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CHW Central and the Thematic Working Group on Supporting and Strengthening the Role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Health System Development are delighted to announce their decision to work together to improve the accessibility and applicability of evidence for improving CHW programs. A meeting of minds CHW Central, managed by…

In recent years, community health workers (CHWs) have gained recognition as an important part of the health care system. At the same time, it has become increasingly clear that a person’s environment has a far greater impact on their health and wellbeing than access to health care or use of…

Kate Hawkins, REACHOUT Consortium and Secretary of the Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Supporting and Strengthening the Role of CHWs, summarizes the research priorities generated in the 3rd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town. The TWG includes academics, policy makers and implementers who will undertake and share research…

The symposium, held from September 30th through October 3rd, addressed the for (a) need universal health care and strengthening health systems, (b) relevant research topics and methods and, (c) knowledge networks and learning. The Global Health Systems Global Thematic Working Groups (TWG) with over 1500 members from more than 90…

This article originally appeared in The Impact Blog. Oriana Bandiera describes the close collaboration between a team of economists and the Government of Zambia to evaluate strategies to recruit, motivate and retain agents in the rollout of its National Community Health Assistant Programme. Using a randomised experiment the findings illustrate that there is no tradeoff between…