Community Health Workers: The Line of First Defense
Setup
Community health workers bring lifesaving care to hard-to-reach locations. More than one billion people inhabit areas so remote that they lack any access to healthcare, but not too remote to trigger fast-moving epidemics. Enter community health workers, who can detect disease outbreaks, identify malnutrition and malaria, and provide basic primary care. Once operating largely alone, these practitioners are now connecting through online platforms and learning communities to become a global movement.
Speakers
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Josh NesbitCo-Founder and CEO, Medic Mobile -
Raj PanjabiCEO, Last Mile Health; Associate Physician, Division of Global Health... -
Katie DrasserManaging Director, Aspen Global Innovators Group, The Aspen Institute -
Kiribakka TendoManagement Partner for Sierra Leone, Aspen Management Partnership for...
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