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Community Health Impact Coalition is making professional community health workers the norm worldwide by changing guidelines, funding, and policy. Join us!
Reaching children who still miss lifesaving vaccines requires stronger immunization systems — and strong immunization systems rely on CHWs.
A new op-ed from @lastmilehealth.bsky.social + @villagereach.bsky.social explores their role in immunization, surveillance, and trust: bit.ly/4rClDGQ
As budgets tighten and risks rise, countries face hard choices about what to protect.
In a TIME op-ed, Madeleine Ballard and Davidson Polyte argue that investing in professional community health workers is one of the clearest ways to safeguard care and health security.
time.com/7336627/comm...
A strong and lasting health system pays and equips its frontline workforce.
In Kenya & Mozambique, governments are integrating and financing community health workers as core health infrastructure—building delivery capacity that holds even under pressure.
Explore why: sbee.link/ce8rvnx4tg
At the 4th CHW Symposium, 60+ countries issued the Bangkok Call to Action—a renewed global commitment to professional CHWs.
In a time of converging crises, CHWs deliver care, build trust & advance equity: sbee.link/v7x4jhy6qe
#CHWSymposium2025 #CHWsWork #GlobalHealth #HealthForAll
As global health becomes more fragmented, health systems are being tested by what actually works under pressure.
Countries that invest in paid, supported community health workers are building resilience into care delivery.
➡️ sbee.link/acwmhfe4vp
📹Here’s what it looks like when a CHW is in the room: Millicent Miruka, a CHW with Lwala Community Alliance, speaking directly with the CEO of Gavi the Vaccine Alliance about why governments must formally recognize CHWs.
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As global meetings pick up in 2026, it’s worth asking early: who’s in the room? If CHWs are part of the conversation, their voices should be too.
CHIC’s CHW Speaker Bureau helps organizers include CHWs as speakers and contributors.
Get to know the speakers: sbee.link/ych6kv8xdm
Over 1B people are affected by NTDs, yet the economics of the CHW programs delivering NTD care remain underexamined.
A new scoping review looks at what the evidence does — and doesn’t — tell governments about sustaining NTD care: sbee.link/n6acq7fx94
As we mark #WorldNTDDay
NTD prevention and treatment depend on what happens before a case reaches a facility.
For CHW Mildred Adhiambo Major, it starts with trust and linking communities to care.
This work lasts only when CHWs are trained, resourced, and compensated as part of the health system.
Ahead of #WorldNTDDay, CHW Keleou Kilim Dieudonné shares what NTD elimination requires: not pilots or individual effort, but systems that sustain community health—formal recognition, training, logistics, and long-term support.
Community health works when systems work.
When community health is treated as a core part of the health system—financed, supervised, and integrated with primary care—it can save lives at scale.
This month’s Research Roundup explores why. The frontline has kept its promise. Now systems must keep theirs.
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The case for community health is clear. What’s missing is alignment. In The Lancet Primary Care, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf calls for government-led financing to match what the frontline already delivers.
👉 https://sbee.link/kbafynutpe
The Bangkok Call to Action—issued at the 4th International Community Health Worker Symposium—lays out a shared agenda for governments, donors, and partners to secure the future of CHWs.
Read the full Call to Action and join our movement: bit.ly/4bv40Uy
#CHWsWork #proCHWs
How is AI actually showing up in CHW programs today? CHIC has launched a short, anonymous survey to help ensure AI solutions for community health include CHW voices—and lead to ethical, sustainable approaches.
Take the survey by Jan 25: sbee.link/btujvryafd
Nothing about CHWs without CHWs.
Benard Aketch Otieno, Lead CHW from Migori County, Kenya, joins CHIC’s Advisory Board—bringing the perspective needed to make professional CHWs the norm, not the exception.
In our first newsletter of 2026, we're exploring:
✔️Why frontline voices belong in policy + financing spaces
✔️What new economic reviews of integrated CHW programs signal for this year’s budget choices
✔️How CHWs are guiding coalition + movement direction
Read: sbee.link/jdq4hmbtre
At the 4th CHW Symposium, 60+ countries issued the Bangkok Call to Action—a renewed global commitment to professional CHWs.
In a time of converging crises, CHWs deliver care, build trust & advance equity. bit.ly/4bv40Uy
#CHWsWork #proCHWs
How is AI actually showing up in CHW programs today? CHIC has launched a short, anonymous survey to help ensure AI solutions for community health include CHW voices—and lead to ethical, sustainable approaches.
Take the survey by Jan 25: sbee.link/hgwxjrpvnc
From community to governance.
Benard Aketch Otieno, a Lead CHW from Migori County, Kenya, joins the CHIC Board—bringing firsthand experience organizing CHWs and shaping public health policy.
Join us in welcoming Benard!
📸 Photos from Benard’s work as a CHW leader in Migori County.
When a CHW’s ability to make a living depends on household purchases, care becomes conditional.
As countries strengthen primary care, evidence is raising questions about entrepreneurial CHW models—and what reliable care requires instead.
Our latest blog explores → joinchic.org/resources/the-...
The 2025 International CHW Symposium brought together 300+ CHWs—the largest virtual gathering ever recorded.
Their participation, in a challenging year, points to a shift underway: CHWs are increasingly helping guide the priorities they’re asked to deliver.
Explore: sbee.link/dhfayjxk7c
Big questions about leadership, asked by two very curious interviewers.
CHIC’s Carolyne Faith talks about the proCHW movement, collective advocacy, and why community health workers must be present wherever decisions about their work are made.
Listen in: sbee.link/up37t896cx🎧
How do data and digital tools actually show up in community health systems — and when do they make a difference?
The December CHIC Research Roundup looks at evidence on data-enabled CHWs, continuity of care, and when technology supports systems communities trust: sbee.link/e4chwuq8m7
When a CHW’s ability to make a living depends on household purchases, care becomes conditional.
As countries strengthen primary care, evidence is raising questions about entrepreneurial CHW models—and what reliable care requires instead.
Our latest blog explores → sbee.link/j4nau8eymg
84% of CHW care is cost-effective.
A new BMJ Global Health review reinforces what many countries already know: #proCHWs are core to strong primary care and UHC.
More for #UHCDay: gh.bmj.com/content/10/7/e01...
#ProCHWs #CommunityHealth #UHC #HealthForAll
Deploying CHWs to deliver 30 essential services in high-burden countries could save 6.9M lives a year.
This #UHCDay, we’re focused on what makes care reachable: financing + policies that support #proCHWs.
Track global progress toward professional CHWs → https://sbee.link/y4dgr7hcp8
Amid a year of funding turmoil, recent U.S. bilateral negotiations signaled a commitment to fully fund CHWs in 2026.
Signals like this can reinforce national priorities, strengthen CHW systems, and support continuity of care when stability has been hard to come by.
The 2025 International CHW Symposium brought together 300+ CHWs — the largest virtual gathering ever recorded.
Their participation, in a challenging year, points to a shift underway: CHWs are increasingly helping guide the priorities they’re asked to deliver.
Explore:https://sbee.link/4r78hnebkx
The @theworldbank.bsky.social's new digital health primer offers support for CHWs across its guidance — a signal that digital innovations for NCD and mental health care work best when CHWs are recognized, supported, and integrated into primary care teams: sbee.link/jcyk3g8h7x
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“Violence affects women’s physical, mental, and sexual health. CHWs share information on rights and services, engage communities and leaders, and challenge harmful norms to reduce stigma and support safer, more equitable communities for women and girls.”
— Seth Wavinya Kimani, CHW, Kenya
