CORE Group: Working Together in Health for Mothers, Children and Communities

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 (9:30am-11:00am )

As a leader in nutrition globally, the U.S. government is committed to enhancing health, productivity, and human potential through improved nutrition. In 2016, U.S. government agencies working on domestic and global nutrition released the U.S. Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan to harness the diverse nutrition investments across the government, and to increase inter-agency communication, collaboration, and research-sharing to catalyze progress ...Read More

Monday, September 17, 2018 (1:00pm-2:00pm )

Social & Behavior Change Working Group

Carol Dweck and colleagues have researched the impact of simple, psychological interventions with students to address motivational or non-cognitive factors that influence student academic performance. Her research shows that this can matter even more than cognitive factors, and in fact, those students who have struggled the most, have the greatest benefit from these interventions. In this Journal Club, Joel Mercado ...Read More

Thursday, August 2, 2018 (9:30am )

CORE Group

USAID is working with governments to meet health goals. Kelly Saldana, USAID’s Director of the Office of Health Systems, discusses the findings of the 2018 Acting on the Call report, highlighting progress made, and discussing areas that require additional strengthening to foster self-reliance. The session will also feature time for question and answer.Read More

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

CORE Group

Thorough, robust gender integration has proven to be a vital component of effective SBCC strategies. This webinar seeks to highlight distinct methods of gender integration throughout the program cycle for comprehensive SBCC using examples and experiences from three diverse organizations - CARE, ACDI/VOCA, and SPRING/Senegal.Read More

Thursday, May 10, 2018 (1:00pm-2:00pm EDT (GMT-05:00) )

CORE Group's M&E Working Group

Project Concern International (PCI) set an ambitious goal for 2020 in their strategic plan – to “help transform 20 million lives”.  Counting the number of beneficiaries is the easy part.  But what about measuring transformation? During this webinar, Janine Schooley shared an overview of the “Transformometer”, which was designed to measure the likelihood of transformative impact at project and individual levels.  ...Read More

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 (10:00AM-12:00PM )

SID-Washington's Health & Nutrition Workgroup and CORE Group Social and Behavior Change Working Group

This panel discussed the ways in which Social Behavior Change Communications (SBCC) has been integrated at different levels within a health system, by whom, and how, including the processes used for developing an SBCC strategy and set of interventions that are integrated.Read More

Thursday, March 15, 2018 (11:00am-12:00pm EDT (GMT-04:00) )

CORE Group's Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health Working Group

This CORE Group Webinar highlighted the outcomes from recent global health meetings (International Associate for Adolescent Health Congress and the Global NCDs Forum). For those who were not able to attend these meetings, presenters reviewed key takeaways, and encouraged a discussion of actions and thoughts moving forward.Read More

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 (10:00am -11:00am EST )

PLAN International, Advancing Synergy, NCD Child

The webinar featured three presentations about NCDs prevention, in the context of the SDGs and young people's health and outcomes of the recent Global NCD Forum, with a focus on the roadmap to the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs will be discussed. Read More

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 (11:00am-12:00pm EST )

CORE Group SBC Working Group in collaboration with the FSN Network SBC Task Force

Are we forgetting the role of socio-cognitive systems and communities in behavior change? The paper discusses a systems approach for community-centric design that details the interplay between biomedical and traditional socio-cognitive systems, as well as between "Western" and "Eastern" worldviews. The authors suggest that only by understanding the interplay between these can sustainable behavioral change interventions be designed. The authors applied the community-centric design approach to an intervention aimed at reducing neonatal mortality in Uttar Pradesh, India. Over the course of 16 months, their intervention led to a 54% reduction in NMR as well as unanticipated improvements in maternal health. Following a brief presentation of the journal article, there will be an open exchange of idea on the feasibility of implementing this approach in behavior change programs as well as the extent to which it has been successfully implemented to date.Read More

Friday, January 12, 2018 (12;00pm ET - 1:00pm ET )

CORE Group's Monitoring & Evaluation Working Group

During this webinar, Guy Sharrock (Catholic Relief Services) delved into the method of Evaluative Thinking, how to use it, and shared his experiences with ET in CRS programming around the world.Read More

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 (11:00am-12:00pm EST )

What is the role of mass media for behavior change, especially when the behavior is a complex one, like exclusive breastfeeding? And can TV spots alone change mothers' behaviors? Mass media is a logical tool for reaching enough families to have a population-wide effect on health behaviors. Yet there is a dearth of evidence on mass media’s impact on breastfeeding. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Alive & Thrive conducted an evaluation of its "talking babies" TV spots to understand whether and how they may have contributed to the rapid increase in exclusive breastfeeding in Viet Nam. The evaluation was built on behavioral theory and formative findings. It included creation, testing, and refinement of questions to measure the likely behavioral determinants. During this webinar, two of the article's authors shared what the TV spots alone did – and did not – accomplish. Following a brief presentation on the journal article, the webinar included an open exchange of ideas on the practicality of investing in mass media for behavior change.Read More

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 (10:00am-11:00am EST )

CORE Group's Nutrition Working Group

Webinar Recording Webinar Description Transform Nutrition is a consortium of five international research and development partners funded by the UK Department for International Development. It’s aim is to help stakeholders in the most-affected countries – policy-makers, civil society and business leaders – to use quality research to address undernutrition. This webinar featured two researchers who, as part of the Transform ...Read More

Thursday, November 16, 2017 (11:30am-1:00pm )

CORE Group Nutrition Working Group

Webinar Description Food aid programs are often used in places where undernutrition is a major public health challenge. The USAID-funded Food Aid Quality Review Phase III (FAQR), implemented through Tufts University, has been conducting interviews with development, nutrition, and health practitioners working on USAID-funded programs that use food aid. In these interviews, FAQR asked: Does the mix of available food ...Read More

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 (9:00AM - 10:30AM )

Webinar Description USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program & CORE Group presented this webinar on how to conduct and apply gender analysis in maternal health programming. The webinar included an introduction to Jhpiego’s Gender Analysis Toolkit, as well as presentations on analyses, findings, and applications from Liberia and Nigeria. Presenters Myra Betron, MCSP, Jhpiego, Myra.Betron@jhpiego.org Chioma Oduenyi, MCSP Nigeria, Chioma.Oduenyi@jhpiego.org ...Read More

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Acting on the Call is a continuous improvement process in USAID’s drive to end preventable child and maternal deaths. The first Acting on the Call report, released in 2014, laid out a roadmap of how USAID would sharpen its effort to achieve greater impact from the scale up of key interventions in 24 priority countries to save 15 million children ...Read More

Tuesday, July 25, 2017 (11:00am-12:00pm EDT )

The purpose of Stories-without-an-ending (SWE) is to engage community groups in discussion of various issues dealing with the health and well-being of women, children, adolescents. SWE using a problem-posing approach to share new information and ideas with community members, strengthen their critical thinking skills to analyze their past experience and new information, and promote community-wide concensus for change. During this ...Read More

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

CORE Group's SBC Working Group in collaboration with the FSN Network SBC Task Force.

This webinar discussed a study conducted to assess the sustainability of Care Group Model (CGM) in Sofala province of Mozambique.  The objective of this research was to (1) evaluate the long-term impact of the use of CGM as a health promotion strategy, (2) measure sustainability of health gains, and (3) provide evidence-based recommendations for the scientific community, funders, and implementers ...Read More

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 (02:00pm - 03:00pm(GMT-5) )

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 (11:30AM - 12:30PM )

CORE Group @ Abobe Connect

During this one-hour Journal Club, Kim Buttonow, Specialist for Social and Behavioral Change with the TOPS Program and Food for the Hungry, will discuss an evaluation of the REAL Fathers initiative, a program that addresses harmful child discipline in Northern Uganda. Violence against women and violence against children in Uganda are recognized as significant public health concerns. Exposure to violence ...Read More

Thursday, February 16, 2017

CORE Group's Reproductive, Newborn, and Adolescent Health Working Group.

Women in countries affected by conflict or crisis lack adequate access to basic health services which would otherwise save and improve lives. What is the current understanding of and global standard for responding to this need? Is the Minimum Initial Service Package enough? Do women and newborns have access to these resources? Where are the gaps? What can various stakeholders ...Read More