Community Health Impact Coalition

THE SOUND SOLUTION

Community Health Impact Coalition is making professional community health workers (proCHWs) the norm worldwide. We create international guidelines. We increase global funding. And we win national policy.

Indisputable evidence confirms that CHWs improve health outcomes—with considerable equity and economic dividends. Governments can generate a 10:1 return on investment with community health workers. And proCHWs could save two million lives annually.

Our reason

Because

chws work.

About us

CHIC is a fiscally sponsored nonprofit founded in 2019. The Coalition includes thousands of CHWs and dozens of global health organizations in 40 countries across five WHO regions. Collective strength, collective impact.

Meet CHIC

WHAT WE DO

A powerful, symbiotic machine for policy change.

See our tactics

Research

We equip international norm setters with evidence to create proCHW guidelines.

Advocate

We influence global financing institutions to increase proCHW funding.

Activate

We mobilize in-country networks to win national proCHW policy.

OUR UNAPOLOGETIC VISION

Quality care for all, including those who provide it.

“The progress of professional community health workers is a beautiful story of a scalable solution. CHIC is emergent, brought into being by the doers themselves. It is wisely organized around explicit best practices for an effective proCHW model.”

—Kevin Starr, Mulago Foundation

OUR WINS

7 of 8

proCHW best practices enshrined in inaugural WHO CHW guidelines

$100,000,000

largest-ever fund for national proCHW programs with Africa Frontline First

121 MILLION

pieces of personal protective equipment delivered to CHWs during COVID

2,735

CHWs from 18 countries completed the CHW Advocates course (so far)

4

countries adopted at least one proCHW best practice nationally

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PROCHW RESOURCES

The problem: a dual human rights issue.

Despite decades of global health investment, 1 billion people cannot access essential health services.

CHW AIM.

A blueprint for community health worker success – The Community Health Worker Assessment and Improvement Matrix.

Pay CHWs.

Despite their vital work CHWs have long been subject to global debate about remuneration. But the discussion should move on to how to pay CHWs, not whether they should be paid.

RADICAL COLLABORATORS