JUST RELEASED: The CORE Group Secretariat Model video
CORE Group's Secretariat model has met success in 13 countries to fight malaria, polio, pandemic flu, and improve maternal and child health. Click to watch and learn more.
CORE Group Spring Meeting 2012
CORE Group's Spring Meeting 2012 was a success! Check out the program guide and presentations. Read more »
Partner with CORE Group
As we have grown and evolved, so has CORE Group’s range of partnerships. Our areas of expertise are valued more than ever in proposals, on teams and within project strategies. Read more »
CORE Group's Secretariat Model
Equity in Health
Why Community Health?
Why CORE Group?
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Welcome to CORE Group
CORE Group's vision is a world of healthy communities, where no mother or child dies of preventable causes. We work towards this vision by bringing together our 50+ member organizations and network of partners to generate collaborative action and learning to improve and expand community-focused public health practices for underserved populations around the world. CORE Group makes a difference both as an independent not-for-profit organization and as the home of the Community Health Network.
Watch the CORE Group Overview.
CORE Group Spring Meeting 2012
This year, CORE Group’s Spring Meeting of the Community Health Network tackled the theme of Demystifying and Using Data for Community Health Impact. 225 participants from 89 organizations and 14 countries gathered over five days in Wilmington, Delaware to address a range of technical issues related to designing, delivering and assessing community level programming in low and middle income countries.
Click here to learn more and view presentations.
Partner with CORE Group
Knowledge management; neutral, trusted facilitation; global networking. Convener of 70+ member NGOs and associates, universities, advocates and others in our Community Health Network- a group that reaches over 720 million people a year. Leadership in program and learning collaboratives including documentation and dissemination. Technical hub for community health, maternal, newborn and child health, infectious and non-communicable diseases, nutrition, social and behavior change, monitoring and evaluation, equity, program quality, sustainability and scale. Learn more about how to partner with us.
New Membership Fee Structure
To address small organizations’ financial needs, attain greater financial stability and organizational sustainability a new fee structure will take place starting January 2012. Learn more
Dr. Abhay Bang on Community Health
In 1985, Drs. Abhay and Rani Bang founded SEARCH (Society of Education, Action, and Research in Community Health) in their hometown of Gadchiroli, India. With the mission to "work with marginalised communities to identify their health needs and develop community empowering models of health care to meet these health needs". SEARCH's model is credited with reducing child mortality as much as 75% in the developing world.
Learn more about Dr. Bang's life and work from his inspiring article "Sevagram to Shodhgram: Journey in Search of Health for the People"
Featured Resource:
Scaling-up the Community-Based Health Workforce for Emergencies
This Joint Statement was developed by the Global Health Workforce Alliance together with the IFRC, UNHCR, UNICEF and WHO. It aims at drawing attention to the vital role played by CHWs in emergency risk management; promoting the scale-up, training and involvement of CHWs; and reinforcing the community-based health workforce.
Dory Storms Child Survival Recognition Award
In 2001, the CORE Group inaugurated the Dory Storms Child Survival Recognition Award to recognize an individual for his or her vision, concern, intelligence, commitment, and love for people in the developing world.
This year, the award was given to Dr. Peter Winch, Professor and Director of the Social and Behavioral Interventions Program in the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Click here to learn more about Dr. Winch.