May 9, 2025
In 2021, the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health made an exciting revision to their national community health worker policy to equip the workforce to deliver an integrated package of primary health services – a critical component of universal health coverage.
Alongside this change, the Ministry of Health launched a research initiative…
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…
