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By Mary Beth Powers, Frontline Health Workers Coalition and Save the Children Groundhog Day is the day in February where in the United States, people wait for a groundhog to emerge from his underground winter home to see if he sees his shadow. If he does, it means we will have 6 more weeks of winter...

By Fabio Castaño and Jonathan Jay, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Photo by Warren Zelman. Courtesy MSH. In a week and a half, as a team of our colleagues arrive in Ethiopia for this year’s International Conference on Family Planning, others will already be in Brazil for the Third Global Forum...

By Victoria Melhado , Women Deliver 100 Young Leader “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead Today, I say proudly that nurses are changing the world. Women Deliver 100 Young Leader Victoria...

By the American College of Nurse-Midwives' Department of Global Outreach The American College of Nurse-Midwives Department of Global Outreach is on a mission – to “lead global efforts that improve the health and wellbeing of women and infants worldwide through strengthening the profession of...

By Ann LoLordo, Jhpiego Lanyi, South Sudan – Not much can keep Mary Rose Dalaka from ensuring pregnant women in this verdant farming community receive the lifesaving care they need to survive childbirth. When the motorbike she was riding on got stuck in knee-high mud, this nurse-midwife hopped off...

By Heather Teixeira, Frontline Health Workers Coalition From 2009 to 2011, I lived at a small health clinic in a rural village, Mondo, in the Dodoma region of Tanzania. The clinic—staffed by two health workers: a nurse and an assistant nurse—served a population of 14,000 people. The clinic had been...

By Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition From the halls of the United Nations, to the set of Good Morning America, to the cheers from 75,000 gathered for a concert in Central Park – a common refrain reverberated in New York City last week: “health workers count.” Now, the global health...

By Mandy Moore, Global Ambassador, PSI PSI Ambassador Mandy Moore visits with the patient of a community health worker in a small village in Cameroon. Courtesy PSI. Two years ago I traveled to Cameroon with global health organization, PSI. We set out from the capital city of Yaoundé and traveled by...

By Kirstin Krudwig, SC4CCM Malawian frontline health worker Petro Kangulu describes how to take medication prescribed to a sick child. Courtesy JSI. As a frontline health worker in Malawi, Petro Kangulu is one of approximately 4,000 health surveillance assistants (HSA) focused on improving the...

By John Byabagambi, University Research Co. Working with frontline health workers to improve medicines use and management in HIV care NOTE: This post originally appeared in the K4Health Blog. Humphrey Megere and Tana Wulji, both URC staff of USAID’s Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems...