Community Health Impact Coalition

x.com/SkollFoundatio… We’re excited to share that CHIC has been named a winner of the 2025 Skoll Award for Social Innovation! We are thrilled that this Award is shining a spotlight on our ongoing efforts to support community health workers. Thank you to the @SkollFoundation for amplifying the voices of innovators around the world.

Meet the panel! Different perspectives. One key question: What do we actually know about investment in Community Health Workers and where are the gaps? Join the discussion and hear what the data says. 📅 March 25 🕒 3:00 PM EAT | 8:00 AM EDT Register: bit.ly/4l6xf2N

When global standards shift, so do expectations. WHO’s Curriculum Guide makes it harder to justify undertrained, unsupervised, unpaid CHWs. The path forward is clearer: invest in a professional, supported workforce. 🔗 sbee.link/pwaq3rydct

Not all CHW programs deliver the same results. Integrated CHW programs consistently outperform fragmented, single-disease models. When we invest in integrated CHWs we don’t just save money. We save lives. We stretch resources. We strengthen systems. ↪️ sbee.link/k7qaejv8pr

What’s shaping the future of community health? Not just technology — but how we support, protect, and invest in the people delivering care. Latest evidence from CHIC’s Research Roundup: sbee.link/dpqb739ytk

What do we actually know about how CHW programs are financed across sub-Saharan Africa? Join this webinar with @FinancingAllian, CHW Central, and @join_chic to explore what current data reveals about CHW investments +why stronger visibility matters for policy and financing decisions. Register: bit.ly/4l6xf2N

When community health work is treated as voluntary labor, it shapes who ends up doing it. As CHW Blanca Flor Rosales Borrego of Peru’s Ministry of Health observes, many men believe unpaid work isn’t worth doing. The result: women often carry the responsibility for community health.

Too often, the responsibility for community health falls on women. CHW Kapinga Rebecca of the DRC MOH describes a reality seen in many communities: women are expected to carry the work of community health yet the work continues with limited resources, training, equipment, and recognition.

Peru just awarded its highest recognition for advancing women’s equality to a CHW, Carmen Rosa Vilela Vargas. Yet the workforce she represents still lacks formal recognition. Across the movement, CHWs like Carmen are advocating to turn recognition into the policies their work demands.

For #IWD2026, Margaret Odera, a lead CHW and advocate from Kenya, shares a simple truth: many women stepped into community health work even when education systems didn’t create pathways for them. They’re still showing up. It’s time to pay and support the workforce behind community health.

“This is a call for change. Enough of volunteer work.” Carmen Vilela Vargas, CHW from Peru. As we mark #IWD2026, her message reflects a reality across global health: millions of women continue to work unpaid or underpaid in CHW roles. “Recognizing our work is not an expense. It is an investment.”

Too often, decisions about CHWs happen without CHWs in the room. As CHW Aboubakare Djariyétou of Togo’s MOH reminds us: realizing health as a human right requires CHWs advocating with leaders to remove financial barriers to care. More about CHW Advocates ➡️ joinchic.org/resources/chw-…

Declaring health a human right is the easy part. Delivering it is harder. As Aaron Jameni, a CHW with Kenya’s Ministry of Health, notes, realizing that right requires strong primary care and proCHWs.

As #IWD approaches, conversations are sharping around gender. Beyond celebration lies a hard question: who carries the cost of care? In our March newsletter, we unpack the gendered economics of community health and the shift from unpaid labor to professional status➡️ sbee.link/ktanxj4m96

Once standards are clear, expectations shift. WHO’s Global Curriculum Guide sets a baseline for what CHWs need to deliver safe, effective care—and what systems must put in place to support them. Policy and financing now need to keep pace. 🔗 sbee.link/vxqnhdpm4w

Liberia reduced the cost of treating NTDs by up to tenfold. How? Integrated community health worker programs. When CHWs are salaried and trained to deliver care across conditions, they don’t just match alternative delivery models. They outperform them. → sbee.link/v63gqwp9fh

CHIC is hiring a Director of Development to build and lead a bold, scalable fundraising function. Remote. $127–167k (Cost of Living Adjusted). Benefits: medical (incl. child coverage), 16 wks paid leave, 401k match + more. Apply by March 15: sbee.link/gy7nvqe9mt

When health budgets tighten, “cost-effective” is only part of the story. In a special edition of CHIC's  Research Roundup we unpack findings of five new scoping reviews from 10 years of research on the costs, cost-effectiveness, and affordability of CHW programs. ➡️ lnkd.in/epiaMchQ

Reaching children who still miss lifesaving vaccines requires stronger immunization systems — and strong immunization systems rely on CHWs. A new op-ed from @lastmilehealth + @VillageReach explores their role in immunization, surveillance, and trust. Read more: bit.ly/4rClDGQ

As budgets tighten and risks rise, countries face hard choices about what to protect. In a TIME op-ed, Madeleine Ballard and Davidson Polyte argue that investing in professional community health workers is one of the clearest ways to safeguard care and health security. time.com/7336627/commun…

A strong and lasting health system pays and equips its frontline workforce.  In Kenya & Mozambique, governments are integrating and financing community health workers as core health infrastructure—building delivery capacity that holds even under pressure. Explore why: sbee.link/ce8rvnx4tg