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Dec 16, 2020

The Next Pandemic Won’t Wait: What World Leaders Can Do to Improve Frontline Access to Essential PPE

This piece originally appeared on the Pandemic Action Network website.
Introduction
Despite a hyper-connected global marketplace, the COVID-19 pandemic is straining every part of the global supply chain. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the massive, persistent shortages and delays in getting personal protective equipment (PPE…

Nov 6, 2020

Last Mile Health & VillageReach Team Up with Liberia Ministry of Health to Equip All Community Health Workers with PPE

by Last Mile Health and VillageReach

Around the world, community health workers are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response. As a critical link between health facilities and patients in rural and remote areas, community health workers are working to prevent, detect, and respond to COVID-19 while continuing…

Nov 3, 2020

“If I’m expected to be paid for the work I do, what about community health workers?” Last Mile Health’s T. Ruston Yarnko on Women in Global Health and Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation Webinar

On October 28, 2020, T. Ruston Yarnko, Last Mile Health’s Director of National Community Health Systems in Liberia, shared the following remarks on the Women in Global Health and Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation webinar on women’s unpaid care work globally. 

Thank you for the…