Sept 2011 |
 First meeting with key U.S. partners at the mission-hospital level |
Early 2012 |
 Monthly teleconferences and e-mail list-serve for information exchange begin |
Oct 2012 |
 First symposium held at academic institution in New England with three partner organizations. |
Oct 2013 |
 Second symposium held; improved attendance. Mission hospital invited, but unable to attend. |
Feb 2014 |
 Third symposium held with nearly 1/3rd of STEGH teams plus local mission hospital partners there. Discussions highlight need for greater information sharing. |
May 2014 |
 Attendees from the symposium are at a major global health conference; during presentations, identify other attendees not part of the symposium collaboration that still work in La Romana; exchange contact information and agree to discuss ways to work together |
Jul 2014 |
 Initial teleconference held amongst newly expanded group. Suggestion to develop a local healthy community partnership to improve STEGH work. |
Aug 2014 |
 Two partners visit La Romana and meet with key stakeholders (local government, public health, non-profit stakeholders, university partners) to pitch HCP idea and obtain feedback and buy-in. |
Sep 2014 |
 A different partner from the newly expanded group visits La Romana and obtains buy-in from their local partner while reinforcing messaging to partners already contacted. Debrief teleconference held among expanded group agrees to two targets: symposium in November 2015 and pre-meeting March 2015 |
Oct 2014 – Feb 2015 |
 Participant list developed; invitations extended; pre-meeting planned and final last minute prep takes place over an alternative spring break in February 2015. |
March 2015 |
 Inaugural meeting of COSACO. |