The Case for CHWs: Champions of the Health System.
The role of community health workers (CHWs) in improving health equity and coverage.
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CHW Advocates are seizing power.
For too long, discussions about community health workers (CHWs) have been happening without CHWs in the room. It’s time for a change. Community health workers are seizing power.
Annual Report 2025.
Despite growing challenges across the global health landscape, the proCHW movement held the line. Rather than losing ground, the sector accelerated. Professional CHWs emerged not just as an equity intervention, but as an implementation strategy.
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CHIC AT SKOLL 2026.
Skoll World Forum 2026 marked a clear shift in the proCHW movement, from building policy momentum to tackling the practical realities of financing, integration, AI governance, and implementation inside public health systems.
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Annual Report 2025.
Despite growing challenges across the global health landscape, the proCHW movement held the line. Rather than losing ground, the sector accelerated. Professional CHWs emerged not just as an equity intervention, but as an implementation strategy.
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2025 CHW SYMPOSIUM & BANGKOK CTA
At the 2025 CHW Symposium, countries and CHWs underscored the need for aligned, sustainable CHW programs, building momentum toward the Bangkok Call to Action.
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Community Health is Worth the Cost
In this TIME feature, members of the Community Health Impact Coalition show why community health workers remain one of the smartest investments in health—driving stronger systems and healthier communities across the world.
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THE CASE AGAINST ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The entrepreneurial CHW model promises financial sustainability and empowerment. Instead, it creates barriers to care, distorts CHW priorities, and underperforms relative to professional CHW programs.
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Cost-Effectiveness of CHW Programs.
CHIC is building the global evidence base on the costs and cost-effectiveness of community health worker (CHW) programs through a landmark series of five scoping reviews, plus a one-page synthesis designed for policy impact.
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United Nations General Assembly 80.
The 80th United Nations General Assembly convened world leaders in New York City from September 17-27, 2025, during a pivotal moment for global health.
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CHWs and Immunization
Download our advocacy briefs to learn how trusted proCHWs build vaccine confidence, reach the hardest-to-reach, and cost-effectively strengthen immunization systems.
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Making proCHW Investments Visible.
New Coalition research finds most funders do not systematically track or report proCHW investments, making it challenging to assess global funding flows.
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CHW Programs & Data.
Overviewing current data use within CHW programs and highlighting thematic areas for funder and policymaker use.
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World Health Assembly 78.
The Coalition was in attendance at World Health Assembly 78 advocating for the professional CHW (proCHW) movement.
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CHIC wins Skoll Award.
CHIC wins The Skoll Foundation Award in recognition of our shared work towards health for all.
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Annual Report 2024.
2024 saw some major leaps toward making professional CHWs the norm. Read more in our Annual Report 2024.
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CHIC wins Schwab Foundation Award.
CHIC wins The Schwab Foundation Award in recognition of our shared work solving complex problems that cannot be tackled by individual actors.
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The proCHW movement in 2024.
Ahead of our upcoming Annual Report we explore where we won in 2024 and what we hope to achieve together in the new year.
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One Term to Transform.
Coalition commentary on CHWs and UHC in The Lancet.
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ACHIEVING HEALTH FOR ALL & PROCHWs.
If the house is health for all and the foundation is primary healthcare, it stands to reason that CHWs are the bedrock and the builders.
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United Nations General Assembly 79.
Uncover the complete story of the United Nations General Assembly, featuring the highs, the lows, and importantly, what we can do next to guarantee quality care for all, including those that provide it.
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CHIC Wins the Roux Prize.
CHIC’s CEO and co-founder Dr. Madeleine Ballard wins the Roux Prize on behalf of Community Health Impact Coalition in recognition of the Coalition’s research and advocacy contributions to health.
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Exemplars in Global Health.
Dr. Madeleine Ballard and CHW Advocate Chisomo Boxer spoke to Exemplars about the Coalition’s work and the proCHW movement.
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World Health Assembly 77.
The Coalition was in attendance at World Health Assembly 77 advocating for the professional CHW (proCHW) movement.
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Devex: CHWs & vaccinations.
CHWs are critical to achieving the Immunization Agenda 2030 goals and mist be included in immunization programs.
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Annual Report 2023.
2023 was a big year towards in our shared mission, read more in our Annual Report 2023.
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OUR MOVEMENT IN 2023.
Ahead of our upcoming Annual Report we explore where we won in 2023 and what we hope to achieve together in the new year.
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UHC DAY 2023.
As we recognise UHC Day 2023, and noting that CHWs are vital to health for all, we reaffirm our commitment to making proCHWs the norm.
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Dual Cadres.
Research by the Coalition looks at labor exploitation in dual cadre CHW programs, finding moral and technical failures.
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Johnson & Johnson Articles.
The Coalition recently contributed to two features by the Johnson & Johnson Centre for Health Worker Innovation.
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ProCHW Op-Ed
Lennie Bazira and Prossy Muyingo pen a piece for Project Syndicate on the need for proCHW policy change.
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United Nations General Assembly 78.
Coming out of UNGA 78 in New York, we reflect on our shared advocacy and what’s next for the proCHW movement.
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New York Times Feature.
‘Only God Can Thank You’: Female Health Workers Fight to Be Paid – A feature by Stephanie Nolen for the New York Times.
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Foreign Policy Article.
‘Only God Can Thank You’: Female Health Workers Fight to Be Paid – A feature by Stephanie Nolen for the New York Times.
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It’s the water.
Ahead of UNGA78, CHIC CEO reflects on what’s changed in community health just a few short years.
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Poetry from the movement.
“Echoes from Earth: The Silent Sentinels” a poem by community health worker advocate, Loyce Nyaboke from Nairobi, Kenya.
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CHW Heroines of Health.
Community Health Workers (CHWs) recognised as Heroines of Health by Women in Global Health.
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World Health Assembly 76.
The Coalition was in attendance at World Health Assembly 76 advocating for the professional CHW (proCHW) movement.
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COVID-19.
Community Health Impact Coalition’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Research Round-Up at 100.
February 2023’s issue of the Round-Up was our one hundredth, to celebrate we highlighted key papers from across issues.
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Climate Change.
Countries that invest in proCHWs place themselves in the best position possible to tackle the challenges of climate change.
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2023 CHW Symposium & Monrovia CTA.
The 3rd CHW Symposium, held in Liberia, brought together more than 700 delegates from 46 countries and saw the launch of the Monrovia CTA.
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proCHW Policy Dashboard.
The largest ever public dashboard for community health worker policies.
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The Case for CHWs: Champions of the Health System.
The role of community health workers (CHWs) in improving health equity and coverage.
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Research Round-Up.
Our fortnightly Research Round-Up showcases the latest evidence on all things Community Health.
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WHO Guideline on Community Health Worker Programs.
Community Health Impact Coalition’s (CHIC) contribution to the landmark CHW guideline by WHO.
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Community Health Data Harmonization.
How harmonizing community health worker (CHW) data can drive quality improvement and cross-site learning.
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The Founding Story of CHIC: Creating a New Movement.
How as a Coalition we’re transforming the community health landscape.
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Roles for CHWs in COVID-19 Vaccination.
Coalition contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO) vaccination implementation support guide.
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Community Health Workers in Pandemics.
Toward financing practices for community health programs that avoid harm and accelerate impact.
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Service Doesn’t Stop: CHWs Maintain Continuity of Care During COVID-19.
Paid and protected CHWs continued to provide health services to 5.2 million people during COVID-19.
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Africa Frontline First (AFF).
A collective initiative working toward health, health security, and economic recovery across Africa.
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Payment of CHWs: It’s No Longer Up for Debate.
A response to the Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary care.
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Global Fund approves new proCHW metric.
Global Fund becomes the first major funder to commit to measuring and increasing the number of proCHWs across the globe.
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Annual Report 2022.
We’re making professional community health workers (proCHWs) the norm worldwide. 2022 was a big year towards this shared vision
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Harnessing Expertise to Optimize Community Health.
How six innovative partners joined forces to accelerate the adoption of high-impact community health systems design.
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The Community Health Worker Speaker Bureau.
For too long, discussions about CHWs have been happening without CHWs. It’s time for a change. Book a CHW Speaker!
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CHW AIM.
A blueprint for community health worker success – The Community Health Worker Assessment and Improvement Matrix.
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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.
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Count CHWs.
Learn more about the first ever implementation guide to support national governments and their technical and financial partners to develop a functional, continuously maintained, shared and institutionalized CHW master list hosted in a national registry.
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CHW Advocates are seizing power.
For too long, discussions about community health workers (CHWs) have been happening without CHWs in the room. It’s time for a change. Community health workers are seizing power.
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The problem: a dual human rights issue.
Despite decades of global health investment, 1 billion people cannot access essential health services.
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