Note: This post originally appeared on the mPowering Frontline Health Workers’ Blog — Today, one of the 1mCHW Campaign’s partners, mPowering Frontline Health Workers (mPowering) is announcing the launch of ORB, an online content platform that will play a major role in improving the performance of hundreds of thousands of frontline health workers. ORB is the… [ More ]
Our interview series on the need for data and information on community health workers (CHWs) continues. This week, we have a special post from Lesley-Anne Long, Global Director of mPowering Frontline Health Workers on how much data is needed, what kind, and how it can help strengthen health systems and support CHWs at scale. mPowering… [ More ]
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 ]