Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Thank you for an interactive conversation on the importance of mental health, especially in times of crisis like the current pandemic when already scarce resources are often pulled for other priorities. The conversation paid particular attention to the need for mental health services to be highly contextualized and responsive to the needs and perspectives of people with lived experience. The panel brought together speakers with diverse backgrounds and experiences from a wide variety of settings as advocates, implementers, researchers, practitioners, and lived experience navigating mental health systems. Webinar Lead: Paul Shetler Fast, MPH, ...Read More

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 (9:30am ET )

CORE Group NCD Interest Group

WEBINAR SERIES: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for over 41 million deaths worldwide each year with 85% of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In 2011, the campaign for the prevention and control of NCDs was introduced as a priority activity by the United Nations. As global health priorities transitioned from the Millennium Development Goals to the ...Read More

Thursday, August 27, 2020

CORE Group

CORE Group’s Systems for Health Working Group hosted a webinar discussion of an early innovation in designing systems strengthening within mid-size health programs. This work was initiated by Save the Children (SC) with a development project and a chronic emergency project in Kenya before the pandemic hit. Food for the Hungry (FFH) decided to test the approach through a desk ...Read More

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

CORE Group

Webinar Series: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for over 40 million deaths worldwide each year with 80% of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In 2011, the campaign for the prevention and control of NCDs was introduced as a priority activity by the United Nations. As global health priorities transitioned from the Millennium Development Goals to the ...Read More

Tuesday, June 9, 2020 (11 am- 12pm EST )

CORE Group NCD Interest Group

The first session in our noncommunicable disease webinar series focused on highlighting and understanding the progress we have made in addressing NCDs in the past decade which saw three United Nations High-Level Meetings on noncommunicable diseases. This progress was framed within the context of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 in which people living with NCDs are more likely to experience ...Read More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

GFF CSO, AHBN, Open Society Foundations, and CORE Group

Jeudi 14 Mai – 13:00 Dakar, 14:00 Brazzaville Le Groupe de coordination de la société civile du Mécanisme de financement mondial (GFF) appuyé par le Partenariat pour la sante de la mère, du nouveau-né et de l’enfant (PMNCH), le Réseau pour le budget de la santé en Afrique (AHBN), Open Society Foundations et le CORE Group ont organisé un webinaire ...Read More

Wednesday, March 25, 2020 (12:00PM )

CORE Group YPN & PAHO/WHO FCU

CORE Group’s Young Professionals Network is excited to announce our partnership with PAHO/WHO Federal Credit Union to offer The Money Talks Learning Series! This series will offer a set of practical lessons in financial management and long-term personal investments. Session #1: Debt Consolidation Debt can be hard to get out of, especially when payments on credit cards, consumer loans and student loans continue to ...Read More

Wednesday, March 18, 2020 (11:00 am )

CORE Group

CORE Group hosted the second webinar in the One Health Webinar Series examining the drivers of human-wildlife interactions in Nigeria. The webinar included a presentation by Dr. Sagan Friant, Assistant Professor at Penn State University on her past and current research programs, followed by active discussion among participants regarding community-engagement methodologies and tools to strengthen opportunities for sustained public health ...Read More

Monday, March 16, 2020 (9:00am EST )

The GFF Civil Society Coordinating Group, Africa Health Budget Network, Open Society Foundations, and CORE Group hosted a webinar to look at GFF financing, in the wider context of health financing for UHC, and to share civil society experiences of undertaking health financing advocacy. This webinar is part of a series of webinars aimed at strengthening civil society engagement in ...Read More

Thursday, February 13, 2020 (10:00am ET )

CORE Group

CORE Group’s Systems for Health Working Group hosted a webinar on the Governance and Sustainability of Community Health Worker Programs CHW programs require the direct support of a group of community members with active links to the health sector. Such groups exist in many countries, known by various names such as village health committees (VHCs), community health committees (CHCs) or ...Read More

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 (9:00am-10:00am EST )

M&E Working Group

Have you been wanting to use qualitative analysis to further understand your quantitative data? Do you want to conduct qualitative analysis but don't have a large budget? CORE Group's M&E Working Group hosted a webinar featuring WI-HER and RTI International on conducting qualitative analysis in the field.Read More

Thursday, January 30, 2020 (9:30am ET )

CORE Group

On January 30th, CORE Group hosted an thought-provoking webinar on One Health and Well-Being. Earth has existed for over 4.5 billion years but in just two human generations we have managed to place our only ‘home’ at great risk. Dr. Lueddeke described the inter-dependencies among people, animals, plants, and their shared environment towards a goal of health and well-being for ...Read More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 (9:00am-10:30am )

M&E Working Group

We all are striving to improve our data quality, analysis capacity, and measurement designs. M&E Working Group Co-Chair Todd Nitkin shared some important lessons on confidence intervals so practitioners can demonstrate real results and make sure that the change they claim is one of substance.Read More

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 (11:00 am )

SBC Working Group

CORE Group’s Social and Behavior Change Working Group held a journal club discussion on stunting.Read More

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 (9:30am ET )

CORE Group Nutrition Working Group

The CORE Group Nutrition Working Group hosted a webinar on Unhealthy snack foods, diets, and nutritional status during the complementary feeding period: a study among young children in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Availability and consumption of processed foods has grown rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), among both adults and children. While snacks provide energy during the nutritionally vital complementary ...Read More

Thursday, September 19, 2019 (11:00 am )

SBC Working Group

CORE Group’s Social and Behavior Change Working Group held a journal club discussion on gameification for behavior change. Apps and other smart tech interfaces are not the only way to use gamification in behavior change, but are the most studied examples of gamification in health and wellbeing. In this journal discussion we  looked at the specific example of a substance ...Read More

Monday, June 24, 2019 (11:00 am )

SBC Working Group

CORE Group’s Social and Behavior Change Working Group hosted a journal club discussion on women’s experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) and uptake of antenatal care in Sofala, Mozambique. This Journal Club reviewed the following learning objectives: Discuss theoretical pathways through which IPV operates and its implication Identify the bi-directional relationships between IPV and maternal healthcare service utilization in the study ...Read More

Thursday, May 16, 2019 (9:00am EST )

USAID MCSP, UNICEF, and CORE Group

On Thursday, May 16th, 2019, 9:00-10:30am EST, USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), UNICEF, and CORE Group hosted a webinar to highlight lessons from past years on the Malawi social accountability implementation experience, and disseminate recent resources in this expanding field. This webinar was intended for program planners and others working to incorporate social accountability within their community health strategies. Webinar Objectives ...Read More

Thursday, March 21, 2019 (9:30am-11:00am )

Grandmother Project - Change through Culture

In order to develop culturally-grounded programs it is important to understand the roles and influence of different family and community members related to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health. Focus on Families and Culture allows for those involved either in coordinating formative research studies or for those preparing a scope of work for qualitative community formative research. The tool was developed by CORE Group member, Grandmother Project - Change through Culture, through a small grant funded by The TOPS Program. Read More

Friday, February 22, 2019 (9:00am-10:30am )

Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group

Development strategies aimed at behavior change will miss the mark if they do not adequately identify culture and plan interventions that factor in the cultural nuances around particular behaviors. As management guru Peter Drucker once said, “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” To best serve our clients, we must go beyond mere clinical provision and sensitization to also accommodate the social culture where we work - embracing family structures, community norms, and institutional relationships. Further, to deliver quality care, we must be able to engage the input and participation of our clients as partners in improving health. This online event presented a variety of applied effective approaches to address the challenges above. Read More