We’re pleased to announce our Global Health Practitioner Conference 2024! Join us—in person—as we come together under the theme of Healthy Communities: Sustainable Environments and continue collaborating and learning with our ever-expanding membership.

Submit your Application to Present Here!

Step 1. Create your free account on the abstract management platform. You can now log back in at any time before the deadline to edit your submission!

Step 2. 

Get ready to submit your proposal. You will need a photo and brief bio for each of your proposed presenter. 

Step 3. 

Check your email regularly for important updates and to see if your submission has been selected! 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS FOR IN-PERSON SESSIONS DUE 10 May 2024

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

Themes:

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

The conference will focus on the following technical areas:

In line with the CORE Group technical working groups, technical areas will include:

  • Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH)
  • Social and Behavioral Change
  • Nutrition and Food Security
  • Systems for Health
  • Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
  • Disability Inclusive Health
  • One Health
  • WASH
  • Other Technical areas:
  • Equitable Approaches to Research, Policy, and Programming
  • Preparedness and Response/Humanitarian Approaches
  • Multi-stakeholder partnership
  • Digital health solutions
  • Financing and investment

*Cross-cutting themes*: We encourage the inclusion of cross-cutting themes into all presentations and speaking opportunities. These themes may include disability inclusion, gender and LGBTQI+ issues, equity, racial equity and justice, social justice, human rights, socio-economic determinants of health, the Sustainable Development Goals, the intersection of climate & health, and other topics of interest.

CATEGORIES OF SUBMISSION

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Concurrent sessions are typically 60 – 90 minute sessions offering an opportunity to bring together diverse professionals, experiences, and perspectives; examine new research, evidence, strategies, and practices; and engage with peers on emerging issues or opportunities. Approved submissions will ensure a diversity of topics that can be addressed in an interactive and participatory format. Concurrent session presenters will collectively enhance participants’ Global Health Practitioner Conference experience. Submissions may be grouped on a common theme if demand for concurrent presentation is high.

Technical roundtables

Roundtables are shorter-form presentations, part of a plenary session that features approximately 15 tables hosted by different organizations and projects. Participants will rotate three times – 25 minutes each time – to different tables during the session.

Poster Presentations

Posters are visual presentations focused on a particular theme that will be presented in person during the conference. CORE Group will accept evidence-based posters with an academic or professional focus, research information, peer-reviewed work, etc.

Workshops:

Workshops will take place on October 28 and will be allocated 2 ½ to 3 hours. Workshops design should be interactive and ‘hands-on’ with opportunities for participants and facilitators to work in smaller break-out groups. Workshop objectives should help participants strengthen skills, apply learnings in case studies, scenarios or gamification with the objective of taking away tools and techniques to apply in their contexts and settings.

PITCH CHALLENGE

CORE Group’s 2024 Regional Global Health Practitioner Conference is inviting diverse, cross-sectoral teams comprising of at least 5 members to submit their innovative, sustainable idea addressing community health challenges and health service delivery targeting the most hard-to-reach populations.

This Pitch Challenge aims to bring together a diverse set of people with various backgrounds and empower them to work together, foster innovative thinking, and find solutions in community health. Three teams will have a chance to win seed funding towards their innovative ideas. To see past winners : https://coregroup.org/resources/conference-reports/pitch-challenge-winners-mentorship-program/

‘Appy Hour” Demos/ Presentations

This fast-paced, fun session will take place during the “Appy Hour” and after the Awards Ceremony, on 29 October 24. Mobile or Digital applications will be shared in an Exhibition style room. Submissions should focus on practical applications and data-driven mobile or digital platforms/applications that have benefited the health community. CORE Group has allotted approximately 15 slots for the Appy Hour Presentations.