One Million Community Health Workers

One Million Community Health Workers

LIVING GOODS: USING BREAKTHROUGH MOBILE TECHNOLOGY

This blog post originally comes from Living Goods, a non-profit organization out of Uganda, Kenya, and Myanmar working to build a sustainable distribution platform for products designed to fight poverty and disease in the developing world. Read the original article here.   How Living Goods uses smart mobile tools for better health outcomes and real-time data… [ More ]

DATA FOR DECISION MAKING SERIES: THE IMPORTANCE OF CHW DATA COLLECTION WITH MICHAEL BZDAK

This week in our Data for Decision Making Series, we interviewed Michael Bzdak, Ph.D., Executive Director of Corporate Contributions at Johnson & Johnson. Dr. Bzdak is responsible for driving the company’s strategy around strengthening the health care workforce, manages its volunteer support program, and oversees philanthropic support of K-12 education. He serves on the New… [ More ]

A Call to Scale-Up Community Health Workers

Conclusions of the Workshop on Financing Community Health Worker Systems at Scale in sub-Saharan Africa Of the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign This post was originally posted on the Huffington Post’s Impact Blog.  Public health officials and practitioners from around Africa and from international public and private organizations, businesses, and universities, met in Accra, Ghana… [ More ]