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Oct 17, 2023

Last Mile Health and the Ethiopia Ministry of Health advocate for community health workers at the International Conference on Primary Health Care

From September 5 through September 7, 2023, health leaders from 50 countries convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the International Conference on Primary Health Care (ICPHC), organized by the International Institute for Primary Care – Ethiopia in collaboration with the Ethiopia Ministry of Health and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of…

Oct 3, 2023

The time is now: Four key themes from #UNGA78

Last Mile Health joined world leaders, policymakers, and peers at the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Our goal: champion the essential contributions of professional community health workers toward universal health coverage and pandemic preparedness and response.

We attended more than 45 side events, hosted…

Dec 2, 2022

Five Questions from BBC for Last Mile Health’s Dr. Ruth Diriba

The following is an excerpt from a September 23, 2022 BBC article, published in honor of the new Ethiopian calendar year of 2015. Amharic BBC asked five questions to six Ethiopian women in different fields of science, including Dr. Ruth Diriba, Last Mile Health Technical Consultant and Medical Expert. 

In…