Continuity of Care - Bringing Care to People, Not Waiting for People to Come

22 Oct 2026
Workshop Room 1

When health systems collapse, patients do not stop needing care. Chronic diseases do not pause for conflict. Communities do not stop giving birth, contracting infections, or requiring surgery because a crisis has arrived. And yet the humanitarian response too often defaults to emergency care alone — leaving the full continuum of health needs unaddressed.

This session brings together four practitioners speaking from direct field experience, each addressing a different dimension of what it actually takes to keep care flowing across the full health pathway — from community to hospital — when the system is under pressure. The cases are concrete, the lessons are honest.

The session's central question: if continuity of care across the full pathway is the goal, what would need to change in how your organization plans, funds, and coordinates its health response?