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Building an evidence base in recruitment, training, and implementation

In 2021, Last Mile Health and the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health embarked on an ambitious research initiative: examining the recruitment, training, and implementation of the country’s first fully-integrated community health worker program. Supported by Exemplars in Global Health…

In May 2024, Last Mile Health launched district-level operations in Kambia, a “learning lab” where we will pilot new tools and approaches to strengthen community health worker performance and management prior to their national scale-up. Work at the district level will demonstrate how targeted improvements to the national…

Lessons from the training and recruitment of 8,000+ CHWs in Sierra Leone

By Joseph B. Sesay, Last Mile Health; Elizabeth Musa, Sierra Leone Ministry of Health; and Meredith Kimball, Exemplars in Global Health

“Community health worker programs have gained global momentum. As a country we must not be left…