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• #HealthyMeans Family Planning Photo Rally

  Tweet, post or Instagram your best "#healthymeans Family Planning!" photo to build a beautiful visual story of the impact of family planning on women and their families. Tag your photos with @Jhpiego and #healthymeans to submit a photo.

• Healthy Means Crowdhall: The power of partnerships to build a healthy future November 18-20, 2014

  Join the Healthy Means partners to explore the ways that partnerships between companies and NGOs can create unlikely solutions for some of the toughest health challenges, including: nutrition, vaccines and more. Submit questions via Crowdhall.

• Twitter Chat with Global Health Corps: UNCOMMON ROLES, COMMON GOAL - The importance of non-traditional roles in global health November 18, 2014 at 10:00am EST

  How can we effectively engage top talent across sectors in the fight for health equity, especially in the roles not traditionally associated with global health, such as finance, computer science, M&E, communications, and supply chain? Join in the discussion with @ghcorps, @MASSDesignLab and @VecnaCares on Tuesday, November 18 at 10:00 AM EST, with the hashtags #HealthyMeans and #CommonGoal.

• Tweet Blast on TB and Diabetes: How do we stop a co-epidemic? November 18, 2014 at 11:00am EST

  Diabetes triples the risk that a person will develop TB. Responding to TB-diabetes challenges the conventional approach to global public health, which has addressed infectious diseases and noncommunicable diseases independently. Join @TheUnion_TBLH for a tweet blast on how we the global health community can work together to stop this co-epidemic.

• mHealth Twitter Chat: How mobile technology is transforming global health November 18, 2014 at 12:00pm - 12:30pm EST

  Governments, donors and program implementers are enthusiastic about the emerging role of mHealth, the use of mobile phones and associated technologies in the practice of medicine and public health. mHealth efforts have incredible potential to strengthen health systems and improve health outcomes but what are the practical applications and challenges in developing countries? Join Access.MobileInc, USAID Digital,USAID Global Health, and Johnson and Johnson Global Health for a Twitter Chat on mHealth & how it's transforming global health. Send questions using #healthymeans.

• Action for Global Health: UHC Tweet Blast November 19, 2014 at 9:00am EST

  Join the Action for Global Health as they share important facts, myths, and innovative ways of implementing UHC (universal healthcare) in the post-2015 agenda. Follow along using #healthymeans.

• Twitter Chat: Understanding the Urban Sanitation Problem World Toilet Day - November 19, 2014 at 10:00am - 11:00am EST

  Join USAID @GlobalDevLab and @USAIDEnviro for a twitter chat on why the Agency is focusing its efforts around the problem of urban sanitation on Wednesday, November 19 at 10:00 AM EST. Send your questions using #AskUSAID.

• #3BLChat Twitter Chat: Global Pro Bono is Moving the Needle on Maternal Health November 19, 2014 at 1:00pm EST

  Join 3BL Media for a chat with @USAID, @MerckforMothers, @PYXERAGlobal & @JacarandaHealth to explore how partnerships and global pro bono can make maternal healthcare accessible and available. Follow the chat with #3BLChat on Wednesday, November 19 at 1:00 PM EST.