One Million Community Health Workers Campaign Marks One Year Anniversary
January marks one-year since the launch of the One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign! We have lots to celebrate as we continue to mobilize support for the integration of professionally...
View ArticleThe Nigeria MDG Information System (NMIS) Takes Open Data Further
Author: Candice Heberer, Interaction Designer Right now is an exciting time for the Nigeria Scale-up Project. The Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University, in collaboration with CGSD, are...
View ArticleCan Coaching Health Workers Improve the Performance of Health Systems?
Co-Author: Shubhra Kumar, Research Associate at Columbia Global Center South Asia In a 2011 article in the New Yorker, surgeon and writer Atul Gawande explored the idea of having coaches, such as in...
View ArticleGhana Completes the 1st Community Health Worker Roadmap
The One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign, through close collaboration with the Ghanaian Ministry of Health, is pleased to announce the release of the government’s national Community...
View ArticleStrengthening Health, Education, and Water Systems Across Nigeria
Countries around the world are accelerating efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of global milestones adopted by the United Nations, before the 2015 deadline. Though...
View ArticleCoaching Health Workers to Maximize Performance
Health workers strive to achieve high performance in the same way as professionals do in many fields – gain knowledge through study and refine skills through practice. Ongoing coaching is also often...
View ArticleUNAIDS joins forces with the One Million Community Health Workers campaign to...
Press release by UNAIDS | 2 February 2016 UNAIDS and the One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) initiative have announced a major strategic partnership to support the achievement of the 90–90–90...
View ArticleThe End of AIDS
As featured in Project Syndicate | November 29, 2016 The AIDS pandemic claimed around 36 million lives between 1981 and 2016, and a similar number around the world currently live with the HIV virus....
View ArticleUNAIDS and CSD endorse creation of 2 million CHWs in support of 90-90-90
On February 9, 2017, UNAIDS, the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg co-hosted an expert consultation at Columbia...
View ArticleEmpowering Girls by Learning About Puberty
As featured in State of the Planet | March 8, 2017 By Justine Dowden & Yanis Ben Amor When Sunita, a student in rural South India, got her period for the first time she was sure she was on the...
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