Tuesday, July 27, 2021 (9:00-10:30 a.m. ET )

CORE Group Disability Inclusive Health Technical Advisory Group

CORE Group’s Disability Inclusive Health TAG Co-Chairs hosted a workshop to identify key action steps to build a roadmap for disability-inclusive COVID-19 vaccine distribution. The workshop featured a panel of experts on social and behavior change, vaccine service delivery and last mile distribution, and disability inclusive health, including field-based experts able to comment on current COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Ensuring equitable ...Read More

Thursday, June 24, 2021 (9:00 a.m. ET )

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Episode 1 of the Vaccine Confidence Live Series: Protecting Communities by Transforming Vaccine Hesitancy to Confidence After the rapid development of the COVID-19 vaccines and subsequent rollout, there has been an infodemic of misinformation circulating about COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy, reducing public trust in getting vaccinated. The media and other communications companies play a critical role in providing vital ...Read More

Thursday, June 17, 2021 (9:00am ET )

CORE Group Young Professionals Network

Presenter Dr. Joan Casey, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Dr. Casey received her doctoral degree from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2014. Dr. Casey is an environmental epidemiologist who focuses on environmental health, environmental justice, and sustainability. Her research uses electronic health records and ...Read More

Thursday, June 17, 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic forced many health care workers and public health professionals who develop and implement interventions to reconsider options for self-management of care for people living with non-communicable diseases. With people unable or unwilling to visit health facilities on a regular or as-needed basis, self-management of care became a critical and crucial component of care during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...Read More

Thursday, May 27, 2021 (10:00am ET )

CORE Group Nutrition Working Group

Malnutrition and disability disproportionally affect children living in low- and middle-income countries. They are also intertwined, with malnutrition driving disability and disability making children more at risk for being malnourished. Children with disabilities and their families encounter cumulative hardships, such as stigma, food insecurity, and limited access to appropriate care and nutrition services, without the presence of a global pandemic. ...Read More

Thursday, April 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced countries and health facilities to close and move to telehealth visits when possible. Not surprisingly, we have seen delays in care in many countries. Sadly, these delays have been especially detrimental on people living with chronic conditions, noncommunicable diseases, and injuries. Many providers and facilities have adapted practices and process in real-time throughout the pandemic to meet, as best as ...Read More

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 (12:00PM )

CORE Group YPN

Thank you for joining CORE Group’s Young Professionals Network (YPN) in our first event of the year, a webinar on “Giving Effective Video Presentations” led by Arika Pierce. During a time when online and pre-recorded presentations are the norm, giving engaging and interesting presentations is key. This session provided attendees with tips and tricks to keeping your audience engaged in ...Read More

Friday, April 23, 2021

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EARTHDAY.ORG’s theme for Earth Day 2021 is Restore Our Earth™, which focuses on natural processes, emerging green technologies, and innovative thinking to restore the world’s ecosystems. A One Health approach is needed to achieve Earth‘s Recovery and our Healthy Recovery. One Health is a multisectoral, transdisciplinary approach that promotes the interconnections between the health of humans, animals, plants, and the planet we share. CORE Group’s One Health Interest Group ...Read More

Monday, March 29, 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic presents unprecedented challenges to nutrition and health service continuity across the globe, placing millions more children at risk of wasting and death. To manage risks and continue to provide lifesaving treatment, governments and organizations have adopted and scaled up a range of adaptations to community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programs. This webinar presented preliminary findings from ...Read More

Friday, November 20, 2020

Webinar Leads: Diana Vaca McGhie, Director, Global Advocacy, American Heart Association, Jeremiah Mwangi, Executive Director, Reach, Bistra Zheleva, Vice President of Global Strategy and Advocacy, Children’s Heartlink Presenters: Dr. Andrea Beaton, Pediatric Cardiologist, Cinncinati Children’s and Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, Department of Pediatrics Dr. Mahesh Kappanayil, Professor Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences Mr. Jeremiah Mwangi, Reach Ms. ...Read More

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

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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

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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 )

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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 )

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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