Fall 2014 Global Health Practitioner Conference Booklet

OCTOBER 16 - 17, 2014 | WASHINGTON DC
STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY
HEALTH SYSTEMS THROUGH
C H W S A N D M H E A L T H
Advancing
Community Health
Worldwide
Fall 2014
#GHPC14

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CONTRIBUTORS
MCSP is the USAID Bureau for Global Health flagship
program to introduce and support high-impact health
interventions with a focus on 24 high-priority countries
with the ultimate goal of ending preventable child and
maternal deaths (EPCMD) within a generation.
www.mcsprogram.org
The CORE Group Polio Project is funded under
USAID Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-A-12-00031 to
World Vision.
www.coregroup.org/polio
Thank you to all contributors, supporters and sponsors!
CORE Group extends sincere appreciation to Planning Committee Members, Working Group Co-Chairs, Point
People, Presenters, Participants, Moderators and Facilitators, Anonymous Donors, and Sponsors.
SPONSORS
The Crown Family
Marketplace Sponsors
JSI / Advancing Partners & Communities
Edesia
Johns Hopkins University Center for
Communication Programs
USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program
Vecna Cares Charitable Trust
Hesperian Health Guides
Co-hosted Event Sponsors
Ensuring Equity for NCDs in Women's Health Throughout the Life Course:
The Taskforce on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Women’s Health
Jhpiego
American Heart Association
An Orientation to the Essential Care for Every Baby Training Module:
USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program
American Academy of Pediatrics

Fall 2014 Global Health Practitioner Conference • 2 •
WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Community Health Workers, CHWs, have been a frequently used strategy over many years by governments and NGOs
around the world to meet the health needs of populations and achieve the goals of primary health care. Recently, there has
been increased global attention to CHWs, recognizing them as an integral part of the health workforce needed to achieve
country health commitments. In part, this is due to health workforce shortages, and the call to shift tasks from higher-trained
health workers to less highly trained health workers in order to maximize the efficient use of health workforce
resources. Another driver is the commitment of governments to end preventable child and maternal deaths, a task that
can only be achieved with attention to equitable community access to health promotive, preventive and curative services.
And new mHealth tools are a third driver that provide opportunities to better support and ensure the quality of CHWs and
community health approaches.
During our meeting, we will explore the role of NGOs in strengthening health systems, from a primary health care
perspective that includes community systems, with a focus on supporting CHWs. Key themes include:
• Integrated health systems strengthening linked to community health systems
• Strengthening of community groups to support CHWs
• Harmonizing community-based human resources for sustainable health actions
• Improving CHW performance through mHealth technologies
• New Info Circuits for providing input into new ideas, activities and tools.
We are also pleased to co-host events on Friday with the NCD Taskforce to exchange new information on Non-Communicable
Diseases and Women’s Health; and with the Maternal and Child Survival Project and American Academy of Pediatrics on
their new training modules, Essential Care for Every Baby.
Many thanks to everyone who helped make this event possible: our planning committee members Alan Talens – World
Renew, Alfonso Rosales – WV, Amy Metzger – CCIH, Dan Irvine – WVI, Graciela Salvador-Davila – Pathfinder, James Bon
Tempo – JHU/CCP, Janine Schooley – PCI, Jennifer Snell – HealthRight, Kelly Kiesling – independent, Laura Raney – MCSP,
Lani Marquez – URC/CHS, Marion McNabb - Pathfinder; Mary Hennigan – CRS, and Ram Shrestha – URC; our session
presenters; our donors and table sponsors; innumerable volunteers; CORE Group management and communication staff
(Alli Dean, Michelle Shapiro); our Working Group Co-Chairs; and our conference organizer and facilitator, Lynette Friedman.
Wishing you a good conference,
Karen LeBan
Executive Director
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the conference, participants will:
1. Generate a better understanding of how NGOs can strengthen health systems with a focus on community systems,
CHWs and mHealth tools.
2. Foster substantive partnerships and linkages among our Community Health Network members and partners to
advance community health efforts.
3. Finalize CORE Group Working Groups’ FY15 workplans and provide technical updates.

PARTNER WITH CORE GROUP
CONTRIBUTORS
CORE GROUP OVERVIEW
Vision
Communities where everyone can attain health and well-being.
Mission
To improve and expand community health practices for underserved populations, especially women and children,
through collaborative action and learning.
Our Expertise
Knowledge Management
Neutral, trusted facilitation
Training & Conferences
CORE GROUP SERVES AS A TECHNICAL HUB FOR
Community Health Approaches
Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health
Infectious & Non-Communicable Diseases
Nutrition
Agriculture & Health
Interested In Exploring the Possibilities?
Email us at contact@coregroupdc.org!
Global Networking
Program Learning
Documentation & Dissemination
Cross-Cutting Approaches
Social & Behavior Change
Monitoring & Evaluation
Community Health Systems
Sustainability
Learning Collaboratives
Secretariat Models
Professional Development
Why you should partner with CORE Goup:
We were established in 1997 – over 15 years of work
Our size enables us to respond quickly with lean
budgets – a good value added for relatively low cost
Working with CORE Group enables quality linkages
and outreach to 75+ organizations that work in 180
countries, reaching 720 million people per year
Our Members and Associates include NGOs, Academics
and for-profit organizations
Our well-known, dynamic Community Health Network
gathers input and disseminate output rapidly
We do not implement programs at the field level, so
the lack of competition enables us to foster trust and
serve as a neutral broker/convener
We are seeking partnerships with:
Academic institutions to contribute to implementation
evidence of "how" an intervention works under what
conditions
Member and Associate Organizations to collaborate
in high-mortality countries to scale up life-saving
interventions
New organizations (domestically and globally) to join
in creating and diffusing community health learning
Private sector organizations to ensure essential
commodities and technologies reach the most under
served
Information technology companies to extend our
virtual learning platforms around the world

STATE OF CORE GROUP: October 2014
Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP)
CORE Group is a partner in USAID's new flagship effort to end preventable child and maternal deaths in the developing world - the Maternal and Child Survival Program. This project will accelerate the expansion of innovative, high- impact health approaches in 24 priority countries. CORE Group brings to MCSP its valuable expertise in knowledge generation, knowledge management, community health strengthening, civil society engagement, and expanding partnerships and learning.
Judy Lewis, CORE Group Board Chair, was part of a recent MCSP assessment team in Haiti. CORE Group is discussing plans to establish a Knowledge Management and Sharing Secretariat at the national level as well as with Model Referral Networks to promote best practices and innovations at the community level.
Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network
CORE Group, as part of the Technical and Operational Performance Support Program (TOPS), supported the FSN Network Knowledge Sharing Meeting from July 10 - 11, 2014 in Washington, DC, which brought together over 200 food security practitioners and donors. CORE Group also facilitated and provided content development and operational support for the USAID/Zimbabwe Knowldege Summit: Lessons Learned, which brought together 58 governemnt, donor, NGO, and UN representatives in Harare, Zimbabwe from August 19 - 21, 2014.
Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP)
At the MCHIP close-out event on June 26, 2014, with more than 400 colleagues -- including Ministers of Health from 23 countries, CORE Group Executive Director Karen LeBan presented on the new CHW guide: Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policy Makers. The guide is available at mchip.net/CHWReferenceGuide.
HIGHLIGHTS: MAY - OCTOBER 2014
CUGH Presentation
CORE Group presented on a panel about models of successful NGO/ university collaborations at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s (CUGH) 5th Global Health Conference on May 10 - 12, 2014 in Washington, DC.
Care Group Technical Advisory Group Meeting
CORE Group received a TOPS Microgrant to conduct an expert review on the scale-up of Care Groups as a behavior change strategy for improving nutrition and maternal and child health. A Care Group Policy Guide, available on the CORE Group website (coregroup.org/caregrouppolicy), was produced as an output of the meeting, and two peer- reviewed journal articles were developed.
STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE 2014 - 2019
Objectives and Examples of Progress:
1.
Strengthen our hub of community health innovation and learning, contributing to implementation science informed by practice.
*CORE Group member field experience is increasingly found in peer-reviewed literature.
2.
Increase global participation in our collaborative learning and action network to build strategic capacity.
* CORE Group Board of Directors is discussing expanded membership.
3.
Engage with priority health initiatives at global and country level, advocating for community health.
* CORE Group has new strategic opportunities through its partnership in the Maternal and Child Survival Program.
4.
Expand our impact through innovative business and governance models that build on our strengths and potential.
* CORE Group Board of Directors is developing resource diversification plans.

FY14 WORKING GROUP & INTEREST GROUP ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Working Groups: Community Child Health, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Monitoring & Evaluation, Social & Behavior Change, Nutrition, Safe Motherhood & Reproductive Health, Tuberculosis | Interest Groups: Adolescent Health, Anemia, Immunization, Maternal Child Mental Health, mHealth, Non-communicable Diseases
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Virtual Learning Series: Applying Learning Principles to our Work in the World, Part 1 & Part 2 (SBC)
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Webinar: ENGAGE-TB: Integrating Community-based TB Services into the Work of NGOs and other CSOs (TB)
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Webinar: What Factors Affect Sustained Adoption of Clean Water and Sanitation Technologies (SBC)
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Webinar: Social Capital and Maternal and Child Health in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Evidence from India (CCH)
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TAG meeting on August 19, 2014 to finalize revisions needed for the Nutrition Program Design Assistant (NPDA) tool. A finalized revised guide is expected to be released early 2015. (Nutrition)
Partnerships will continue with :
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Maternal and Child Survival Program
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World Vision to support CORE Group Polio Project communication efforts
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TOPS to support the Food Security and Nutrition Network, and Knowledge Management
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The Crown Family
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Our Members and Partners to strengthen networking and expand our impact
Please consider contributing through the Combined Federal Campaign. CFC code: 88110
CORE GROUP FUNDING - FY 2014
*Recordings of all webinars available at www.coregroup.org*
Save the Date
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Webinar: Supply Chain Management for Community Case Management: October 28, 2014; Online
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Virtual Learning Series: Applying Learning Principles to our Work in the World, Part 3: October 28, 2014; Online
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Twitter Workshop for FSN Network Knowledge Management Task Force: November 4, 2014; Washington, DC
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Experiences with Managing Consortia: Aligning Organizations; Improving Impact: November 6, 2014; Washington, DC
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MCSP CHW Forum (Invite Only): November 12, 2014; Washington, DC
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Panel at APHA - "Working together to improve community health around the globe: CORE Group": November 15 - 19, 2014; New Orleans, LA
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Workshops at The Network: Towards Unity for Global Health Annual Meeting: November 19 - 23, 2014; Fortaleza, Brazil
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Essential Nutrition Actions Training of Trainers: December 8 - 12, 2014; Washington, DC
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FSN Network Knowledge Sharing Meeting: February 2015 (Date TBA); Bangladesh
New Tools & Resources in the Works
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Gender SBC Guide (funded by TOPS Microgrant)
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Polio Response Toolkit (with CORE Group Polio Project)
We are seeking partnerships with:
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Academic institutions to contribute to implementation evidence of "how" an intervention works under what conditions.
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Member and Associate Organizations to collaborate in high-mortality countries to scale up life-saving interventions.
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Private sector organizations to ensure essential commodities and technologies reach the most under served.
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Information Technology companies to extend our virtual learning platforms around the world.
LOOKING FORWARD IN FY 2015
COMMUNITY UPDATES
Community Health Network
Each year CORE Group and our Community Health Network evolve and expand. Currently we have 53 Members, 26 Organizational Associates, and 29 Individual Associates and continue welcoming new partners. (View the full list at coregroup.org.) We would like to expand our membership to include non-US based organizations and ask that you help us identify possible organizations for membership.
Send suggestions to kleban@coregroupdc.org.
Communications & Knowledge Management
CORE Group’s website serves as a technical hub for community health learning and practices. In the last year our website traffic increased by 18.61% with almost 8,000 more unique visitors. We share information on Facebook, Twitter, and through monthly e-newsletters about new resources, events, webinars, and more. We also support 16 listservs that reach more than 8,800 registrants every month.
New Staff Update
Welcome to David Shanklin, CORE Group's Community Health and Civil Society Advisor. We also thank outgoing staff members Shannon Downey and Pinky Patel for their years of dedication and endless contributions to CORE Group.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contributors/Sponsors.....................................
Welcome Letter................................................
Conference Objectives.....................................
Partner with CORE Group................................
State of CORE Group........................................
Working Groups...............................................
Maternal and Child Survival Project................
CORE Group Polio Project................................
2014 Dory Storms Award Winner....................
Agenda.............................................................
Session Descriptions - Thursday, October 16
Opening & Plenary Updates..........................
Working Group Time....................................
Lunchtime Roundtables................................
Concurrent Sessions......................................
New Information Circuit................................
Session Descriptions - Friday, October 17
NCD Symposium...........................................
Orientation to Essential Care Training..........
Presenter Bios.................................................
CORE Group Staff Bios.....................................
“I want to keep in touch with...”......................
CORE Group Evidence-based Tools..................
Notes................................................................
Join CORE Group..............................................
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WORKING GROUPS
ABOUT WORKING GROUPS
Working Groups are the heart and soul of CORE Group’s Community Health Network
CORE Group Working Groups push the field of community health forward by focusing on specific technical and
cross-cutting issues. As the Community Health Network works to fulfill our vision of health and well-being for
underserved communities in low- and middle-income countries, Working Groups help articulate that vision
from a practical standpoint, identify barriers, and figure out how to move past them. Through Working Groups,
dedicated professionals bring their individual and organizational resources to bear to collectively generate ideas,
create knowledge, and craft responses that can show health impact on a meaningful scale.
Working Groups contribute to:
• Developing state-of-the-art tools, practices and strategies to benefit field programs
• Exchanging information related to best practices, resources, and opportunities
• Linking with academics, advocates and private resources and expertise
• Fostering their own professional development
• Building organizational partnerships and capacity
• Articulating the community health perspective in global policy dialogues and alliances
Working Groups are teams of individuals from multiple organizations interested in contributing to further
development and understanding of a technical or cross-cutting topic. The groups are self-organizing, self-governing,
and adaptive entities that transcend organizational boundaries. Working Groups develop and
implement collaborative activities aimed at improving international health and development. Working Groups
are established and maintained based on the interest of CORE Group Membership.
GET INVOLVED
If you are not already a part of a Working Group, please join the Working Group time during this conference (see
page 14 for more information). Also sign up for the related listserv at www.coregroup.org/network. By joining
a Working or Interest Group listserv, you will receive related communications and updates, and you will be able
to write directly to the group to share information and announcements, as well as solicit input on related areas
of interest.
Choose from the 8 Working Groups:
Community Child Health
HIV/AIDS
Malaria
Monitoring and Evaluation
Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health
Social and Behavior Change
Tuberculosis
Nutrition

MATERNAL AND CHILD SURVIVAL PROJECT
CORE GROUP POLIO PROJECT
About CGPP
The CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) is a multi-country, multi-partner initiative providing financial support and
on-the-ground technical guidance and support to strengthen host country efforts to eradicate polio.
Several CORE Group Members come together to implement the CORE Group Secretariat model, a time-tested
mechanism for increasing coordination and collaboration. Central to the model and to each CGPP country site is
an in-country secretariat — a small team of neutral, technical advisors, independent from any one implementing
partner, who facilitate communication, coordination, and transparent decision-making among all partners.
CGPP Erradication Efforts
Since 1999, CORE Group, in partnership with UNICEF, Rotary International, WHO, the CDC, USAID, the BMGF,
and various governments including, currently, Angola, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and South Sudan, has worked to
eradicate polio by mobilizing communities to participate in supplementary immunization campaigns, routine
vaccination services, and AFP surveillance.
While the CORE Group Polio Project has continued to build on its successes in its well-established programs, the
polio outbreak in the Horn of Africa and ongoing polio transmission in northern Nigeria have presented major
challenges to polio eradication elsewhere. In 2014, the project continued to build up activities in key areas of
northern Nigeria to full capacity and assembled a regional technical secretariat team in the Horn of Africa to
contribute to these critical areas.
CORE Group is a partner in the United States Government's new flagship effort to end preventable
maternal and child deaths in the developing world - the Maternal and Child Survival Project. CORE
Group is honored to join fellow partners Jhpiego, Save the Children, John Snow, Inc. (JSI), ICF International,
Results for Development Institute, PATH, and Population Services International (PSI).
MCSP is a global, USAID Cooperative Agreement to introduce and support high-impact health interventions with
a focus on 24 high-priority countries with the ultimate goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths
(EPCMD) within a generation. The Program is focused on ensuring that all women, newborns and children most
in need have equitable access to quality health care services to save lives.
CORE Group brings to the Maternal and Child Survival Project its valuable expertise in knowledge generation,
knowledge management, community health strengthening, civil society engagement, and expanding partnerships
and learning.
Learn more at www.mcsprogram.org.

2014 DORY STORMS AWARD WINNER
Congratulations to Dr. Pieter Ernst, 2014 Dory Storms Award Winner!
When Dr. Pieter Ernst, a native of South Africa, moved to rural, war-torn Mozambique
in the early 1990s to offer his clinical services, he saw mothers and children suffering
from diseases that were both preventable and treatable. A few years later, in
conjunction with the start of a USAID-funded World Relief Child Survival Project,
he came up with the idea for training "care groups" of village volunteers as a way
for limited numbers of project staff to maximize household contacts for health
promotion. In consultation with Dr. Muriel Elmer, a specialist in adult education who
was working in World Relief's health technical unit, what was to become the Care
Group Model first took shape.
Pieter's vision was for a model that reached every household with simple life-saving
health practices while limiting the burden on any given volunteer, for sustainability.
The first child survival project using Care Groups (1995-1999) in Gaza Province,
Mozambique, trained 1500 volunteers in 141 Care Groups who reached 34,000
children under five and women of reproductive age in a total population of 91,200 people.
Consistently strong results led to a series of successful projects, covering ever larger populations in new districts
within Gaza Province. Pieter's leadership and continual innovation to improve implementation yielded excellent
outcomes and documented impact: an independent mortality assessment of the population reached by the second
CSP measured infant and under-five mortality reductions of 49% and 42%, respectively.
By then, the Care Group Model had proven to be highly replicable, spreading to other countries and organizations.
The Care Group Difference, a guide to the model, was published in 2004 with a Diffusion of Innovation grant from
the CORE Group, contributing to increased visibility. It was highlighted in UNICEF's The State of the World's Children,
2008, as an effective method of implementing Community IMCI. Today, the Care Group Model has been implemented
by at least 23 other nongovernmental organizations in 21 countries, largely with the support of the US Agency
for International Development , a vehicle bringing improved health to some of the poorest and most vulnerable
communities in the world, and through which countless thousands
of lives have been saved.
Dr. Pieter Ernst was Project Director for World Relief Mozambique's
first 2 CSPs (1995-1999 and 1999-2003) and subsequent Expanded
Impact Project (2004-2009). For many of those years, he also spent
one day per week providing medical and surgical care, including
fistula repair, at Chokwe District Hospital. He currently advises World
Relief's community-based TB project in Gaza Province (using Care
Groups) and a USAID bilateral project in Nampula Province – when
not applying his creative energy to improve community approaches
to agriculture. Though an infrequent presence in the United States,
Pieter's pioneering work with Care Groups has influenced many
CORE Group members – and child survival beneficiaries on three
continents. Prior to working with Child Survival programs, he served
as a medical doctor in Namibia, South Africa, and Mozambique in
Community Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Outpatients
and Casualty.
Past Winners
2013: Sarah Shannon
2012: Dr. Jane Vella & Dr. Abdullah Baqui
2011: Dr. Peter Winch
2010: Dr. Ahbay Bang
2009: Dr. Henry Perry
2008: Stanley Foster
2007: Monique & Jerry Sternin
2006: Carl Taylor
2005: Dr. Robb Davis
2004: Drs. Gretchen & Warren Berggren
2003: Kate Jones
2002: David Newberry
2001: Dr. John Wyon

Join us for a
SOCIAL
NETWORKING
RECEPTION
Thursday (10/16)
5 - 7pm
Bistro Bistro
(1727 Connecticut Ave)
Appetizer Buffet
Cash Bar
Let’s continue
all the fun,
and keep the
conversations
going!

AGENDA | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
AGENDA
FINAL
THURSDAY OCTOBER 16, 2014
CORE GROUP FALL 2014 GLOBAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER CONFERENCE
8:00am – 8:30am
8th Floor Pre-Function
Breakfast & Registration
8:30am – 10:00am
Academy Hall
Welcome, Conference Overview, Announcements, and Warm-Up
Board of Directors Update
2014 Dory Storms Award Presentation; Dr. Pieter Ernst, World Relief
Plenary | Community Health Systems, Community Health Workers, and mHealth
Insights from each of the 5 Concurrent Session Leaders
10:00am – 11:00am
Locations – See Page 14
Working Group – Part 1
Each of our 8 working groups will meet to discuss current and ongoing strategic plans and other related activities.
11:00am – 11:30am
Break – Marketplace Tables Open!
Coffee & Tea Provided
11:30am – 12:30pm
Locations – See Page 14
Working Group – Part 2
Each of our 8 working groups will meet to discuss current and ongoing strategic plans and other related activities.
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Lunch
12:45pm – 1:30pm Optional Lunchtime Roundtable Discussions
Balcony B
New Global Initiative Launched to Prevent and Manage Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight
Babies
Carolyn Kruger, Project Concern International
Vista Room CORE Members Working to End Preventable Maternal and Child Deaths in Haiti
Judy Lewis, Departments of Community Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Balcony D WG Chair Meeting
Working Group Chairs Only
1:30pm – 3:00pm Concurrent Sessions
Balcony C
Improving CHW Performance through Mobile Technology: Measurement, Supervision and Data
for Decision Making
Janine Schooley, Project Concern International; Marion McNabb, Pathfinder International; Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc.; Alice Liu,
Jhpiego
Balcony E Mobile Learning Platform to Train and Support Community Health Workers
Liz Medhurst, Amref Health Africa; Caroline Mbindyo, Amref Health Africa; Noel Ramathal, Accenture
Academy Hall
Where is the “C” in Health Systems Strengthening?
Joseph Petraglia, Pathfinder International; Alfonso Rosales, World Vision US; Eric Sarriot, USAID Maternal and Child Survival
Program; Karen Cavanaugh, USAID; Amalia Del Riego Abreu, Pan American Health Organization; Ngashi Ngongo, UNICEF
Balcony D Strengthening Community Groups to Support CHWs
Ram Shrestha, University Research Council; Dan Irvine, World Vision International
Vista Room
Harmonizing Community-Based Human Resources for Sustainable Health Actions
Mary Hennigan, Catholic Relief Services; Girija Sankar, Global Health Action; Lauren Van Enk, Institute for Reproductive
Health, Georgetown University; Kristen A. Cahill, Concern Worldwide
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Break – Marketplace Tables Open!
Coffee & Tea Provided
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Academy Hall
New Info Circuits
See pages 19-22 for full descriptions
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Bistro Bistro
Social Networking Reception
Bistro Bistro | 1727 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009 | Walking distance from FHI360
Appetizer Buffet Provided | Cash Bar

AGENDA | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
FINAL
FRIDAY OCTOBER 17, 2014
ENSURING EQUITY for NCDs in WOMEN’S HEALTH THROUGHOUT THE LIFE COURSE
A Symposium hosted by the NCD Taskforce in collaboration with CORE Group
SEE PAGES 23-26 FOR FULL DETAILS
8:30am – 9:00am
Academy Hall
Breakfast & Registration
9:00am
Academy Hall
Welcome & Introductions
9:15am – 10:00am
Academy Hall
Knowledge Exchange – Roundtable Discussions
3 Rotations of 15 minute Presentations
10:00am – 10:30am
Break
Coffee & Tea provided
10:30am – 11:30am
Academy Hall
Panel I: Community Education and Mobilization
Moderated by Jeff Meer, Public Health Institute
Panelists
• Sally Cowal, American Cancer Society
• Patricia Lane, American Heart Association
• Heather White, PSI
11:30am – 12:30pm
Academy Hall
Panel II: Integrating NCDs into Clinical Services
Moderated by Silvana Luciani, Pan American Health Organization
Topics & Panelists
• Cervical Cancer Screening And Prevention, Single Visit Approach; Dr. Ricky Lu, Jhpiego
• Integrating Cardiovascular Disease Surveillance into HIV Programs; Peter Lamptey, FHI360
• Diabetes Screening And Treatment; Dr. Helen McGuire, PATH
• Integrating NCDs Treatment at the District Level; Dr.Gene Bukhman, Partners in Health
12:30pm – 1:00pm
Academy Hall
Wrap Up & Next Steps
ORIENTATION TO THE ESSENTIAL CARE FOR EVERY BABY TRAINING MODULE
Co-sponsored by the Maternal and Child Survival Program and American Academy of Pediatrics
SEE PAGE 27 FOR FULL DETAILS
1:00pm – 1:30pm
Vista Room
Optional Lunch
Selection in registration required
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Vista Room
This orientation, focused for Program Managers, will provide an orientation on the Essential Care for
Every Baby (ECEB) training module, a part of the new series of newborn health training modules
developed through the “Helping Babies Survive” Global Development Alliance.
Presented/Facilitated by Sherri Bucher, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine and USAID-AMPATH Partnership

OPENING & PLENARY | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
OPENING & PLENARY UPDATES
8:30am - 10:00am | Academy Hall
Welcome
Karen LeBan, Executive Director, CORE Group
Conference Announcements/Warm-up
Lynette Friedman, Facilitator
Board of Directors Update
Judy Lewis, Chair, CORE Group Board of Directors
CORE Group Polio Project Update
Frank Conlon, Director, CORE Group Polio Project
Dory Storms Award Presentation: Dr. Pieter Ernst (see page 9 for full bio)
Tom Davis, Chief Program Officer, Feed the Children
Rachel Hower, Health Advisor, World Relief
Community Health Systems, Community Health Workers, and mHealth: Insights from each of the 5
Concurrent Session Leaders
• Janine Schooley, Improving CHW Performance through Mobile Technology: Measurement, Supervision
and Data for Decision Making
• Caroline Mbindyo, Mobile Learning Platform to Train and Support Community Health Workers
• Alfonso Rosales, Where is the “C” in Health Systems Strengthening?
• Dan Irvine, Strengthening Community Groups to Support CHWs
• Mary Hennigan, Harmonizing Community-Based Human Resources for Sustainable Health Actions

WORKING GROUP TIME | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
Community Child Health (CCH)
Co-Chairs: Alfonso Rosales, World Vision; Alan Talens, World Renew
Part One | 10:00am - 11:00am
The CCH Working Group will explore the PVO experience with integrated health systems strengthening. They will
discuss where there is a need for a common conceptual framework that shows community-based and formal/national
health systems relationship for effective strengthening.
Joseph Petraglia with Pathfinder will present two implementation experiences that illustrate the application
of Integrated Systems Strengthening (ISS) in their programs. The first case highlights a technical approach that
encapsulates the key principles of health systems integration and the second case highlights the challenges faced in
bringing the community in the Zone of Interaction in the integration process.
Alan Talens with World Renew will show how they used the C-IMCI Framework in their community health program
(Local governance and Sustainability Framework for capacity building were added) in a Child Survival Project in
Bangladesh to create the People’s Institution model. The various linkages of the community health system (CHS)
with the formal health system, along with the other C-IMCI framework elements were aimed to increase coverage of
interventions, equity and sustainability in the project.
Part Two | 11:30am - 12:30pm
The first half of this session will be spent jointly with the Nutrition Working Group to explore collaboration efforts to
add CMAM (Community Management of Acute Malnutrition) in an integrated Community Case Management (iCCM)
package. The Nutrition WG will share findings from a recent interagency review of SAM (Severe Acute Malnutrition)
treatment through iCCM to determine steps for a possible scale-up process.
The second half of this session will revisit the Health System Strengthening Framework discussion to develop action
item(s) for the CCH Work Plan and formation of subcommittee for HSS.
HIV/AIDS
Co-Chairs: Gloria Ekpo, World Vision; Jean Claude Kazadi Mwayabo, Catholic Relief Services
Part One | 10:00am - 11:00am
The HIV/AIDS Working Group will review FY14 accomplishments and plan for FY15.
Part Two |11:30am - 12:30pm
During this session, the HIV/AIDS and TB Working Groups will meet together to discuss integration issues.
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Chair: Todd Nitkin, Medical Teams International
Part One | 10:00am - 11:00am
During the first hour, Todd Nitkin will discuss in detail the steps needed for an organization to begin utilizing the
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SMART methodology (Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transition) for nutrition and mortality
rates in their own assessments for their projects. Todd will cover ways to make this advanced methodology, which is
far more statistically accurate than previous methods used by most INGOs, feasible for any organization.
Part Two | 11:30am - 12:30pm
The second hour will be a discussion regarding what you would like to see the M&E WG concentrate on this coming
FY. This is your opportunity to have input into what the M&E WG delivers. For example, if you have an interesting
M&E need in your organization, the M&E WG might also find it interesting and help you accomplish filling that need,
to the benefit of the entire CORE community. Please join us and bring your ideas!
Malaria
Co-Chairs: Luis Benavente, Medical Care Development International; Suzanne Van Hulle, Catholic Relief Services
Part One | 10:00am - 11:00am
The Malaria Working Group will join the CCH Working Group.
Part Two |11:30am - 12:30pm
For the first half, the Malaria Working Group will join the CCH and Nutrition Working Groups to discuss opportunities
related to the integration of Nutrition and iCCM. For the second half, the WG will discuss current priorities and
strategic directions for Working Group members and finalize FY15 plans.
Nutrition
Co-Chairs: Jen Burns, International Medical Corps; Justine Kavle, PATH; Kathryn Reider, World Vision (WV)
Part One | 10:00am - 11:00am
The Nutrition Working Group will be discussing the FY15 work plan and joint initiatives with CCH and SBC WGs.
Part Two | 11:30am - 12:30pm
The Nutrition Working Group will spend the first half hour discussing potential initiatives involved with the linkage
of nutrition and iCCM with the CCH Working Group. The second half hour will be spent discussing potential linkages
with the SBC Working Group.
Safe Motherhood & Reproductive Health (SMRH)
Co-Chairs: Carolyn Kruger PCI; Tanvi Monga, ICF/MCHIP; Amy Metzger, Christian Connections for International Health
Part One | 10:00am - 11:00am
The SMRH Working Group will present newly awarded USAID projects and Global initiatives that will advance the
maternal and newborn agenda. These projects include the flagship MCSP and the Emerging Priority projects for
prevention of premature births, pre-eclampsia and post-abortion care. In addition, presentations will be given on
current global family planning projects. Discussions will center on approaches to global scale-up and how CORE
Member Organizations can become involved.The FY2015 Workplan will be shared and there will be discussions on
integration with other CORE working groups.
Part Two | 11:30am - 12:30pm
The SMRH Working Group will continue to discuss current priorities and strategic directions for Working Group
members and finalize FY15 plans.
Social and Behavior Change (SBC)
Co-Chairs: Gillian McKay, GOAL; Amelia Brandt, Medicines for Humanity; Jennifer Weiss, Concern Worldwide US
Part One | 10:00am - 11:00am
This session will focus on the application of SBC strategies within the Ebola crisis, which offers unique challenges due
to necessary limitations on human contact. We will examine a case study from the field, identify unique challenges,
and develop suggestions and strategies for addressing those challenges. The work done in this session will be recorded
and shared throughout the listserv for use in affected countries.

New Global Initiative Launched to Prevent and Manage Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight Babies
12:45pm - 1:30pm | Balcony B
Hosted by: Carolyn Kruger, Project Concern International
Every year, about 15 million babies are born prematurely and more than 1 million babies die due to complications
of pre-term birth. The newly awarded USAID Every Preemie-SCALE (Scaling, Catalyzing, Advocating, Learning,
Evidence-driven) is a strategic partnership among PCI (Project Concern International), the Global Alliance to Prevent
Prematurity and Stillbirths (GAPPS), and the American Academy for Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) to lead USAID’s global
effort to reduce newborn mortality by preventing and managing pre-term birth (PTB) and low birth weight (LBW).
Every Preemie-SCALE will scale up evidenced-based and underutilized PTB/LBW interventions with 24 priority
countries and four demonstration countries in Africa and Asia by translating evidence into action at and below the
national level, increasing capacity and performance for improved service delivery at the health facility and community
levels, overcoming bottlenecks to implementation and coverage, and increasing prioritization of PTB/LBW within
national and global policies, protocols and initiatives.
CORE Members Working to End Preventable Maternal and Child Deaths in Haiti
12:45pm - 1:30pm | Vista Room
Hosted by: Judy Lewis, Departments of Community Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
CORE Group is a partner in the new USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP). The Haiti USAID Mission
requested an assessment from MCSP in mid-August. In mid-September, CORE Board Chair Judy Lewis and Dr. Blami
Dao of Jhpiego made a second assessment. The key components of the Haiti MCSP include: national technical
assistance to the Ministry of Health (MSPP); a CORE Secretariat for maternal and child health (for knowledge
management and sharing); training for health professionals through three existing training hospitals and pre-service
education programs in midwifery; three model referral networks in USAID’s corridors; and Community Health. Judy
Lewis met with 11 of the 20 CORE Group members working in Haiti, and she will report on these meetings and the
development of a knowledge sharing secretariat. She and Dr. Dao will also discuss their observations from visits to
facilities and communities in the model referral networks. All CORE Members working, or with an interest, in Haiti
are invited to join the discussion.
WG Chair meeting
12:45pm - 1:30pm | Balcony D
All Working Group Chairs are invited to attend a lunch meeting exploring options for further support and revitalization
of the CORE Working Group structure.
LUNCHTIME ROUNDTABLES | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
Part Two | 11:30am - 12:30pm
This session will be an introduction to the Social and Behavior Change working group. In the first half hour, we
will review our 2015 work plan. This is a great opportunity to learn more about what is happening in the working
group and get involved! For the second half hour, we will combine with the Nutrition Working Group to explore
opportunities for collaboration in 2015. Potential areas of collaboration include early childhood development and
gender, but all ideas will be welcome.
Tuberculosis (TB)
Co-Chairs: Anne Detjen, The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease; Gagik Karapetyan, World Vision; Petra
Stankard, PSI
Part One | 10:00am - 11:00am | Academy Hall*
The TB Working Group will not meet during Part One. Members of the TB Working Group are encouraged to integrate
with other Working Groups at this time.
Part Two | 11:30am - 12:30pm | Academy Hall*
During this session, the HIV/AIDS and TB Working Groups will meet together to discuss integration issues.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
Improving CHW Performance through Mobile Technology: Measurement, Supervision and Data for Decision
Making
1:30pm - 3:00pm | Balcony C
Presenters: Janine Schooley, Project Concern International; Marion McNabb, Pathfinder International; Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc.; Alice Liu,
Jhpiego
This session is designed to present various examples, stimulate discussion and excitement about the potential for improving CHW
performance utilizing mobile technology, and help participants maximize their own potential for utilizing mobile technology
in their own work. A “maturity model” will be presented which will allow participants to plot their own organization’s work in
mobile technology against the model’s 5 stages of maturity, cutting across 6 domains from program design to sustainability/
strategic alignment.
By the end of this session, Participants will have:
• Heard about various ways that mobile technology is improving CHW performance and discussed and shared additional
relevant examples and ideas
• Determined how their current mobile technology efforts fit into a “maturity model”
• Explored ways of moving their own CHW performance efforts forward using mobile technology
Mobile Learning Platform to Train and Support Community Health Workers
1:30pm - 3:00pm | Balcony E
Presenters: Liz Medhurst, Amref Health Africa; Caroline Mbindyo, Amref Health Africa; Noel Ramathal, Accenture
This session will provide lessons learned from a cross-sector partnership to design, develop and deliver a sustainable, integrated
mobile learning and community health services platform to empower, train and motivate CHWs and their supervisors. Presenters
will discuss Amref Health Africa’s “Health Enablement and Learning Platform (HELP)”. HELP is an mHealth initiative developed
by a diverse multisectoral partnership that aims to enhance learning, productivity, motivation, and sustainability of CHWs to
improve community health outcomes. Driven by Amref Health Africa, the partnership includes Accenture, Safaricom/Vodafone,
Mezzanine, and the Ministry of Health (MOH) as well as end users.
• Heard about an approach to using evidence and community participation in designing an mLearning solution
• Understood what it takes to achieve sustainability in mobile learning
• Explored lessons learned in developing and managing cross sector partnerships
Where is the “C” in Health Systems Strengthening?
1:30pm - 3:00pm | Academy Hall
Presenters: Joseph Petraglia, Pathfinder International; Alfonso Rosales, World Vision US; Eric Sarriot, USAID Maternal and Child Survival
Program; Karen Cavanaugh, USAID; Amalia Del Riego Abreu, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO); Ngashi Ngongo, UNICEF
There are numerous health systems frameworks, but many structures do not take the community and household
aspects into consideration. Thus, institutions and organizations that focus mostly on community work do not
have a way to communicate their roles in the overall health systems strengthening efforts. Some PVOs are already
addressing the issues on an individual basis. Although helpful, this is still a fragmented approach. This session will
engage a panel of speakers in exploring current frameworks and involve participants in discussing the need for a
common conceptual/operational framework that shows community- based and national health systems relationship
for effective systems strengthening.
• Recognized gaps and issues to having a “whole picture” health systems narrative: facility-based (national
health system) and community-based systems linked and strengthened.
• Identified steps to address the fragmentations for integrated health systems strengthening.
• Found possibilities to incorporate individual PVO efforts in the Integrated Health Systems Strengthening to
galvanize the development of a common PVO framework and promote it at the international level.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
Strengthening Community Groups to Support CHWs
1:30pm - 3:00pm | Balcony D
Presenters: Ram Shrestha, University Research Council; Dan Irvine, World Vision International
Community health workers, professional or volunteer, require support at the community level that is often beyond
the capacity of the formal health system workforce. Community participation in and ownership of these programs
has been recognized as a critical success factor. Community group CHW program contributions can include
supervisory, motivational, representational and integrative functions - all areas that have consistently been identified
as weaknesses in CHW programs. Many country strategies have acknowledged this need, and yet capacities to
support community groups are minimal.
This session will first test participant perceptions of the potential of community groups to support CHW programming.
We will then share a case study from URC on community group impact. Finally, we will review the community
management structure framework from the MCHIP Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker
Programs at Scale document and invite feedback on it. More specifically, we will look at the potential of this framework
to be further developed in the model of the CHW-AIM tool, and invite participants to participate in a short-term effort
to develop this tool.
• Identified key operational questions regarding the implication of community groups in CHW support.
• Reviewed a case study demonstrating community group effectiveness in support of CHWs.
• Reviewed the community management structure framework from the MCHIP Developing and Strengthening
Community Health Worker Programs at Scale document and provided feedback on the further development
of the framework towards the CHW-AIM model.
Harmonizing Community-Based Human Resources for Sustainable Health Actions
Presenters: Mary Hennigan, Catholic Relief Services; Girija Sankar, Global Health Action; Lauren Van Enk, Institute for Reproductive
Health, Georgetown University; Kristen A. Cahill, Concern Worldwide
Resource-poor settings rely on volunteers and unpaid or minimally paid workers to link households with the formal
health system. In this panel we will use examples from Haiti, Sierra Leone and Rwanda to explore how international
NGOs and internationally funded donor projects can support communities and health systems to build a robust
and sustainable work force of volunteers/or paid workers to link communities with the formal health system.
Representatives from Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health; Concern Worldwide and Global
Health Action will share their experiences in harmonizing community-based human resources. Using a set of
reflection questions, participants in the session will develop a set of critical considerations for external organizations
to draw upon when developing community-based health volunteers.
• Developed a greater appreciation for the need to engage Ministries of Health, local NGOs, and faith-based
institutions in identifying innovative ways of expanding community volunteers as links to the formal health
services
• Learned about efforts to repurpose existing cadres such as Traditional Birth Attendants to achieve greater
community acceptance and use of health services.
• Compiled a set of critical considerations for external organizations to draw upon when developing community-based
health volunteers.

During the New Info Circuit you have the opportunity to choose three different tables to visit for 25-minute
presentations at each table on new and innovative topics. Review the table topics and descriptions below.
TABLE 1 | What Can mHealth Do for Nutrition?: Have Your Say on New Materials About Mobiles + Nutrition
TABLE 2 | mDiabetes in India – Promising Effectiveness Results
TABLE 3 | State of SMS Messaging; SMS as Key Resource for CHWs
TABLE 4 | Make Me a Change Agent SBC Toolkit
TABLE 5 | Utilizing Gender-Responsive Social and Behavior Change Strategies to Improve Health and Nutrition Outcomes
TABLE 6 | Where There Is No Reproductive Health Information: New Digital Platforms Equip CHWs with Tools to Improve
Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
TABLE 7 | Tips for Facilitating Organizational and Program Learning
TABLE 8 | Demo and Examples from the Field of Medic Mobile's Tools for CHWs
TABLE 9 | Non-Communicable Diseases Update
TABLE 10 | An Introduction to the CHW Reference Guide and Update from the Recent Global Health Services Research
Symposium in Cape Town
TABLE 11 | How Community Platforms Can Be Used to Achieve The Every Newborn Action Plan
TABLE 12 | ASHA Links to Post-Partum Mothers and Newborns
TABLE 13 | How to Reap Benefits & Eliminate Zombies? E-payments!
TABLE 14 | Family Planning at Your Fingertips
TABLE 15 | Organization Capacity Assessments: A Practical Anchor for Self-Driven Development
TABLE 1 | What Can mHealth Do for Nutrition?: Have Your Say on New Materials About Mobiles + Nutrition
Hosted by: Ann Jimerson, FHI 360 - Alive & Thrive
By the end of this session, participants will be able to name five innovative ways that mobile phones contribute to
improved infant and young child feeding and will have offered their own ideas for a proposed “tool” for assessing
mHealth plans. Alive & Thrive is publishing an Innovation Brief designed to help newcomers to mHealth consider
whether adding mobile phone interventions will enhance their programming in nutrition and child health. Here’s
your chance to make sure the publication is useful for CORE Group members. If you’ve worked with mobiles, we
need to hear from you about what you’ve learned. If you’re just getting started, help shape a publication and a tool
designed for folks like you.
TABLE 2 | mDiabetes in India – Promising Effectiveness Results
Hosted by: Nalini Saligram, Argoya World
Arogya World implemented a ground-breaking diabetes prevention mHealth program among one million consumers
in India. This was a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment from Arogya World with partners Nokia, Emory University,
Aetna and Johnson & Johnson. We sent text messages in 12 languages, twice-a-week, for six months, free, to one
million Indians who opted in. Effectiveness was measured with pre-versus post- comparisons in >1200 Experimentals
and Controls. The program was found to be effective – 15% more text message recipients reported adopting or
maintaining four simultaneous health behaviors – regular exercise, eating two to three fruits a day, two to three
vegetables a day and avoiding fried food. With this population-level mHealth program (2011 – 2013), we estimate we
have helped 150,000 Indians lead healthy lives. That kind of measurable impact spurs us on. Attendees will discuss
mHealth approaches for chronic disease prevention, a robust and practical research design and the elements that led
Arogya World to be recognized as a finalist for the 2014 Drucker Award for Non-Profit Innovation.
TABLE 3 | State of SMS Messaging; SMS as Key Resource for CHWs
Hosted by: Leona Rosenblum, JSI, Center for Mobile Health
Community health workers are often operating at long distances from health facilities with limited supervision and
resources at their disposal. Getting accurate information on the services they are providing, their stock levels, and
NEW INFORMATION CIRCUIT | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16

other key indicators is often a real challenge. Mobile phones have the potential to bridge the gap between the
community and the decision maker level, but most community health workers do not have access to smart phones
that can run sophisticated applications. Purchasing smart phones for CHWs can be cost-prohibitive for large scale
health interventions, and raises serious sustainability questions. SMS-based reporting systems leverage the ubiquity
of the most basic phones, allowing key data points to be transmitted quickly.
TABLE 4 | Make Me a Change Agent SBC Toolkit
Hosted by: Mary DeCoster, Food for the Hungry; Jennifer Weiss, Concern Worldwide
In collaboration with the TOPS Project and the FSN Network Social and Behavior Change Task Force, the CORE
SBC Working Group is pleased to offer a (draft) set of field-friendly SBC lessons entitled: Make Me a Change Agent
(MMCA). These lessons seek to build the skills of community-level workers, such as community development agents,
community health workers and agriculture extension agents, to be more effective behavior change promoters in their
communities. They are not sector-specific, but rather tried and true, generic skills, such as communication and story-telling,
that would help a development worker in any sector become more effective as an agent of behavior change.
Many of the lessons had already been used by individuals or organizations but have been adapted for this toolkit
and are now being offered together as a series of skill-building exercises. Come learn more about the Change Agent
toolkit and give us your feedback on how to best roll it out!
TABLE 5 | Utilizing Gender-Responsive Social and Behavior Change Strategies to Improve Health and Nutrition
Outcomes
Hosted by: Elizabeth Romanoff Silva, WI-HER LLC/USAID ASSIST Project and Amelia Brandt, Medicines for Humanity/CORE SBC Working
Group Co-Chair
What are gender-responsive SBC strategies and how do they contribute to improved health and nutrition outcomes?
Members of the CORE Group’s SBC working group will facilitate a small group discussion on this topic, building on
experience and research conducted by SBC working group members and promoting knowledge sharing among
participants to share experiences and generate learning surrounding what gender-responsive SBC strategies are and
how they impact health and nutrition outcomes.
TABLE 6 | Where There Is No Reproductive Health Information: New Digital Platforms Equip CHWs with Tools
to Improve Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
Hosted by: Robin Young, Hesperian Health Guides
The WHO estimates that only 46% of pregnant women in low-income countries have access to skilled care during
childbirth. One in ten pregnancies end in unsafe abortion (primarily occurring in developing countries) and unsafe
abortion is responsible for one in eight maternal deaths globally. In the absence of trained healthcare professionals,
and in the face of social barriers to adequate health care, accessible information about warning signs and complications
during abortion, pregnancy, and birth are vital for equipping community levels health workers and educators with
the information to improve maternal and child health outcomes in their communities. The Hesperian HealthWiki is
a free, searchable, lightweight online platform that increases access to accurate, comprehensive information about
women’s health including safe pregnancy, abortion, and birth. In the past year, the HealthWiki received 2,467,873
pageviews. In the top ten most popular pages, five address pregnancy and abortion. The most-viewed page in the
HealthWiki is “Safe methods of abortion” in Spanish (79,675 page views). Top sending countries include Mexico,
Colombia, Brazil, India, and the Philippines. We are seeking partnerships to help us document the widespread impact
of this resource.
TABLE 7 | Tips for Facilitating Organizational and Program Learning
Hosted by: Lani Marquez, USAID ASSIST Project, URC
This table will provide an overview of the concepts and techniques behind “knowledge management” and make the
case for why they can facilitate organizational and program learning for CORE members. The 25 minutes will include
a 15-minute speed consulting game. A handout will be provided describing specific KM techniques we have found
useful in health care improvement work.

TABLE 8 | Demo and Examples from the Field of Medic Mobile's Tools for CHWs
Hosted by: Jacqueline Edwards, Director of Partnerships, Medic Mobile
Medic Mobile believes that technology should be empowering rather than intimidating. They approach mHealth with
the understanding that its potential can be achieved only when people involved in healthcare delivery have input
at every stage of design and implementation. Their approach is grounded in human-centered design and the users
are at the center of everything they do. They know that greater participation means greater impact and this sets the
stage for greater scale.
At this table, they will demonstrate their tools with an interactive discussion around how they design workflows and
deploy the tools with partners in the field. Their solutions need to work on technology that is inexpensive, easy to
use, and readily available. Plus, they are committed to free, open-source platforms that can be adapted for specific
uses, with – over time – no support needed from them. The Medic Mobile platform runs on multiple devices –
including feature phones, smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers – making it possible for people throughout
the healthcare system to use it. The tools are currently focused on antenatal care, childhood immunizations, disease
surveillance, drug stock monitoring and communicating about emergencies. These are the current priority use cases
and the workflows and problems areas that the tools are best equipped to solve. Medic Mobile currently works with
over 9,000 community health workers in 21 countries.
TABLE 9 | Non-Communicable Diseases Update
Hosted by: Mychelle Farmer, Jhpiego; Christy Gavitt, independent consultant
The purpose of this info circuit presentation will be to share information about CORE Group's current investments in
non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as it relates to women's health as well as potential future activities. Participants
will learn about the important role of prevention as an effective strategy to reduce the global burden of NCDs in
women and their families. Participants will also explore the role of early intervention at the clinical level to reduce
complications of NCDs. In addition, participants will discuss program activities that can result in successful integration
of NCD prevention and control into existing women's health platforms. Finally, information will be shared about the
collaboration between CORE Group and the Task Force on NCDs and Women's Health, which will be reflected in the
half-day symposium on NCDs (Friday, October 17).
TABLE 10 | An Introduction to the CHW Reference Guide and Update from the Recent Global Health Services
Research Symposium in Cape Town
Hosted by: Henry Perry, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
This table will review the recently released Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at
Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policy Makers and discuss important findings
related to CHW programs emerging from the Global Symposium on Health Services Research held in Cape Town in
early October, 2014.
TABLE 11 | How Community Platforms Can Be Used to Achieve The Every Newborn Action Plan
Hosted by: Susan Rae Ross, SR International
In May 2014, WHA approved the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) that set targets for reductions in both newborn
and maternal deaths. Strategic Objective 4 is "harnessing the power of communities, families and parents to reach
every women and newborn." CORE members are uniquely positioned to help countries achieve this objective.
TABLE 12 | ASHA Links to Post-Partum Mothers and Newborns
Hosted by: Carolyn Kruger, Ph.D., Project Concern International (PCI)
The presentation will include the results of a recent study in Moradabad, India to improve the capacity of ASHAs
(Accredited Social Health Activist) to perform 24 hour post-partum maternal and newborn assessments and to refer
appropriately if there are complications by using a mobile phone "complications decision-making tree" application
(mHealth). In partnership with Dimagi/India, the mobile phone application enables ASHAs to identify existing or
pending complications, to take initial first aid action, and to use a referral system that includes midwives and public/
private health facilities. The presentation of results will include benefits/improvements, barriers and challenges,
lessons learned, and recommendations for scale-up.

TABLE 13 | How to Reap Benefits & Eliminate Zombies? E-payments!
Hosted by: Marcella Willis, Senior Program Manager Payment Innovations, NetHope
This table will discuss what are electronic payments, like mobile money, the benefits of adopting them in your health
program, different use cases, and how to get started and make the transition using NetHope's practical Toolkit.
TABLE 14 | Family Planning at Your Fingertips
Hosted by: Leah Elliott, APC/FHI 360
To assist health workers in their efforts to help family planning clients make informed choices about safe and effective
use of contraception, FHI 360 developed a series of easy-to-use screening checklists to help clinical and non-clinical
providers determine if a woman is medically eligible to use different family planning methods. Now, to increase
availability, these innovative checklists will soon be available at providers’ fingertips. The APC Project is in the process
of creating mobile apps based on FHI 360’s family planning checklists. Learn more about the family planning checklists
and view a demonstration of the mobile applications at this New Info Circuit table.
TABLE 15 | Organization Capacity Assessments: A Practical Anchor for Self-Driven Development
Hosted by: Ann Hendrix-Jenkins, Capacity Development Director, Health Policy Project, GRM Futures Group
Donor trends toward granting directly to in-country organizations have generated a focus on broad-based capacity
development beginning with organizational capacity assessments (OCAs). As a result, a fresh wave of tools are
available, some addressing generic capacity, with others focusing on a range of technical areas including policy and
advocacy, sexual and gender-based violence, child protection and more. A visit to this table will include an interactive
learning activity that will help you understand how and which facets of the OCA approach might prove valuable to
you and your organization. It will also include samples of the latest OCAs available. Finally—they’ll be fishing for ideas
into how they can better incorporate technology into this fresh wave of focus on OCAs.

NCD SYMPOSIUM | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
ENSURING EQUITY FOR NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN WOMEN’S HEALTH
THROUGHOUT THE LIFE COURSE
Presented in collaboration with the Taskforce on Non-Communicable Diseases and Women’s Health
Symposium Objective and Benefits
This half-day symposium will expand the knowledge of public health practitioners working in low- and middle-income
countries of the recent successful approaches to meet the growing need for NCD prevention, treatment and care
among women throughout the life course. A special emphasis will be on responses to NCDs that mobilize existing
public health knowledge, programs and service delivery infrastructure.
Specific benefits for conference participants attending this session include the following:
1. An understanding of the latest efforts by CSOs and NGOs to introduce quality integrated NCD prevention and
care for women across the life course.
2. A chance to listen and engage with experts in community-based prevention efforts for NCDs targeting women
and families.
3. Perspective on the latest lessons learned on integration of NCD screening, treatment and care for NCDs of
women at all stages in the life course.
Welcome
Mychelle Farmer, Jhpiego
Knowledge Exchange Roundtable
TABLE 1 | Addressing Cervical Cancer/HIV Comorbidity in Zambia: Integrated Mobile HCT and Cervical
Cancer Screening and Treatment
Hosted By Carol Makoane, Project Concern International
Women in Zambia are disproportionately impacted by HIV (16% for women 15-49 vs 12.3% for men). Zambia is
also estimated to have the second highest cervical cancer rate in the world with incidence of 52.8 per 100,000
women [GloboCan, Zambia Factsheet]. However, screening and treatment services are inadequate within Zambia’s
health system. Project Concern International in partnership with the Zambia Defense Forces is implementing an
integrated mobile HIV counseling and testing (HCT) and cervical cancer screening program. Key features of the
program include task shifting, telemedicine, and demand creation to increase Zambian women’s access to HIV and
cervical cancer screening and treatment. The mobile HCT and cervical cancer screening program is implemented
in 36 remote communities in Zambia, using Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid and cryotherapy to screen and treat
cervical lesions. Trained peer educators conduct demand creation campaigns before the arrival of mobile services.
Mobile team nurses screen women accessing HCT for precancerous cervical lesions; and using a digital camera to
take images of the cervix, consult with experts in provincial hospitals for diagnosis. Experts also use the digital images
for quality assurance, in-service training, and supportive supervision. Eligible women receive same-visit cryotherapy;
and HIV-positive women are referred to ART services on-site. The mobile services model has been featured as a
best practice by the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative at the recent Investing in Our Future at the US-Africa Leader’s
Summit in Washington, DC.
TABLE 2 | Exercise is Medicine: Transforming the Lives of Women and Girls
Hosted by: Maria Stefan, American College of Sports Medicine
With physical inactivity being ranked as one of the 4 major risk factors for NCDs, it’s time to place physical activity
at the top of girls and women’s health agendas. The Roundtable will explore why physical activity is the single best
health practice that girls and women can adopt to improve physical, psychological and socio-economic well-being.
The Roundtable on Physical Activity will share why physical activity is so important in creating health equity and

reducing health disparities and how physical activity improves and empowers the development, resiliency, human
potential and performance of children and women through “best practice” examples.
TABLE 3 | Insights from 10,000 Women on Impact of NCDs
Hosted by: Nalini Saligram, Arogya Worldwide
Though Non-Communicable Diseases, NCDs, are the #1 killer of women, data on women’s views on NCDs are scarce.
Data are critical for informing actions and interventions to mitigate the growing impact of NCDs. We set out to capture
the perspectives of women from around the world on the impact of NCDs on their everyday lives. Our aim is to work
with like-minded organizations and use the women’s voices to move governments to action. In 2014, Arogya World
implemented a global survey reaching 1,000 women in 10 countries, using mobile and web technologies, fulfilling a
2013 Clinton Global Initiative with partners Novartis, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, American Cancer Society,
UNICEF, Population Services International, Abt SRBI and Jana. Results show the deep impact of NCDs on women and
families everywhere – 50% of the women are caregivers, 20% have had to quit jobs to provide care, obesity is the #1
health concern for the family. Families feel deep financial pain from NCDs – 25% to 50% of the household income
is shockingly commonly spent on NCDs. And women lag behind on NCD testing – only one-third have had breast or
cervical cancer screening globally.
Attendees will discuss how organizations can use the study results to influence policymakers to take action in a post-
2015 world. Arogya World’s videos and infographics and other tools will be reviewed.
TABLE 4 | NCD Child
Hosted by: Terrelll Carter, American Academy of Pediatrics
Relatively little attention has been paid to NCDs in children and adolescents, despite a growing realization that these
illnesses occur frequently in young people and are a major cause of disability, morbidity and premature mortality.
Additionally, research shows behaviors that begin in childhood and are accelerated in adolescence are among NCDs’
major causative factors. The international development community cannot promote sustainable development
without paying attention to the impact of NCDs on children, adolescents and youth. Sustainable development for all
nations will depend upon prevention, control and mitigation measures necessary to minimize and reverse the toll of
NCDs on individuals, families and communities, across the life-course and beginning at early ages.
NCD Child is a global multi-stakeholder coalition, championing the rights and needs of children, adolescents, and
youth who are living with or at risk of developing NCDs. We work together to ensure that the issues related to NCDs,
children, adolescents, and youth are equitably addressed and prioritized in global and national health policy and
development agendas. NCD Child has continued to establish itself as a voice for the rights of children and adolescents
at risk of, living with and affected by NCDs, including efforts in raising awareness around prevention of NCDs, through
advocacy, communications, and political engagement in in the global health and development discourse. We actively
collaborate with governments, foundations, civil society organizations, private sector, youth, and academic institutions
to promote awareness, education, prevention, and treatment for children, adolescents and youth, and NCDs.
TABLE 5| NCD+: Sparking a global conversation about NCDs
Hosted by: Sarah Goltz, Sage Innovation
The NCD+ campaign is designed to connect and mobilize those affected by NCDs globally. It’s simple, fun and
communicable! Most importantly, the campaign is breaking the silence and stigma surrounding NCDs. The initiative
was launched by Sage Innovation in collaboration with the Task Force on NCDs and Women’s Health. This effort is
sparking conversations, expanding knowledge and moving the conversation around NCDs into workplaces, schools
and homes around the world.
TABLE 6 | Meeting Women’s Needs in NCD Treatment and Prevention
Hosted by: Sarah Shannon, Hesperian Health Guides
With diagnoses of diabetes, hypertension, cancer and other non-communicable disease (NCD) increasing worldwide,
health workers must be adequately prepared to anticipate shifting needs in prevention, screening, and case
management. As women are at a disadvantage to receive preventative medicine and face more economic barriers
to leading healthy lifestyles, we must consider what resources do community health workers have that can be better
adapted to meet these special needs and what support is needed. Sarah will provide more insights into what models
are most successful at meeting women’s needs in NCD treatment and prevention.

TABLE 7 | Health System Strengthening and Gender Integration
Hosted by: Kate Green, HealthRise (Abt Associates)
Abt Associates would like to share a recent example of its work to integrate NCD screening and care in Jordan,
and learn from other participants about opportunities and challenges in NCD integration as it embarks on a new
program. At the outset of the Abt-led Jordan Private Sector Project (PSP) for Women’s Health project (2005-2012),
breast cancer survival rates in Jordan were low due to late detection of the disease. Working with local partners, Abt
used a multi-pronged approach to increase early detection of breast cancer in Jordan. First, Abt increased demand
for early detection by integrating breast cancer education and screening into a community outreach program in
which community health workers conducted breast exams, taught women to perform breast self-exams, and referred
women with symptoms. Next, Abt launched a robust mass media campaign that addressed the fear of cancer and
motivated women to get breast exams. Finally, Abt strengthened the supply of screening services by providing training
in clinical breast exams to private doctors and supporting the development of national guidelines for breast cancer
screening and diagnosis. After just four years, the number of new breast cancer cases in Jordan diagnosed in the early
stages (stages 0-II) increased from about 30 percent to 59 percent.
Building on the success of the Jordan project and other work, Abt Associates has recently partnered with Medtronic
Philanthropy to launch HealthRise, a five-year, $17-million program that supports community-based demonstration
projects specifically designed to expand access to care and management of chronic diseases such as CVD and diabetes.
Both global and local in nature, HealthRise focuses its efforts in select communities in India, the United States, Brazil
and South Africa. With the aim of fostering local ownership of each country program, HealthRise engages multi-sector
stakeholders, including governments, frontline health care providers, patients and families, to better understand their
community’s unique health system and to support the implementation of innovative and strategic demonstration
projects that enable people living with CVD and diabetes to lead healthier lives. Abt Associates coordinates the
HealthRise global and country-level programs in partnership with Medtronic Philanthropy. As we move forward
with HealthRise implementation, we would like to learn from participants about other successful projects in NCD
integration and the key factors that led to good outcomes.
TABLE 8 | Health System Strengthening and Gender Integration
Hosted by: Kathleen Hill & Elizabeth Romanoff Silva, ASSIST Project (USAID, URC)
This interactive session will highlight core strategies used by the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve
Health Systems (ASSIST) Project to apply health system strengthening and gender integration approaches to improve
the quality of NCD screening, treatment and care services for women across the life course. Application of these
strategies will be illustrated through a brief case study of a program to improve NCD services in the Republic of
Georgia, highlighting approaches used to understand and address the specific NCD needs of women throughout the
life course. Brief mention, with supporting materials, will also be made to a program in Uganda and Tanzania that
has applied the Chronic Care Model and principles of self-management to improve integrated HIV/NCD facility and
community services and to a program in Ukraine to prevent, screen and reduce use of tobacco and alcohol among
pregnant women. The case studies will be used to engage participants in a discussion of cross-cutting challenges and
system and gender-focused solutions to improve and sustain women-centered NCD services.

Technical Panels
Panel I: Community Education and Mobilization
Moderator: Jeff Meer, Public Health Institute
Panel I Objectives
1. Describe community-based prevention efforts for NCDs targeting women and families, with particular focus
on low/middle income countries (LMIC).
2. Identify at least one approach to integrate and improve NCDs education for women across the life course.
3. Identify effective advocacy strategies applicable for the local or for the community level, with particular focus
on LMIC.
Panelists & Topics
• Sally Cowal, American Cancer Society
Effective Community-based Strategies for Cancer Prevention and Early Intervention.
• Patricia Lane, American Heart Association
Go Red for Women Program to Reduce Hypertension through Individual Heart Healthy Choices such as Risk
Assessments, Community Stories, Recipes, Exercises and Educational Material.
• Heather White, PSI
Community Outreach and Demand Creation to Engage Women and Their Families for A) Increasing Awareness
and Access to Screening and Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension in India through Behavior
Change Communication and Awareness and Health Provider Training; and B) Screening and Managing
Gestational Diabetes in Nicaragua.
Panel II: Integrating NCDs into Clinical Services
11:30am - 12:30pm | Academy Hall
Moderator: Silvana Luciani, Pan American Health Organization
Panel II Objectives
1. Describe new innovations in clinical care and control of NCDs in women, with priority focus on the efforts of
NGOs working in low and middle income countries (LMIC).
2. Identify effective program interventions that can be integrated into existing women’s health platforms
(maternal health, family planning, PEPFAR, etc).
3. Define critical steps to build capacity at national policy level, and within the national clinical workforce.
Panelists & Topics
• Ricky Lu, Jhpiego
Cervical Cancer Screening And Prevention, Single Visit Approach
• Peter Lamptey, FHI360
Integrating Cardiovascular Disease Surveillance into HIV Programs
• Helen McGuire, PATH
Diabetes Screening And Treatment
• Gene Bukhman, Partners in Health
Integrating NCDs Treatment at the District Level
Wrap-up and Next Steps
12:30pm - 1:00pm | Academy Hall

ORIENTATION TO ESSENTIAL CARE TRAINING | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
ORIENTATION TO THE ESSENTIAL CARE FOR EVERY BABY TRAINING MODULES
Co-sponsored by the Maternal and Child Survival Program and American Academy of Pediatrics
This orientation will provide a general overview on the Essential Care for Every Baby (ECEB) training module, a part of
the new series of newborn health training modules developed through the “Helping Babies Survive” Global Develop-ment
Alliance. The training materials are based on the latest WHO-UNICEF guidelines for essential newborn care.
The curriculum covers the period immediately after birth through the first day of the newborn’s life, until the time of
discharge and addresses all components of essential newborn care including: ensuring warmth, immediate skin-to-skin
care, early breastfeeding, cord care, eye care, immunization and Vitamin K administration. The ECEB educational
materials include an Action Plan Wall Poster, Flip Chart, Provider Guides, and Parent Guides. The orientation will be
presented by Dr. Sherri Bucher, Assistant Professor of Research, Indiana University School of Medicine and USAID-AMPATH
Partnership, Department of Pediatrics.
By the end of the orientation, participants will be familiar with the ECEB curriculum including equipment, materials,
and logistical planning requirements associated with the course as well as ways in which the ECEB curriculum can fit
within existing and future strategies for supporting newborn care training initiatives in country settings.

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Sherri Bucher, Assistant Professor of Research, Indiana University School of Medicine and USAID-AMPATH Partnership,
Department of Pediatrics
Sherri Bucher has a passion for research and providing education by which to improve maternal-newborn-child
health in resource-poor settings, as well as a long-standing interest in international public health. Dr. Bucher is an
investigator with the Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Research, USAID-AMPATH, and Helping Babies
Breathe (HBB). She is a certified international Master Trainer and Mentor for HBB on behalf of the American
Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Bucher has conducted research, training, and advocacy work in East Africa for initiatives
related to neonatal resuscitation, safe drinking water, pMTCT, and maternal and newborn health. She is a member
of the international working groups, and an Assistant Editor, for the AAP and WHO-supported simulation-based
educational and training curricula, Essential Care for Every Baby and Essential Care for Small Babies. Dr. Bucher has
lived abroad, including Kenya and Greece; currently, she spends 2-3 months per year working in Africa.
Gene Bukhman, Senior Technical Advisor, NCDs, Partners in Health
Dr. Bukhman is the senior technical advisor on non-communicable disease for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda.
In this capacity, he is working closely with colleagues in the Rwandan government to integrate services for the
long tail of endemic non-communicable diseases (such as rheumatic heart disease, epilepsy, cervical cancer,
and Burkitt’s lymphoma) into the process of health system strengthening. As part of this effort, Dr. Bukhman
is developing a strategic planning framework with more general application in countries engaging in similar
efforts. Dr. Bukhman is also an advisor to the Global Taskforce on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control
in Developing Countries. Dr. Bukhman is an expert on strategic planning for non-communicable disease control
in populations fighting against extreme poverty. His research focuses on the political and historical context of
interventions in this area, as well as the evaluation of programmatic outcomes.
Kristen A. Cahill, Innovations for MNCH, Concern Worldwide
Kristen A. Cahill, MSN, MPH is a nurse practitioner who has spent the last six years working in Sierra Leone, Liberia and N. Uganda
on health systems strengthening. She currently leads the Innovations for MNCH initiative in Sierra Leone. Kristen holds a Master’s of
Science in Nursing from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and a Masters of Public Health from the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Terrell Carter, Manager, Global Child Health Initiatives, American Academy of Pediatrics, NCD Child
Terrell Carter is Manager of Global Child Health Initiatives in the Office of International Affairs at The American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP). She manages programs focused on newborn survival, immunization advocacy, and non-communicable diseases. Mrs Carter
provides staff support for NCD Child, a global advocacy coalition addressing NCD treatment and prevention and promoting youth and
family involvement in NCD issues. The secretariat of NCD Child is housed at the AAP. Before her work at the AAP, she was a Program
Officer for the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative where she worked closely with corporate and academic partners on a large Phase 3
malaria vaccine trial across seven countries in Africa. Mrs Carter received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Sociology from Texas
Christian University and a Masters of Health Science in International Health Disease Prevention and Control and a certificate of vaccine
science and policy from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Karen Cavanaugh, Director, Office of Health Systems, USAID
Karen is Director of USAID’s Office of Health Systems. She has served in USAID since 1997 in both the LAC and
Global Health Bureaus, where she was responsible for leading USAID’s global efforts to strengthen health system
finance, governance, and operations. She was Advisor to the Health Systems Action Network, a member of the
GAVI Health System Strengthening Task Team and a member of the Inter-agency Working Group on results-based
financing for health. Karen is a pioneer in improving global understanding of and benchmarking health system
performance in low-income countries. She is a guest lecturer on health system strengthening and the changing
donor architecture for health and a frequent mentor to new global health colleagues. Karen has authored or
co-authored journal articles, books, country health system assessments, program designs and evaluations, and
training materials on a range of issues in global health, poverty alleviation, and donor coordination. She worked previously at the World
Bank, where she co-authored the Bank’s poverty report for Peru and participated in the task force that introduced new approaches to
country assistance strategies. She worked for CARE, where she was assistant director for Peru and served in Bangladesh. Karen has
conducted health consultations in more than forty countries on five continents. She is an alumna of the National Defense University’s
Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and John Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of
Public Health. She speaks French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Bengali.

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Sally Cowal, Senior Vice President, Global Health, American Cancer Society
Sally G. Cowal is Senior Vice President, Global Health at the American Cancer Society. She leads the Society’s efforts to reduce the global
burden of cancer primarily through advocacy for effective tobacco control measures; improvement of access to cancer screening,
treatment and pain relief; and collaborations with other cancer control organizations, advocates and governments. Cowal has been a
key contributor to the public health and nonprofit arenas, having helped found the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
in Switzerland and serving as its director for external relations to raise awareness of AIDS as a public health and economic issue, as
well as serving as founder, president and CEO of the Cuba Policy Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of the
benefits of expanding trade and people-to-people contact with Cuba. Cowal served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad
and Tobago, appointed by former Presidents George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton. Cowal has also served as U.S. Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State, minister counselor for public affairs at the U.S. embassy in Mexico, and counselor for political affairs at the U.S.
Mission to the United Nations. Other Foreign Service assignments have taken her from India to Colombia to Israel. She joined the
American Cancer Society most recently from Population Services International (PSI). Cowal is a graduate of De Pauw University (B.A.)
and George Washington University (M.P.A,).
Mychelle Farmer, Senior Advisor, Adolescent Health, Jhpiego
Mychelle is Jhpiego’s Senior Advisor for Adolescent Health and also for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). She is a pediatrician with
subspecialty training in adolescent medicine, who has worked for many years on programs that promote public health strategies to
improve the health of adolescents and young adults. Mychelle is a graduate of Yale University and Weill Cornell University Medical
College. She completed her training in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, and she completed adolescent medicine at
University of Maryland Medical Institution. Mychelle has been working on projects for the prevention and control of noncommunicable
diseases (NCDs) since 2011. This work began during her tenure with Catholic Relief Services and the work has expanded since joining
Jhpiego in 2013. She is the co-chair of the Task Force on NCDs and Women’s Health, and she is a leader for CORE Group’s NCDs Interest
Group.
Sarah Goltz, Principal, Sage Innovation
In 2007, Sarah formed Sage Innovation to serve as a hub where the creative, smart and skilled could collaboratively
impact the state of global health. Sage Innovation has since grown into a leading boutique consulting firm with a
proven track record in creating significant impact across clients and issues in global health. An innovator, technical
expert and advocate, Sarah has committed her twenty-year career to accelerating access to life-saving solutions
and technologies for the developing world. Building on years working in Africa and the Middle East, Sarah recently
spearheaded novel global partnerships, developed access strategies for new health technologies and designed
health programs that are scalable, equitable and lasting. Prior to starting her own company, Sarah was Director of
Advocacy at Global Health Strategies in New York and Senior Technical Advisor at the Center for Development and
Population Activities (CEDPA) in Cairo, Egypt. A Fulbright Scholar, Sarah has a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Princeton University and
Masters degrees in International Affairs and Public Health from Columbia University. She teaches global health at the Mailman School
of Public Health at Columbia University.
Kate Green, Human Resources for Health Specialist, Healthrise/ Abt Associates
Kate Greene, Human Resources for Health (HRH) Specialist at Abt Associates, has more than nine years’ experience in planning and
implementing complex donor-funded health programs in HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs),
and HRH. Her diverse experience includes managing and overseeing nursing regulation and accreditation activities in Haiti, Cote
d’Ivoire, and Swaziland. She also supports a global program, HealthRise, to expand access to diabetes and cardiovascular disease
care in Brazil, India, South Africa, and the US. Prior to Abt Associates, she worked at Partners In Health in planning and implementing
a new HIV/AIDS program in the Dominican Republic with an emphasis on community health and provider training, and managing a
health service delivery and HRH portfolio in Haiti. Ms. Greene brings both a domestic and international NGO perspective from working
extensively Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the US. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Mary Hennigan, Senior Technical Advisor – Nutrition, Catholic Relief Services
Mary Hennigan, MPH is the Senior Technical Advisor in Nutrition for CRS. A graduate of the Tulane University School of Public Health,
Mary currently serves as a CORE Group board member.
Kathleen Hill, Deputy Director, ASSIST Project (USAID, URC)
Dr. Kathleen Hill, MD is a family physician who serves as Deputy Director and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Maternal Child
Health and Family Planning Technical Lead on the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project
managed by University Research Co., LLC. In this role, Dr. Hill provides technical leadership for the adaptation of improvement
approaches to strengthen quality of care and health systems in low- and middle-resource settings. She supports colleagues, Ministry
of Health counterparts, and frontline providers in sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe to identify and overcome quality of care

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gaps at community, primary, and reference levels, using local data to measure and track quality. In 2011, Dr. Hill led a four-country
assessment of NCD screening and treatment services for women in Eastern Europe and since 2012 has supported a regional program
in Georgia to improve ambulatory and hospital NCD services. As a young adult, she worked for several years in West Africa and in 2005
moved to Niger with URC to help lead the design and scale-up of a country-wide integrated maternal, newborn and child health care
improvement program with subsequent expansion to Mali. Dr. Hill speaks fluent French and provides primary clinical care one day per
week in a Washington, DC community health center.
Dan Irvine, Senior Director of Operations – Health and Nutrition, World Vision International
Dan Irvine has worked as Operations Director for the World Vision International Health and Nutrition department
since 2007, during which time he has emphasized CHW support, and community system strengthening, as core
methodologies for achieving WVI's strategic MCHN objectives. Previously he directed the World Vision US grant
acquisition and management department, and before that spent 15 years in Africa with the US Peace Corps and
as a consultant working primarily in the agriculture sector, and in HIV/AIDS programming. Dan holds a MSc. in
Public Policy (George Mason University), a BSc. in Community Psychology (Nova Southeastern), and a certificate
in Agriculture Extension (University of South Carolina).
Peter Lamptey, Distinguished Scientist and President Emeritus , FHI360
Peter Lamptey, MD, DrPH, is an internationally recognized public health physician and expert in developing countries, with particular
emphasis on communicable and non-communicable diseases. With a career at FHI360 spanning more than 30 years, Peter has been
instrumental in establishing FHI 360 as one of the world’s leading international nongovernmental organizations in implementing HIV/
AIDS programs. Peter is a Distinguished Scientist/President, Emeritus at FHI 360 and Co-Chair FHI 360 Advisory Committee. He is based
in Accra, Ghana and provides technical and strategic leadership to FHI 360’s public and development programs including communicable
and noncommunicable diseases. Additionally, Peter is a part-time Professor of Global Non-communicable Diseases at the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) with joint appointments in the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health and
the Faculty of Public Health and Policy. He serves on the LSHTM Global NCD Advisory Board. Peter serves on the Lancet Commission
on the Future Health of Africa, the Africa Tobacco Control Committee, a Cochrane Heart Group Editor and a member of the CSIS
Commission on Smart Global Health Policy. He received his medical degree from the University of Ghana, and advanced public health
education in the US including a MPH from UCLA, a DrPH from the Harvard School of Public Health and a nutrition fellowship at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Patricia Lane, Administrative Director of Neuroscience, Bon Secours Virginia Neuroscience Institute
Patricia is currently the Neuroscience Administrative Director for Bon Secours Virginia Health System in Richmond Virginia. Pat received
her Bachelors of Science in Biology from Virginia State University, Bachelors of Nursing from George Mason University, and her Masters
of Business Administration from Regis University. Pat is on the AHA National Stroke Advisory Board and is a Spotlight Speaker for the
AHA Series on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension. She is an Ambassador for AHA and has provided numerous presentations
to organizations on cardiovascular disease in woman. Pat is a past Board member for the National Black Nurses Association and led
NBNA to receiving the Strategic Alliance Award with the outcome of over seventy chapters throughout the United States to educating
and screening over 21, 000 persons in the community on stroke awareness.
Neal Lesh, Chief Strategy Officer, Dimagi, Inc.
Neal Lesh received a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington in 1998 and a Master in Public
Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. From 2005-2009, he lived in East and Southern Africa, working
on information systems for projects including large-scale AIDS treatment programs, rural hospitals, and research
projects. He currently helps lead the CommCare project, an open source mobile application to support extension
workers in low-income countries. He co-founded Spark MicroGrants in 2009, an organization that facilitates and
funds community-led development. He helps organizes the ict4chw online discussion group.
Alice Liu, Director of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), Jhpiego
Alice T. Liu, MBA is responsible for the strategy, development and implementation of health system strengthening
ICT interventions in limited-resource environments. Ms. Liu has nine years of development sector experience in
ICTs for global health, financial services (mobile money), and agriculture. Before joining Jhpiego, Ms. Liu applied her
skills for organizations such as WHO, Rockefeller Foundation, Voxiva, FHI360, Mercy Corps, and Chemonics. Prior
to working in international development, Ms. Liu worked in the technology sector in California managing teams
to deliver multi-million dollar ecommerce, data warehouse, and customer relationship management systems
through the full project life cycle. Ms. Liu earned her MBA from Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of
Science degree in computer science from the University of California Santa Barbara.

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