sierra Leone

2. Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone

3. Partners in Health, Boston MA USA.

Experience of the first hepatitis B program in rural Sierra Leone: one year of successes and challenges.

Samuel Saidu, PhD student at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). Research Assistant ARISE, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, +23278555104, samuel.saidu@usl.edu.sl, 330872@lstmed.ac.uk.

Dr Joanna Raven, Lead supervisor, LSTM, joanna.raven@lstmed.ac.uk

Dr Lana Whittaker, Co-supervisor, LSTM, Lana.Whittaker@lstmed.ac.uk

Dr Haja Ramatulai Wurie, Off site supervisor, COMAHS, haja.wurie@usl.edu.sl

Understanding the health and wellbeing of young people in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone: A community-based participatory study

Presenting authors: Anthony Mansaray (LSHTM) & Mahmood Bangura (COMAHS)

Co-Author: Luisa Enria (LSHTM) Contact: Anthony.Mansaray@lshtm.ac.uk number: 076817907 / 0796263388

Social Perspectives on Emergency Vaccine Deployment: Lessons from ethnographic research in the EBOVAC Salone Trials