Community Health Worker Symposium 2023

The 3rd CHW Symposium aims to facilitate the global exchange of knowledge and solutions to scale and sustain community health programs in order to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). The symposium will focus on sharing best practices on the complimentary and necessary systems to support scale.

R4D experts who are involved with USAID’s Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator are participating closely in the symposium. Their participation includes leading the 2nd day of the pre-conference and contributing to several of the symposium’s technical tracks:

  • Track 1: Institutionalizing and financing at-scale, sustainable community health worker programs for PHC2.
  • Track 2: Professionalizing, compensating, and protecting CHWs and other community-based and community-led workforce
  • Track 7: Digital health solutions to enhance CHW and other community-based and -led workforce programs
  • Track 8: Gender dimensions in community health and CHW programming

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