Sep 6, 2023
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…
Jul 26, 2022
When community health worker Jerome Gardiner was growing up, there was no health clinic nearby. There wasn’t even a midwife, he recalls. For his community and rural communities throughout Liberia, this meant that potentially treatable conditions could become deadly, due to lack of access to basic health services.
Now…
Apr 21, 2022
By Michelle Choy, Senior Manager of Health Systems Strengthening at Last Mile Health and Pooja Sripad, Associate at Population Council
Community health worker programs are essential for the delivery of accessible, equitable, high-quality primary care. Without a significant expansion of support for national community health worker programs, universal health…
