To continue our interview series on the necessity of acquiring data on community health workers, this week the Campaign spoke to Julia Bluestone, Sr. Technical Advisor at Jhpiego and Chair of the Frontline Health Worker Coalition. A senior public health official and certified nurse-midwife, Ms. Bluestone has had 15 years of experience in international education… [ More ]
We are joining mPowering Frontline Health Workers in a series of interviews, to hear from the experts why data on community health workers is so critical, and what needs to be done. This week, we spoke with Diana Frymus, Health Systems Strengthening Advisor in the Office of HIV/AIDS at USAID in Washington, DC. She focuses on… [ More ]
We recently sat down with Dr. Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Director of the One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign to talk about the important work that CHWs do and the pressing need for the scale-up of CHW programs. Dr. Sachs is a pediatrician and public health specialist. She has practiced medicine for over 20 years,… [ More ]
So, you’re considering submitting data into our Operations Room (thank you!) but aren’t quite sure how to do that. Well, you’ve come to the right place! Today on our blog we are going to provide our partners with a brief tutorial on how to upload CHW data into the Campaign’s Operations Room. In case you… [ More ]
*This post originally appeared on SamaHope’s blog on April, 9th 2015* Honoring Community Health Workers Around the World Charlotte Brugman, Marketing & Partnerships at SamaHope Each year on April 7th, World Health Day is celebrated as the anniversary of the WHO, and a time to recognize important issues in global health. For the past two years, this… [ More ]