October 2-3, 2008
AED Conference Center, Washington DC
Thursday, October 2
Day Facilitator: Fe Garcia, World Vision and Dora Ward, CORE Polio Partners Project
Welcome
Moving Maternal and Child Health Forward: New Opportunities
Participants learned about and had a chance to discuss platforms for MCH engagement at the country level and with the American public.
Panel discussants:
Al Bartlett, USAID MCH Advisor; Mary Beth Powers, Save the Children Knit One, Save One Campaign Chief
Al Bartlett, USAID MCH Advisor presented an overview of progress of major global initiatives including: The Clinton Global Initiative, G8, UNICEF's Catalytic Initiative, Deliver NOW, and the U.K'.s. International Health Partnership. Although progress has been slow in many of these initiatives, Bartlett urged attendees not to give up hope.Mary Beth Powers, from Save the Children gave a background and overview of the organization's Knit One, Save One Campaign, which had knitter's all over the U.S. working to keep babies warm by crafting caps for newborns.
MCH Legislative Update
Andrew Barrer, US Coalition for Child Survival Executive Director
Mr. Barrer gave an update on the current count of legislators now supporting Child Survival legislation and progresses being made in foreign assistance reform and appropriations.
Setting Priorities and Optimizing Benefits: Where are the Communities?
Stan Foster, Emory University with Henry Perry, Future Generations as Moderator
In a world where goals are set by global actors and funders, communities, the designed beneficiary of the initiatives, are seldom the equal partners necessary for success. Does Alma Ata hold the key to the Success or Failure for Achieving the Global Goals?
Demonstration of New Community Tools in Emergency and Pandemic Preparedness
Robert Kaufman, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; Ann Hendrix-Jenkins, Consultant; Murray Trostle, USAID; Ricardo Echalar, AED; Gregory Pappas, InterAction with Kathryn Bolles, CORE Group as Moderator
This session presented an overview and progress-to-date of the Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness (H2P) global Initiative. Speakers demonstrated new health tools underway for pandemic influenza preparedness at the district and community-level.
Publishing Roundtable
Peter Winch, JHU; Houkje Ross CORE Group; Jim Ricca CSTS+
This session provided an overview of the things to consider when seeking to publish an article in a public health journal. Elements discussed included: developing a focus for your article, writing an abstract, working with field staff to gather data and information, space limitations, and working with an editorial review board.
Workshop CCM Essentials: A Guide for Program Manager's Chapter 11: Quality Assurance and Supportive Supervision
Shannon Downey, CORE Group; Emmanuel d'Harcourt and Katie Haxall, IRC; Paul Crystal, BASICS; Katie Senauer, MSH; Salim Sadruddin, Save the Children; Magdalena Serpa, Africa 2010
This session provided an opportunity to provide feedback on the Quality Assurance chapter of the CCM Essentials Guide. Participants shared their related experiences and lessons learned related to the topic.
CORE Group is still accepting comments on the CCM Guide until February 2009. To learn how you can submit comments, please go to:
CCM Field Guide
Friday, October 3
Day Facilitator: David Shanklin, Christian Children's Fund
Presentation of Dory Storms Award to Dr. Stan Foster
Henry Perry, Future Generations and Kathryn Bolles, Save the Children
Henry Perry presented the Dory Storms Award to Dr. Stan Foster. Kathyrn Bolles gave a personal account of her experiences with Dr. Foster while attending Emory University and noted how he has continued to play a mentoring role for her as she progresses through her career.
Pictured below: Dr. Foster recieves the Dory Storm Award. Stan & Henry Perry with Stan's former students at the meeting.
Highlights and Opportunities: Reports from CORE and Working Groups
Karen LeBan, Executive Director of the CORE group gave an overview of the organization's work over the last year, future directions, and evolving interest from new organizations wishing to join the community. Working group chairs gave highlights of recent activities within each group and invited attendees to learn more by attending their working group in the afternoon session.
Opportunities for Integration: Infectious Diseases and MCH
Michael MacDonald, USAID with Janine Schooley, Project Concern International as Moderator
This presentation gave an overview of issues related to integrating infectious disease and MCH with a focus on malaria. Discussion revolved around opportunities for bringing the clinical/therapeutic community together with the community-based primary health care community for more effective collaboration on prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Also discussed: funding trends, challenges and concrete opportunities for integration.
Measuring the impact of community involvement on health
Susan Igras, Georgetown University; Nichole Cheetham, Advocates for Youth with Abigail Beeson, CARE as Moderator
This presentation gave an overview of a framework that the Interagency Working Group on the Role of Community Involvement (chair organizations include UNFPA and CARE) developed to outline the process of social change and to monitor health impact. While the framework was designed for use in the field of adolescent sexual and reproductive health, it can easily be adapted for use in maternal and child health.
LAC Public-Private Partnerships
Elizabeth MacGregor-Skinner, 4th Sector Health
Participants learned about opportunities for collaboration in Latin America and possible partnerships with corporations.
Lunch
Roundtable: Attendees learned about new CSHGP projects, Nazo Kureshy and Elaine Menotti, USAID; Jennifer Yourkavitch, CSTS+hosted.
Working Group Time - Planning
HIV/AIDS · IMCI · Malaria · Monitoring and Evaluation · Nutrition · Safe Motherhood / Reproductive Health · Social and Behavior Change · Tuberculosis
Attendees joined a Working Group to connect with colleagues across organizations and contribute to the expansion of state-of-the-art community-based approaches to technical topics.
Special Presentation: New Findings on Handwashing and Newborn Health
Jim Tielsch, JHSPH; John Borrazzo, USAID; Steve Wall, SNL
In a recently published study, birth attendant and maternal handwashing with soap and water in rural Nepal were associated with a 41% lower mortality rate among neonates. This panel discussed the research findings as well as programmatic implications for the newborn health and handwashing communities.
Wrap up and Closing
Tom Davis, Chair, CORE Board of Directors
Tom presented on the importance of beliefs in dictating personal behavior, noting that "What people believe can strongly affect what they do and are willing to do." As CORE Group progresses through its strategic planning process, it will carefully examine both internal and external beliefs to ensure it can move forward with success.
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