Event

CCIH 2023 Conference Celebrates Hope in Health


July 13, 2023

CCIH hosted our 2023 Conference June 5-7 in Washington, DC, with the theme of Hope in Health: Our Labor is not in Vain. This in-person event was held at the Catholic University of America, and was the first in-person CCIH event since the COVID-19 pandemic. There were 179...

by Hannah Fields

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Advocacy, Infectious Diseases

Harnessing the ‘Power of What is Possible’ to End Neglected Tropical Diseases


June 16, 2023

by Bill Simmons, President and CEO, American Leprosy Missions  This year the U.S. marks 20 years of PEPFAR: the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. American Leprosy Missions (ALM) believes this program lights a path forward for combatting another global health threat: neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Initiated...

by Guest Contributor

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Maternal and Child Health, Vaccines, WASH

Faith-based organizations are the leading edge of the local partnerships of the future


June 2, 2023

by Dr. Koki Agarwal, Project Director, USAID MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership; Vice President, DC Operations, Jhpiego For the past 20 years, I have led global USAID projects on maternal, newborn, and child health—this work has given me a front row seat to witness incredible progress for mothers...

by Guest Contributor

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Vaccines

Vaccine Hesitancy and How the Faith Community Can Help


April 20, 2023

World Immunization Week is an ideal time to celebrate this life-saving intervention and take stock of what we learned from COVID vaccine hesitancy. The challenge public health officials faced with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance may have raised the profile of vaccine hesitancy, but it is not a new phenomenon....

by Kathy Erb

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