Dr. Madeleine Ballard

Our shared work is in @nytimes today A story about what #CHWs need to get care to everyone. A story about the community fighting to get us there nytimes.com/2023/09/21/hea… #HealthforAll @join_chic

IHME’s Roux Prize recipients have been steadfast in their pursuit of health equity. Do you know an individual or organization working to better their communities? Submit a nomination by April 3: ms.spr.ly/6013QuYkd @PstDrKemi / @join_chic / @DrMBallard / @ProfIAbubakar

“Connect. Collaborate. And win.” Beautiful words from @DrMBallard and Margaret Odera accepting the @SkollFoundation Social Innovation award on behalf of @join_chic 🙌 #SkollWF

.@join_chic accepts the 2025 Skoll Award for Social Innovation! We are so proud to be part of the movement to make #proCHWs the norm worldwide. Onward! #SkollWF

We're proud to be a founding member of @join_chic, which has driven incredible progress in making #proCHWs the norm. A new case study in @SSIReview w/@SkollFoundation shares how our coalition is making this work possible, with CHWs leading the way: bit.ly/4bnxOR6

Yesterday, Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. 🧵

📣Part 2: ‘Journey to Transformation’ Launches Today 📣 Building on the insights from “Social Innovation and the Journey to Transformation,” this new three-article series published in @SSIReview examines how social innovation translates from theory to practice. Inside the Series: 🌐 “From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement” explores how a global movement is advancing a workforce and access to care. By Sheringham Odhiambo, Advocates for Community Health Volunteers-Kenya; @DrMBallard, @join_chic; and Ben Pyne and Kathryn Harrison, @SkollFoundation 🌐“From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights” highlights how land rights advocates are securing Indigenous and local communities’ territories to curb deforestation. By @SolangeBandiaky, @RightsResources; @lrallen, @ClimateLandUse; @beboettcher and @tanyapham, @SkollFoundation 🌐”From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change” shares why social innovation must be mainstreamed to meet the polycrisis. By @cheryldorsey, @echoinggreen and @shivanigp, @SkollFoundation By revealing key lessons and strategies, these playbooks offer practical guidance for innovators to adapt, replicate, and scale solutions across sectors. 📖 Read the series and join the conversation: skoll.wf/seriesjourney-X #JourneyToTransformation #SocialInnovation #CollaborativePhilanthropy #Impact #CollectiveAction

We are proud to be recognized as a Collective Social Innovator winner in this year’s #SchwabAwards25. CHIC CEO @DrMBallard and CHW Advocate Millicent Anyango Miruka collected the award at #WEF25. joinchic.org/resources/schw… @MotsepeFoundtn @schwabfound @Davos

"Our goal is to see 95 countries recognize and pay CHWs. We're just over a third of the way there. We're on track to hit that tipping point." @DrMBallard As a Coalition we are winning but social change is a team sport. Join us: sbee.link/896ebrjmdx

If ‘patriotism’ is the answer, why don’t the Permanent Secretary and other top health officials work for free and redirect their hefty salaries to frontline health workers? A PS’s salary could pay 10+ community health workers. Funny how ‘patriotism’ always demands sacrifice from the poor. Injustice! @DianaAtwine @MinofHealthUG

Put it on a tshirt, Larry! #PayCHWs

Uganda’s donor-supported health system is taking the shock of the USAID shutdown during an Ebola outbreak. It’s the worst possible time

Uganda asked health workers paid by American funds to work for free as volunteers "in the spirit of patriotism" after the US froze foreign aid, cutting off support to staff supported by USAID & CDC

@SydneyHedderich @charliekirk11 @cafreeland Sydney, the Canadian International Development Agency was folded into Canada’s equivalent of the state department more than a decade ago.

Secretary Rubio's barn burner: "...USAID has a history of ignoring [the national interest of the United States] and deciding that they're a global charity. These are not donor dollars, these are taxpayer dollars." Too bad @cafreeland & Team Trudeau never acted responsibly regarding taxpayer dollars that they selected for the Ukraine laundromat, among other hopeless causes that for a decade burned a hole in Canadian pockets. @PierrePoilievre

Secretary of State Marco Rubio just absolutely RIPPED the deep state slush fund known as USAID: "I am the acting director of USAID." "My frustrations with USAID goes back to my time in Congress. It's a completely unresponsive agency, it's supposed to respond to policy directives of the state department and it refuses to do so." "Every dollar we spend will be aligned with the national interest of the United States. USAID has a history of ignoring that and deciding that they're a global charity. These are not donor dollars, these are taxpayer dollars." 🔥🔥

@charliekirk11 “Anybody who tells you we can slash foreign aid, & that will bring the US to balance is lying to you - [it’s] <1% of budget” - Rubio, 2019 Wrote a letter saying it’s necessary to increase USAID’s budget to counter CCP influence -Rubio, 2022 He was right.

@charliekirk11 Lol not true at all. He liked USAID a lot when he was in Congress: “We don’t have to give foreign aid, we do so bc it furthers our national interest” - Rubio, 2013 “[Hard to] recruit someone to anti-American terrorism if the US is the reason they’re alive” - Rubio, 2017

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

"This isn't charity; it's smart economics" Proud to argue for *more* foreign aid in @Forbes Everything spent is far too little, & it's dangerously easy to forget ​​Also, without a doubt, #foreignaid makes America, safer, stronger, & more prosperous👇 forbes.com/sites/christin…

We are proud to be recognized as a Collective Social Innovator winner in this year’s #SchwabAwards25. CHIC CEO @DrMBallard and CHW Advocate Millicent Anyango Miruka collected the award at #WEF25. joinchic.org/resources/schw… @MotsepeFoundtn @schwabfound @Davos

An insightful interaction with @DrMBallard, CEO of @join_chic and Assistant Professor at @IcahnMountSinai. We discussed ways to strengthen gender-responsive healthcare systems and emphasised the importance of empowering women as decision-makers and leaders in the health sector.

"Our goal is to see 95 countries recognize and pay CHWs. We're just over a third of the way there. We're on track to hit that tipping point." @DrMBallard As a Coalition we are winning but social change is a team sport. Join us: sbee.link/896ebrjmdx