🚀Promising early results for training Ethiopian CHWs on non-communicable diseases, like screening for hypertension, diabetes, and cancer.

📱Using a combination of in-person and digital education, ⁦Last Mile Health⁩ has equipped CHWs with new knowledge & skills.

Live from UNGA: Zambian CHW Bupe Sinkala - argues that budget lines must include CHW salaries, supplies, skills and supervision. “We are professionals”. #proCHWs #UHC

See Chelsea Clinton highlight Last Mile Health and Integrate Health commitment “to improving primary care for millions of people... their programs to support and strengthen gender-responsive community healthcare will promote better health outcomes and reduce preventable deaths”.

Last Mile Health James Nardella Skoll Foundation Margibi County Health Team and partner train.CHW of Mamba Kaba Health District In eCBIS.

Live from UNGA at the ⁦Jhpiego⁩ and ⁦Last Mile Health⁩ event: Vivian Oluchukwi, a Community Health Worker in Nigeria, shares her experience in addressing vaccine hesitancy during COVID, starting with her own example. CHWs are the first access to primary care. #ProCHWs

Missing not being at #SkollWF this week but super excited to hear about the conversation and shared insights into big bet doing and donating today with our CEO Maharshi Vaishnav Educate Girls, James Nardella Last Mile Health, Anna Hakobyan CIFF, Shivani Garg Patel @skollfoundation, 1/2

Can big-bet funding solve global challenges?

Join Maharshi Vaishnav of Educate Girls James Nardella Anna Hakobyan Shivani Garg Patel Lucien & Stephan Chambers for a talk on how to improve big-bet #funding .

📅 10 April
⏱️ 10.30 - 12 pm
📍 Lincoln College Oxford
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LMH's James Nardella at #SkollWF : 'We should be following up on big bets with strategic investments. Once a solution is shown to work, we need to double-down. It’s not even just a bet, it’s a wise investment.'

The Audacious Project Educate Girls US Skoll Foundation CIFF

We Last Mile Health stand with the Malawi Minister of Health Hon Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda MP who says- “CHWs are the backbone of the health sector”.

They used to be volunteers.

Now they are civil servants.

But we need more CHWs, especially those reaching hard to reach areas.

#ProCHWs

This week, Last Mile Health leaders Lisha McCormick & James Nardella, and Mallika Raghavan joined our Malawi team to celebrate the country's new community health framework and our ongoing partnership with the Ministry of Health.

David Walton of U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI): “Making professionalized CHWs the norm is still the goal”.

The Monrovia Call to Action is a Northstar.

We are working for alignment between U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), PEPFAR and USAID Global Health to advance this call.

#ProCHWs

Thank You for Joining 🙌🏾 And to the speakers 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿James Nardella Margaret Odera @barnabasyeboah Thank you for the powerful delivery.

Join us next week (29/11/2023) as we explore how to increase domestic funding 4 PHC through advocacy 📢
Panelists: Margaret Odera 4rm the CHW advocacy community, James Nardella from Last Mile Health @Nan Chen from Africa Frontline First 💯👌🏾
Registration is open: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

'We're all doing really hard work, and it means something to be surrounded by other people who are doing hard work,' says LMH's Chief Program Officer James Nardella, reflecting on the Skoll Foundation World Forum. More on how community drives change: bit.ly/45Gax9x

'Experience shows us that when we invest in CHWs, and when they are salaried, skilled, supervised and supplied, they can improve health outcomes with equity.'
James Nardella calling us all to action, inspired by the work of CHWs.

What makes primary healthcare the best investment to drive #HealthForAll ? Hear from Last Mile Health's Chief Program Officer, James Nardella, at #ICPHC2023 on September 6. Register today: bit.ly/3OuM2og

Everyday you work hard to show up and faithfully take actions in pursuit of a challenging mission of ensuring quality healthcare reaches families at the last mile. It is meaningful, at the end of the year, to see the efforts all summed up brilliantly in a report like this one.

'We are committed to walking alongside our government partners to the last mile. Long-term investment is what we need to get this work done,' says Chief Program Officer James Nardella. Read more on why long-term partnership matters: bit.ly/3O9PHr6

We Last Mile Health are here to raise the political will around the need to professionalize CHWs. If we are going to achieve universal health coverage, the health workers, who are closest to the community, those that serve their neighbors everyday, must be on the agenda.

#ProCHWs