Primary Care & Systems Strengthening

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Financial Times Photo Essays and Special Report
The Center for Health Worker Innovation collaborated with the Financial Times to produce a series of photo essays that explore and build awareness of the challenges and opportunities facing the global health workforce.
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Voices From the Front Line
Mobilizing the Community to Eliminate Preventable Blindness in Children
Recognizing myopia as a public health problem, the Chinese Government launched a comprehensive national plan for the prevention and control of myopia. Village doctors like Pan Taoling have a large role to play in achieving the government’s goals.
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Voices From the Front Line
“I am an Advocate for the Patient and a Voice for the Voiceless”: Meet a Health Worker Empowered to Serve Her Community Through a Unique Model of Care
Sister Nomthandazo Lerumo is the first nurse within the Unjani Clinic network to achieve ownership of a Johnson & Johnson-funded clinic—and one of 92 nurses to date equipped through the network to own and lead the effort in transforming South Africa’s healthcare system.
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I am the System, We are the System
Thinking systemically and providing opportunities for those operating at all levels of the health system to engage in a transformative journey from curative to resilient health.
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Equipping Healthcare Professionals to Embody Systems Thinking
A journey to help change leaders navigate complex challenges, map and diagnose systems, and engage others with far-reaching change processes.
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Forum for the Future and the Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation: Creating Space for Redefining Health
Grounded in the belief that community health is a vital mechanism for shifting to a resilient healthcare system, we dig deeper into the ways we can enable that shift to happen and identify the levers of transformation.
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Voices From the Front Line
Community Health Workers are Improving the Survival and Well-Being of Mothers and Newborns in Guatemala
Photo story contributed by Elizabeth Bocaletti, Carolyn Boyce, Glendy De Leon, Rudo Kashiri, Ana Maria Us and Goldy Mazia for Save the Children. All photos courtesy of Save the Children.
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Strengthening Health Worker Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa During COVID-19
Now more than ever, we are working with our partners to understand and address well-being and resilience of health workers in resource-limited settings and to shine a spotlight on the critical need for awareness and sustainable mental health intervention for those at the forefront of providing care.
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New Alliance Convenes Key Players to Support Nurses and Midwives in Kenya
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New Alliance Convenes Key Players to Support Nurses and Midwives in Kenya
Voices From the Front Line
This Nurse Leader in Liberia Is Making Sure Mothers and Babies Get the Healthcare They Need
As Liberia country director for Last Mile Health, Marion Subah is working with the Liberia Ministry of Health to scale and sustain the country’s first national community health worker program.
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