DAY 1
08h00-10h00 - Registration of participants
- Presenting the Rwanda QOL
Centre
- Opening word
10h00-10h30: Morning tea
10h30-12h30: Quality of life, health status,
health-related quality of life, needs-based quality of
life: introduction and
overview.
12h30-14h00: Lunch
14h00-16h00: Population health, health promotion,
quality of life research and Promoting
population health.
16h00-16h30: Afternoon tea
16h30-19h00: Presenting sponsors/Funders
Welcome reception.
DAY 2
08h00-08h30: Registration
08h30-10h00: Quality of life indicators and
development of the society.
10h00-10h30: Morning tea
10h30-12h30: Introduction to health state
preference/ utility assessment
12h30-14h00: Lunch
14h00-18h00: Discussion
DAY 3
08h00-08h30: Registration
08h30-10h00: Measuring quality of life: principles,
types of instruments
10h00-10h30: Morning tea
10h30-12h30: Uses of quality of life instruments.
12h30-14h00: Lunch
14h00-16h00: -Translation and validation of quality
of life instruments: cultural adaptation,
psychometrics.
-Choosing a quality of life
instrument
16h00-16h30: Afternoon tea
16h30-18h00: Quality of life research: background,
problems, standards, perspectives.
DAY 4
08h00-08h30: Registration
08h30-12h00: Children and Youth
12h00-14h00: Lunch
14h00-16h00: Can we believe patients? Interpreting
HRQOL data.
16h00-16h30: Afternoon tea
16h30-18h00: Discussion
DAY 5
08h00-08h30: Registration
08h00-10h00: Issues and opportunities in QOL
research.
10h00-10h30: Morning tea.
10h30-11h30: QOL research: mobilizing community
action and policy change.
11h30-12h30: QOL research: impact of QOL research
on policy makers.
12h30-14h00: Lunch
14h00-17h00: What research perspectives in Rwanda,
the region, in developing
world?
17h00-21h00: Cocktail reception & social dinner and
closing ceremony.