In the last few weeks, US foreign assistance has come under attack by the Trump administration, with Elon Musk and his team effectively shutting down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and freezing foreign aid. USAID sent stop work orders to all its contractors at the end of January 2025, leading to a halt in life-saving services across the world. … [Read more...] about The Looming Crisis in Community Health: The Impact of the US Foreign Aid Freeze on Community Health Worker Programs
Community health workers
There are lots of different kinds of CHWs: A proposed taxonomy for classifying community health workers
Community-based primary healthcare (CB-PHC) can mean different things. It can refer to the government’s “last-mile” PHC services, for example vaccinators providing services at an outreach site. It can also refer to what members of a community are doing collectively to improve their lives. Associated with these various types of activity there are various workers, volunteers and … [Read more...] about There are lots of different kinds of CHWs: A proposed taxonomy for classifying community health workers
Updates on Community Health and Primary Health Care – December 2024
Henry B. Perry, III, MD, PhD, MPH is a Senior Associate in the Health Systems Program of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He joined Hopkins in 2009; his career prior to that has included stints working with Future Generations, Curamericas Global, ICDDR,B, the BASICS Project in Bangladesh, and … [Read more...] about Updates on Community Health and Primary Health Care – December 2024
The Role of Community Health Workers in East Africa: Insights, Challenges, and the Path Forward
Since January 2024, CHW Central has noticed a wealth of publications focusing on Community Health Workers (CHWs) across East Africa: 64 articles to be specific. In this summary of the recent evidence, I offer insights into the current state of CHW programs in the region and what the research tells us, including key learnings, challenges, and lingering questions that continue to … [Read more...] about The Role of Community Health Workers in East Africa: Insights, Challenges, and the Path Forward
“Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era:” a Reflection for the Future
“Community health workers are the antidote to the ignorance of the expert.” - Daniel Palazuelos On November 5, 2022, members of CHW Central attended the American Public Health Association’s Community-based Primary Health Care, or CBPHC, workshop in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The workshop, “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era,” featured a keynote … [Read more...] about “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era:” a Reflection for the Future
