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Background and Rationale  Studies show that trained, high-performing, community health workers (CHWs) can save more than three million lives annually, when integrated into the primary health care system1. Unfortunately, many community health worker programs are plagued by ineffective and expensive training and support, making them difficult to implement at … [Read more...] about Delivering Digital Educational Content for CHWs on a Global Scale

Background There is growing evidence on the benefits of comprehensive packages of community health services as a key strategy to promote healthy behavior and improve access to high-impact maternal, newborn, and child health interventions from pregnancy to adolescence. However, countries do not have a way to determine the cost and financing needs for these packages and, … [Read more...] about The Community Health Planning and Costing Tool (CHPCT)

“Health for justice, justice for health” – these ideals outline the connection between health, human rights, and social justice. This is also the message the United Nations aims to promote through the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, 26th June 2019. The opioid epidemic has progressed drastically in the United States since the 1990s. Drug … [Read more...] about CHWs Addressing Addiction

Imagine an online community, built intentionally to share expert public health knowledge and community-level experience with community health workers. What if this community connected rural CHWs with teams of expert CHWs and medical specialists, who mentored and coached them on the best ways to meet the social and health needs of their patients? What if these communities of … [Read more...] about Using the ECHO model to support CHWs