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By Mary Beth Powers, Chair of the Frontline Health Workers Coalition This week is Patient Safety Week – not widely recognized YET –but perhaps it should be… I had the opportunity to join the Patient-Safety Summit organized by the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Health...

By Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez, USAID and Pape Gaye, IntraHealth International Note: This blog was originally posted on March 4, 2013 in the USAID IMPACT blog. Ariel Pablos-Mendez (left), Assistant Administrator for Global Health and Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International. Photo credit...

By Julia Bluestone, Jhpiego The following is a Q&A between Julia Bluestone of Jhpiego and the Frontline Health Workers Coalition and Dr. Henry Perry of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on a recently released report examining community health workers’ effectiveness in saving lives...

By Lisa Meadowcroft, Executive Director, AMREF USA In the slums of Tandale just outside of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 17-year-old sex worker Veronika wonders how she will ever take care of her newborn. At seven months pregnant, her clients are diminishing, she can’t afford rent and her family back...

By Donna Bjerregaard, Senior Technical Advisor, Initiatives Inc. Note: This blog was originally posted on Feb. 15, 2013, on the Knowledge for Health Blog. The global shortage of health workers has created cracks in the bridge to health services for Africa’s communities. Many countries and donors are...

By Mimi Pomerleau, Board of Directors, AWHONN As an OB nurse working in Boston and president of the Board of Directors of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), I was given the opportunity to visit Ethiopia to experience firsthand how engagement at the community...

By Laura Hoemeke, IntraHealth International Note: This blog was originally posted on Feb. 8, 2013, on the Intrahealth's Global Health Blog. First Pakistan, now Nigeria. Polio workers murdered on the job. Between December and January, at least 16 polio workers were killed in Pakistan, according to...

By Bob Gillespie, Population Communication I recently returned from Bangladesh where, as a Ford Foundation consultant from 1975 to 1978, I helped select, train, mobilize, supervise and evaluate 6,700 traditional birth attendants (TBAs), 13,500 Dais (village midwives), 13,500 family welfare...

By Jeff Meer, Public Health Institute Frontline health workers face enormous challenges and must be prepared to adapt to changing circumstances. One of the largest changes occurring in global health is increasing urgency for health workers to prevent, diagnose and treat non-communicable diseases...

By Kate Greene, Partners In Health Three years ago, a devastating earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince and its environs, killing more than 250,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. Many of us remember the intensive news coverage showing frontline health workers, both Haitian and those from around...