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Jan 27, 2026

Transitioning county management in Grand Bassa and Grand Gedeh: A step toward government ownership of Liberia’s National Community Health Program

Last Mile Health works hand in hand with ministries of health to design and implement high-quality, high-impact community health programs that address governments’ most urgent health priorities and advance universal health coverage. At the core of this approach is ensuring governments can own and manage these programs in…

Oct 23, 2025

Advancing health innovation at the 2025 International Conference on Primary Health Care

From October 6-10, 2025, global health leaders gathered 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 Public Health. Last Mile…

Jul 31, 2025

Government-owned community health programs are the way forward.

By Lisha McCormick, CEO, Last Mile Health

Last month, New York Times journalist Nick Kristof visited Liberia and Sierra Leone, investigating the impact of USAID’s abrupt termination and gathering evidence on deaths resulting from this unprecedented funding disruption. He traveled with Last Mile Health’s Brittney Varpilah and T…