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 ]
This week for our Data for Decision Making Series, Dr. Henry Perry talks to the Campaign about the challenges of CHW scale-up. Dr. Perry is a Senior Scientist in the Health Systems Program of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the author or co-author of… [ More ]
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 ]
