Humanitarian-Development Task Force Meeting (Online)

CORE Group's Humanitarian-Development Task Force

DATE
March 20, 2019
TIME
9:30 AM
Virtual Participation Available
The Co-Chairs of CORE Group’s Humanitarian-Development Task Force (HDTF) invite you to join the next HDTF meeting.
The meeting will be organized as follows:
  • 9:30 to 9:40 – Welcome and Introduction: Jesse Hartness, Co-Chair
  • 9:40 to 9:50 – Update on HDN Landscape, Case Studies, and Guidelines: Laura Tashjian, CORE Group
  • 9:50 to 10:10- HSS Case Studies: Eric Sarriot, Save the Children
  • 10:10 to 10:50 – BRANCH Consortium and Implications for the Nexus: Zulfiquar Bhutta, SickKids Foundation
  • 10:50 to 11:00 – Updates on HDN Initiatives and Fora: all
Presenters:
  • Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is the Inaugural Robert Harding Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, and Founding Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University. He also holds adjunct professorships at several universities including Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Dr. Bhutta is a Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan, co-Chair of the Maternal and Child Health oversight committee of World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region, and Chairman of the Coalition of Centres in Global Child Health. As current President of the International Pediatric Association, he is a leading voice for health professionals supporting integrated maternal, newborn and child health globally.
  • Dr. Eric Sarriot has over 25 years’ experience in community health and health systems research and practice in vulnerable international settings, through non-profit, government and private sector work. He has a strong program and systems evaluation experience, notably the co-development and implementation of organizational assessment tools for district/province health offices and local non-governmental health organizations. He is currently a Senior Health Systems Adviser in the Department of Global Health at Save the Children USA.
  • Laura Tashjian is a passionate global health professional specialized in gender sensitive programming and participatory community-based approaches to maternal health, education and nutrition. As Program Manager at CORE Group, she leads the Humanitarian-Development Task Force and cultivates related networks to strengthen the nexus between emergency responses to protracted conflict and transitions into recovery. She has multi-level program and research experience in South Asia and Africa and strives to support, co-create and inspire communities of action, change and responsibility throughout her work. Laura holds an MA from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with concentrations in humanitarian studies, conflict resolution and gender.
Facilitator:
  • Jesse Hartness is a public health specialist with over 15 years of experience in healthcare policy, administration, programming and emergency response. Having joined Save the Children in 2006, Jesse has responded to health and nutrition emergencies in over a dozen countries, including responses to historic floods in Pakistan, civil war in Cote d’Ivoire, drought in Niger, famine in Somalia, Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, Ebola in Liberia, and Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. Jesse leads a 30-member team responsible for delivering emergency health and nutrition assistance across 30+ countries. Jesse is one of the Co-Chairs of CORE Group’s Humanitarian-Development Task Force.