The document summarizes information from the 2013 Spring Meeting of the Community Health Network. The Network's vision is for healthy communities where no woman or child dies of preventable causes. Its mission is to generate collaborative action and learning to improve community public health practices for underserved populations worldwide. It has over 70 member and associate organizations collectively reaching 720 million people. The Network facilitates working groups, shares resources through its website and social media, and holds biannual meetings to advance community health initiatives.

1. Community
Health Network
Spring Meeting
2013

2. Vision: A world of healthy communities,
where no woman or child dies of
preventable causes.
Mission: To generate collaborative action and
learning to improve and expand
community-focused public health practices
for underserved populations around the
world.

3. Without CORE Group

4. Realities of the field
With CORE Group…
making resources go
further and work better.

5. 58
• International
NGO
Members
21 • Associate
Organizations
20 • Individual
Associates

6. Members: 58
ACDI/VOCA ~ Adventist Development and Relief Agency ~ African Medical and
Research Foundation ~ AME-SADA ~ Africare ~ Aga Khan Foundation ~ American
India Foundation ~ American Friends of Guinea~ American Red Cross ~ American
Refugee Committee ~ CARE ~ Catholic Medical Mission Board ~ Catholic Relief
Services ~ ChildFund International ~ Concern Worldwide ~ Counterpart International
~ Curamericas Global~ Episcopal Relief and Development ~ Food for the Hungry ~
Freedom from Hunger ~ Future Generations ~ Global Health Action ~ GOAL~ Haitian
Health Foundation ~ Handicap International~ Health Alliance International ~
HealthRight International ~ Helen Keller International ~

7. More Members:
Hesperian Foundation ~ IMA World Health ~Institute for OneWorld Health ~
International Medical Corps ~ International Relief and Development ~ International
Rescue Committee ~ La Leche League International ~ Medical Care Development
International ~ Medical Teams International ~ Mercy Corps ~ Operation Smile~
Partners for Development ~ PATH ~ Pathfinder International ~ Physicians for Peace ~
Plan International ~ Population Services International ~ PCI ~ Project C.U.R.E~ Project
HOPE ~ Relief International ~ Salvation Army World Service ~ Samaritan’s Purse ~
Save the Children ~ WellShare International ˜ White Ribbon Alliance for Safe
Motherhood ~ World Concern Development Organization ~World Lung Foundation ~
World Relief ~ World Renew~ World Vision

8. Associate Organizations= 21
American College of Nurse-Midwives~ Christian Connections for International Health
(CCIH)~ Development Finance International (DFI)~ Edesia~ FHI 360~ Global Alliance
to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS)~ The Grandmother Project~
IntraHealth International~ Insitute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University~
ICF International~ International Union Against Tuberculosis (The Union)~
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dept of International Health~ JSI
Research & Training Institute, Inc~ Kissito Healthcare International~ Liverpool
Associates in Tropical Health (LATH) USA~ Loma Linda School of Public Health, Dept of
Global Health~ Marie Stopes International-US~ Medair~ Planet Aid~ University Research
Co, LLC (URC)~ Women’s Refugee Commission
Individual Associates = 20

9. CORE Group

10. Global Policy
& Advocacy
Global Health
Initiatives
Program Learning
& Diffusion
Community Health
Network
Technical
Working
Groups
Practitioner
Academy
70+ Members & Associates Collectively Reaching 720 Million People Worldwide
Coordination & Collaboration Building Partnerships

11. Working Groups:
Community Child Health
Community Health
Systems (CHS) Taskforce
Alan Talens, World Renew
Alfonso Rosales, World Vision
Fe Garcia, World Vision
HIV/AIDS Janine Schooley, PCI
Shannon Senefeld, CRS
*Malaria Eric Swedberg, Save the Children
*Monitoring & Evaluation Todd Nitkin, Medical Teams Intl
Nutrition Jennifer Nielsen, Helen Keller Intl
Kathryn Reider, World Vision
Safe Motherhood & Reproductive
Health
Carolyn Kruger, Helen Keller Intl
Sadia Praveen, URC
Social & Behavior Change Mitzi Hanold, Food for the Hungry
Jennifer Weiss, Concern Worldwide
Tuberculosis Gagik Karapetyan, Food for the Hungry
Petra Stankard, PSI
Devasena Gnanashanmugam, consultant

12. Interest Groups:
Adolescent Health & Wellbeing Mychelle Farmer,
Immunization Vacant
Maternal Mental Health Shannon Senefeld
mHealth Vacant
Non-Communicable Diseases Vacant

13. Diffusion
&
Program
Learning
Website
&
Listserves
Social
Media
Webinars
Joint
Products
Trainings
& SOTAS
Fall &
Spring
Meetings

14. CORE
Group
Scaling Up
Nutrition
Roll Back
Malaria
Partnership
PMNCH
Child
Survival
C2A
Global Partnerships
&
Leadership
A world of healthy communities,
where no woman or child dies of preventable causes.

15. MNCH
Care Group
Model
CCM Essentials
Guide &
Graphic
C-IMCI
Framework
Taking Care of
Baby Flipbook
Nutrition
Essential
Nutrition
Actions (ENA)
Nutrition
Program
Design
Assistant
(NPDA)
Positive
Deviance
/Hearth
Guide
M & E
Knowledge,
Practice,
Coverage (KPC)
Training
Manual
Lot Quality
Assurance
Sampling
(LQAS)
Guide
Partnership
Defined
Quality (PDQ)
Guide
Behavior
Change
Designing for
Behavior
Change (DBC)
Curriculum
Barrier
Analysis
Guide
TB
Community-
Based TB
Programming
Guide
Program Planning & Technical Resources

17. World Relief creates Care Group
Model. WR/Food for the Hungry
pioneer model in Mozambique
M & E data → Model works!
Policy Impact:
USAID
(CSHGP, FFP)
UNICEF
42%
U5MR,
682 lives
saved
WR refines,
expands use of the
Model; publishes
how-to guide
Johns Hopkins
University
validates data in
peer-reviewed
journal
CORE Group involves many
organizations to create “How To”
tools, collect impact data, define
approach, influence policy.
Higher than
average
reduction in
under 5
mortality
FH adapts,
expands use of the
Model (CS, Title II)
From innovation in the field…
… to LARGE SCALE IMPACT
Over 20 NGOs Adopt Model in 20+ Countries

18. Spring Meeting 2013 Tag:
#cgspring
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