Final round of co-creation meetings in Peru
The Peruvian COHESION team visited the communities of Pingola and Sicacate (Piura region) as well as the regional office of the Ministry of Health in Sullana on 14-17 April 2018 to hold the last co-creation sessions to complete the intervention design. The goal of...
leer másCOHESION at the Geneva Health Forum 2018
The Geneva Health Forum (GHF) organised every two years aims to bring together different stakeholders in Global Health to address important thematic issues. This year’s theme was “Precision Global Health in the Digital Age” focusing on innovation in global health and...
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Maria Amalia Pesantes, member of the COHESION team in Peru, participated at the Society for Applied Anthropology 78th meeting that took place in 3-7 April 2018 in Philadelphia. She was a panelist in the session entitled " Health and Health Access" where she presented...
leer másFinal round of co-creation meetings in Nepal
The Nepal COHESION team organized meetings in Itahari (urban) and Baniyani (rural) at the Primary Health Care Centers on 5-6 April 2018, with the goal of sharing with the stakeholders the responsiveness frameworks that could guide the future intervention and of...
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The Swiss online journal for international cooperation and health published in March 2018, a new MMS bulletin called “No ‘business as usual’ against non-communicable diseases”. Reflecting on the findings of the global policy analysis for NCDs conducted by our project,...
leer másIntervention Design Workshop
In March, members of the COHESION Project met for two weeks in Lima, Peru, to design interventions. The team was joined by a group of consultants specialized in intervention design where we worked together to define potential interventions and to start developing the...
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Dr. Nilambar Jha, project co-applicant from Nepal, participated in the "1st India Public Policy Network Conference” that took place in Bhubaneswar - India, 28 February - 1 March 2018. He contributed to the panel session “Public Policy in the Sub Continent” with the...
leer másFirst site visit: Welcome to Nepal (Tapai lai Nepal ma swagat cha)
COHESION team members; Dr. Claudia Rutte, SNF r4d Project Coordinator; Prof. Dr. Joanna Schellenberg and Dr Andrew Cassels, SNF r4d Advisors met for a first site visit to Nepal from November 27th to December 2nd 2017. The goal of the one-week meeting was to share...
leer másCOHESION in the SDC Health Network news
The SDC Health Network just published in January Newsletter and it includes a story about COHESION. On behalf of the project, David Beran describes “Tackling NCDs and NTDs: the COHESION approach to addressing the SDGs”. He states: “The COmmunity HEalth System...
leer másNCDs Global Policy Analysis presented at the MMS symposium
At the beginning of November 2017, COHESION presented the results of its global policy analysis on NCDs at the annual symposium of Medicus Mundi Switzerland entitled «No business as usual against non-communicable diseases » (see here). The aim of this year's symposium...
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