CORE Group Global Health Practitioner Conference Fall 2017

1. Collaborating With the Private
Sector to Advance Services for
NCDs
E Anne Peterson, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President Programs , Americares
CORE Group, September 2017
Dr E Anne Peterson,
Senior Vice President Global Programs,
Americares
CORE Group, Sept 2017

2. 2
Americares work in
NCDs

3. 3
Americares NCD programs
• US:
• Diabetes Prevention Program with 7 free clinics (FL….)
• HTN – ECHO program (Chicago)
• DM/HTN Care messaging – CA
• Diabetes health coaching CT
• El Salvador:
• Direct clinical services,
• Jordan:
• Syrian refugees & host communities. Rx for education. Integrating MHPSS in
some sites
• India: mobile health urban slums of Mumbai, NCD education, Rx
• Haiti: post-earthquake Diabetes training and referral center

4. 4
Lessons Learned
• Don’t wait for rhetoric to engender funding
• Don’t’ wait for requirement to do robust results reporting

5. 5
Future Directions
• Integrate NCDs into all our program areas especially in primary care
settings
• Expand current program both ongoing and in disasters
• Use rigorous M&E to establish effectiveness of results including operations
research on scaling and sustainability