Nov 17, 2022

Last Mile Health’s five-year strategy launch event

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Our New Strategy: Closing the Distance

On November 10, 2022, Last Mile Health hosted a webinar to launch our new five-year strategy, Closing the Distance. You can dive deeper into the topics we explored with the resources below. And if you missed the event, it’s not too late-the full conversation is now available online.

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“Progress requires healthy communities, and communities that are able to advocate for themselves. We have the solution in our hands–the challenge now is to sustain that course.” –Lisha McCormick, CEO, Last Mile Health

“Last Mile Health is spearheading the movement to professionalize community health workers, build resilient health systems, drive more resources to community health, and ultimately transform the lives of millions of patients living in rural and remote communities. This is a daring quest whose large-scale success is not guaranteed, but it is the right and wise thing to do.“ –Dr. Olusoji Adeyi, Incoming Board Chairperson, Last Mile Health

After opening remarks from Lisha McCormick and Olusoji Adeyi, Last Mile Health’s Deputy Chief Program Officer Mallika Raghavan moderated brief discussions on the key themes and values driving our work ahead: providing deep accompaniment to governments, improving international funding flows for community health, and shifting centers of power and decision-making, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion and gender mainstreaming.

 
Deep accompaniment to governments

Abraham Zerihun, Last Mile Health’s Ethiopia Country Director, spoke to the demonstrated commitments of Ethiopia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Liberia to build professional community health workforces and the tailored support we offer to ensure effective and durable care.

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Improved funding flows

Nan Chen, Co-Executive Director of Africa Frontline First, detailed his new role and how the collaborative initiative aims to turn the vision of integrated and professionalized community health into a reality.

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A new global office in Accra 

Naa Adorkor Yawson, Last Mile Health’s Managing Director of Operational Services, offered insight into our new Ghana office and our work to sustain DEI and gender mainstreaming efforts across the organization.

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All of this is done with a singular focus on patients who need access to care.

For patients like Marie Gboto and her son Samuel, distance to care can turn a treatable disease into a fatal one. Learn how Marie and Samuel’s community health worker Laura brought the care they needed directly to their doorstep.

Marie Gboto with her son Samuel

 

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