90% of healthcare providers are women. By investing in them, paying them, and creating a career ladder – you are also then working on gender equity.

–Professor Senait Fisseha, Vice President of Global Programs, The Susan Thompson Buffet Foundation

We’re grateful to have an engaged community of partners across the globe. #Exemplars and Last Mile Health have been working together for years to identify the crucial role community health workers play in health care systems worldwide.

At ⁦McGill School of Population and Global Health⁩, we were pleased to host this amazing team working on exemplars in health equity!

⁦Ananya Tina Banerjee⁩ ⁦Ngozi⁩ ⁦Sarah Bosha⁩ ⁦Exemplars in Global Health⁩ ⁦Shehnaz Munshi https://africanhealthfutures.co.za/⁩ ⁦Georgetown Global Health Institute⁩ ⁦Vivian Qiang (she/her)⁩ ⁦Isabel Muñoz⁩

Senegal's immunization rates soared in under a decade due to dedicated health workers who provided access to lifesaving vaccines. At the start of #ImmunizationWeek , read #Exemplars research to learn about Senegal’s successful vaccine delivery strategies. bit.ly/4aLND2Y

Zinc is a critical micronutrient, and it is also one of the most common forms of micronutrient malnutrition globally. Research from #Exemplars partner Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta and others offers food fortification as a solution to address this deficiency. bit.ly/3W1qlRR

Exemplar countries like Ethiopia and Bangladesh reduced their under-five mortality rates by over 50% between 2000 and 2017. Join #Exemplars to learn how these countries made progress. ➡️ bit.ly/3W8qQcX

💥 NEW DATA—GBD 2021 study examines YLDs, DALYs, & HALE, providing in-depth burden estimates for COVID-19, published in The Lancet. Here’s what was found ⤵

Age-standardized rates of DALYs have increased for the first time in three decades: 4.1% ↑ in 2020 and 7.2% ↑ in 2021

New updates from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)’s Global Burden of Disease Study: life expectancy increased by 6.2 years worldwide from 1990 to 2021, driven by steep declines in deaths from diarrheal and typhoid diseases. #GBD2021 bit.ly/4cW6IRj

In her opening remarks for Day 2 of the 7th Annual #HealthFinancing Forum, Mamta Murthi emphasized that reaching universal health coverage is not only possible, but also necessary for reducing inequality and achieving economic growth.
 
#AHFF #InvestInHealth #HealthForAll

Exemplars in Global Health Exemplars in Global Health recently highlighted Vietnam’s efforts to enable breastfeeding in the workplace so that working mothers no longer have to choose between work and ensuring good nutrition and health for their small children. exemplars.health/stories/vietna…

Strong primary health care systems are key to achieving universal health coverage.

Learn how countries like Thailand and Ethiopia have achieved #UHC by strengthening #PHC and investing in health care workers. #Exemplars bit.ly/3xty2Gl

Research from #Exemplars partners Agnes Binagwaho and Lisa Hirschhorn showcases how health officials in Bangladesh reduced the impact of COVID-19 on child health outcomes by mitigating interruptions to care and utilizing digital health platforms. Read more. bit.ly/49Dv0fT

#Exemplars in Global Health investigates countries that have made extraordinary progress in important health outcomes and shares key insights. Join the conversation today. ➡️ bit.ly/49rmWie

Finally, our joint analysis within Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) on the global burden of 288 #causes of #death and #lifeexpectancy decomposition in 204 countries has just been released in The Lancet! Congratulations to all the co-authors! 💪

What has changed and what is needed to be emphasized?…

Community health workers are vital for establishing primary care in remote areas. #Exemplars News highlights how #CHWs can alleviate burdens on health facilities and reduce travel time and costs for patients. Emily Bancroft VillageReach bit.ly/3PR6IrT