WHAT:
CORE Group Fall Meeting 2013:
"Social Accountability, Health Equity and Empowerment"

Join the meeting to gain access to the latest ideas and tools in community health, and share yours as well!

For more information on the meeting—including registration—click here. Information on all sessions can be found here.

And for details on the MCHIP supported sessions, scroll below:

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Pre-meeting Session One:
Introducing: Two New Resources for Community Health Worker Programming

Please join Core Group for a session dedicated to discussing the some of the latest materials for improving and advancing community health worker (CHW) programming and scale-up. Two new products: A Decision-Making Tool for CHW Program Development and Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: Guidance for Program Managers and Policy Makers will be introduced and discussed by lead authors and contributors from the USAID-supported ASSIST Project (Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems) and MCHIP.

The pre-meeting session will allow for a more in depth orientation, key highlight overview, and participatory discussion on how policy makers and stakeholders can use these tools to strengthen their steering role in developing national CHW programs or integrating and scaling existing programs. Authors welcome input and contributions from session participants toward the continued expansion and improvement of these dynamic tools so they will provide maximum support and accessibility.

PRESENTERS:

• Steve Hodgins, Senior Technical Advisor for Newborn Health, Save the Children/MCHIP
• Henry Perry, Senior Associate, Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University/MCHIP
• Ram Shrestha, Senior Quality Improvement Advisor Community Health and Nutrition, USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) - URC
• Allison Annette Foster, Senior Advisor and Team Lead for Health Workforce Development, USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) - URC

WHEN:
Date: Tuesday October 15th, 2013
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

WHERE:
FHI 360 Conference Center
1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20009

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Directly after CORE Group Fall Meeting 2013:
Multisectoral Anemia Partners Meeting

Anemia is a major contributor to maternal, newborn, and child death as well as compromised cognitive development and economic productivity. As anemia has multiple causes – increased iron requirements within the 1,000 day period, iron deficiency, malaria, hookworm, HIV, diarrhea and other infections – it is critical to adopt integrated and multisectoral approaches to preventing and controlling anemia across partners and programs. An increased focus on the multiple causes of maternal and child anemia will result in more harmonized and integrated implementation of prevention and treatment efforts.
 
The USAID-led multisectoral Anemia Task Force Secretariat is hosting this Multisectoral Anemia Partners Meeting to bring together practitioners, partners, and government representatives to identify ways to work together across sectors within countries to address the multiple causes of maternal and child anemia. The meeting will provide a platform for the sharing of the latest evidence and tools by technical experts, for fostering collaboration and coordination, and for informing specific scale up strategies in targeted geographical areas. Through leveraging partners’ work and exploring best practices and lessons learned around multisectoral anemia programing, participants will have an opportunity to further engage with collaborative efforts and help advance global targets to decrease anemia and reduce maternal and neonatal deaths, and improve health, productivity and economic development.
 
(The Anemia Task Force is led by a Secretariat including CORE Group, FANTA-3, MCHIP, and SPRING and involving multiple sectors within USAID.)

WHEN:
Friday, October 18th, 2013
8:30 am – 3:00 pm

WHERE:
FHI 360 Conference Center
1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20009