Texas Children’s Global Health Network, in partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine, hosted its first-ever virtual Research. Art. Innovation. Scholarship. Education (RAISE) Symposium from June 28 to July 2, drawing more than 500 registered participants from more than 20 countries across the world.
Sponsored by the Abbvie Foundation and carrying the theme, “Forging Ahead: Maintaining Excellence through Teamwork and Innovation,” the RAISE symposium aimed to catalyze the exchange of ideas through a showcase of innovative abstracts and interactive sessions. The event sought to enhance education and research skills through workshops, foster a culture of scholarship and promote a holistic approach to global health through arts and wellness. To see a montage of photos, click here.
RAISE was also a celebration of the work of the Global Health Network that highlighted how complementary arts, the humanities, and science and medicine can be. The symposium kicked off with virtual exhibits featuring the talent of artists and authors across the network, which were available for asynchronous viewing. VoiceThread, an online exhibit platform, enabled participants, authors and artists to engage in discussion.
Organized by the Global Health Scholarship Community of Practice (CoP) Program, RAISE was intended to help authors sharpen their skills and nurture their confidence to share their scholarly work. As part of capacity enhancement, the CoP Program facilitated workshops and 20 peer coaches supported authors in preparing their abstracts for submissions, accepted oral presentations and E-posters at the symposium.
In total, the symposium showcased 48 poster presentations, 31 oral presentations and 101 pieces of artwork. There were more than 10 hours of live programming curated based on the art and abstract submissions, and scholarly works presented in multiple formats.
RAISE participants voted for their favorite artwork and E-poster, which were recognized during the closing award ceremony. One Foundation Showcase Project from the mini-workshop session was selected to advance into the Project Incubator session, an interactive capstone event where participants collaborated in teams to show off creative problem-solving skills and help push the project forward.
Since the RAISE Symposium, several abstract submissions have been accepted to other international conferences, including Paediatrics HIV 2021, HepHIV Conference – Lisbon and IAS 2021. The following artists and authors earned recognition at the event:
Abstracts
- Outstanding Oral Presentation
- Reason for late 1st HIV test among exposed infants in Hoima region- a root cause. Analysis
- Emmanuel Mugisa, et al.
- Baylor Foundation Uganda
- Continuity of HIV treatment through community drug delivery during COVID-19 lockdown
- Rogers Ssebunya, et al.
- Baylor Foundation Uganda
- Adverse childhood experiences and HIV treatment outcomes
- Steven Masiano, et al.
- Baylor Foundation Malawi
- Reason for late 1st HIV test among exposed infants in Hoima region- a root cause. Analysis
- Outstanding Innovative Oral Presentation
- Interdisciplinary wellbeing program
- Amy Benson, et al.
- Global Health Network
- Third line program updates and antiretroviral resistance patterns in Eswatini and Malawi
- Sarah Perry, et al.
- Baylor Foundation Eswatini
- Brigid O’Brien
- Baylor Foundation Malawi
- Interdisciplinary wellbeing program
- Foundation Showcase: Outstanding Incubator
- Improving health communication to HIV patients during COVID-19
- Baylor Foundation Lesotho
- Outstanding Incubator Feedback Team
- Baylor Foundation Uganda
- Foundation Showcase: Outstanding Presentation
- Visual screening program in children and adolescents
- Fundación Baylor Argentina
- Outstanding E-poster presentation
- Prevalence of stunting in the nutritional recovery center of Manaure, La Guajira, Colombia
- Spencer Rivadeneira, et al.
- Fundación Baylor Colombia
- Caregivers perception on pediatric LPV/r Formulations
- Chacha Gesase, et al.
- Baylor Foundation Tanzania
- Development of a well-child visit program
- Andrea Imsen
- Fundación Baylor Argentina
- Tuberculosis prevention and treatment
- Ruth Mbwanji, et al.
- Baylor Foundation Tanzania
- Food vulnerability program
- Yesica Arzamendia
- Fundación Baylor Argentina
- Prevalence of stunting in the nutritional recovery center of Manaure, La Guajira, Colombia
Artwork
- Outstanding photography
- Harold David Brito Ortega
- Outstanding sculpture
- Baylor Uganda Creative Arts & Crafts Skills Innovation
- Outstanding Craft
- Tatiana Voslovan
- Outstanding Jewelry
- Baylor Uganda Creative Arts & Crafts Skills Innovation
- Outstanding Textile
- Joan John Masimbusi
- Outstanding Drawing and Painting
- Denise-Andreea Osman
