8:15 – 8:45

Registration and Coffee

8:45 – 8:50

Welcome

Arianna Legovini, Manager, Development Impact Evaluation, World Bank Group

8:50 – 9:40

Accelerating Health Innovation and Progress through Impact Evaluation

Akinlawon Oyemakinde, Director of Planning, Research, & Statistics, Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health

Paul Romer, Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President, World Bank Group

Roberta Gatti, Chief Economist for Human Development, World Bank Group

Moderated by Arianna Legovini, Manager, Development Impact Evaluation, World Bank Group

Part 1: Making Services Available

9:40 – 10:00

Community Volunteers and Patent Medicine Vendors in the Fight against Malaria: An Experimental Evaluation

Pedro Carneiro, Professor, University College London

10:00 – 10:20

Improving Access to Maternal Health Care Services: Evaluating the SURE-P Maternal and Child Health Project

Marcos Vera-Hernandez, Associate Professor, University College London

10:20 – 10:40

Coffee break

10:40 - 11:30

ACTION ITEM: What Should We Be Scaling Up and How?

Usman Yusuf, Executive Secretary, Nigeria National Health Insurance Scheme

Hong Wang, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

William Brieger, Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Noel Chisaka, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank Group

Moderated by: Aliza Marcus, Senior Communications Officer, World Bank Group

Part 2: Service Consistency and Quality

11:30 – 11:50

Improving Midwife Retention with Monetary and Non-Monetary Incentives: An Experimental Evaluation

Pedro Rosa Dias, Associate Professor, Imperial College London Business School

11:50 – 12:10

Improving Quality of Care at Primary Health Care Centers: An Experimental Evaluation

David Evans, Lead Economist, World Bank Group

12:10 – 13:10

Lunch and debate (starting at 12:30)

12:30 – 13:10

ACTION ITEM: Are additional resources necessary to improve the quality of care?

Two debaters will go head to head to argue opposing views. Each presenter will be given two times four minutes to argue their case. The audience will vote on the “winner” using clickers.

Adanna Chukwuma, Young Professional, World Bank Group

Ezinne Eze-Ajoku, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University

Moderated by David Evans, Lead Economist, World Bank Group

Part 3: Information, Behavior Change, and Productivity

13:10 – 13:30

Changing Norms and Behaviors through Entertainment TV

Abhijit Banerjee, Professor, MIT

13:30 – 13:50

Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity: Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment Among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters

Andrew Dillon, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

13:50 – 14:30

ACTION ITEM: How Do We Mainstream Testing and Learning in Public Policy?

Akinlawon Oyemakinde, Director of Planning, Research, & Statistics, Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health

Tim Evans, Sr. Director for Health, Nutrition, & Population, World Bank Group

Moderated by Arianna Legovini, Manager, Development Impact Evaluation, World Bank Group

14:30 – 15:15

Q&A and Closing

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Meeting number: 736 320 482

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