Core Group

Equity in Health: Ensuring Access, Increasing Use

Baltimore, MD
May 10-13, 2011

CORE Group’s Community Health Network hosted 217 participants from 94 organizations, making it our most extensive Spring Meeting ever. Plenary, concurrent and Working Group technical sessions took place from May 10-13, 2011, in Baltimore, Maryland.

A new program element added to the dynamic nature of this year’s meeting. As a partner on USAID’s TOPS project, CORE Group is overseeing the launch of the new Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network. By dovetailing an FSN Network event with our established Community Health Network
gathering, we were able to bring together a new set of stakeholders to explore the intersections of health, nutrition, agriculture, and more.

The FSN Network hosted its first Spring Technical Meeting on Monday, May 9. The next day, the Community Health Network scheduled topics of mutual interest to both the child survival and Title II communities. Participants and invited experts explored the roots of poverty, formative research in nutrition, and integration of gender, agriculture and nutrition in programs.

The meeting theme of equity reflects on the Community Health Network values of health for all. Several dialogue-based sessions explored the complementary equity themes of access and use, including how to: take successful approaches to scale, negotiate dense urban communities, strengthen as well as lengthen the reach of health systems through community health workers (CHWs) and technology, work with adolescents, use a rights-based framework, and engage the community.

View the meeting report, agenda and presentations from the various days with the following links: