“Healthy Communities: Sustainable Environments”

The Global Health Practitioner Conference (GHPC) is CORE Group’s flagship annual conference.

2024 will commemorate 26 years of CORE Group collaboration and learning!

CORE Group is a leader in community health working to end preventable maternal, newborn, and child deaths around the world. Through collaborative action CORE Group promotes and safeguards health in communities and creates models for reaching the most marginalized populations.

Implementers, academics, donors, private sector, and other community health advocates convene in this multi-day, content-rich meeting that features knowledge sharing and skills-building sessions led by CORE Group’s Technical Working Groups and Interest Groups, state-of-the-art updates on maternal and child health, dialogues on community health, Working Group planning, and networking.

All presentations will take place in-person at the conference venue in Nairobi, Kenya at the Safari Park Hotel and will address the following themes:

Communities, Climate and Collaboration

Conference Objectives

  • Increase knowledge of conference participants in multi-sectoral technical areas of community health
  • Strengthen partnerships amongst CORE Group members and other stakeholders in the region to advance health policies, principles, and programming
  • Foster participant connections through networking and professional engagement to build healthy communities worldwide and achieve health equity

#GHPC24 aims to bring together stakeholders to discuss equitable solutions for pressing health needs due to the interface between Communities, Climate, and how Collaboration will improve health, enable quality programs, and advance coherent policies for Primary Health Care and beyond. 

Conference Themes will focus on:

COMMUNITIES and their health. We will examine how community health workers, community engagement,  community-based surveillance, and community approaches, can promote health, provide health services, prevent disease, and prepare for future outbreaks and health emergencies.
 
CLIMATE and our environment, and how agriculture, animal health, food security, and climate change affect our future health and well-being.
 
COLLABORATION between communities, practitioners, governments, private sectors, and multi-stakeholders from different technical areas and how we can share best practices and work better together for improved health outcomes, in the development and humanitarian contexts.