On International Day of the Girl Child, we celebrate the women health workers who break gender barriers and serve as role models for girls--like Martina, a community health supervisor in Grand Bassa County, Liberia. To travel between communities and health posts, Martina earned her motorcycle license, something few women in the country get the chance to do. The girls in the communities she serves say, "Aunty Martina can ride, so I can ride too." #DayOfTheGirl
Last Mile Health
Non-profit Organizations
Our story started in Liberia, but our vision is global: a health worker within reach of everyone, everywhere.
About us
Founded by survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Last Mile Health’s mission is to save lives in the world’s most remote communities. We partner with governments to build strong community health systems that equip professionalized community health workers to provide essential, primary healthcare to rural and remote communities. We work side-by-side with Ministries of Health in Ethiopia, Liberia, Malawi, and Sierra Leone, and globally to transform community health financing through Africa Frontline First.
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- 201-500 employees
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- Accra
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2007
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- Global Health, Community Health, Health Systems Strengthening, Community Based Information Systems, National Health Worker Programs, and Government Capacity Building
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Dr. Issa Ouédraogo, Secretary General of Burkina Faso's Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, on generating community health solutions with Living Goods and Africa Frontline First: “This project will strengthen our capacity to respond to local health challenges. We will mobilize all the necessary resources to ensure its success.” On Living Goods's blog, read more on strengthening policy to improve care in remote communities: https://bit.ly/3Xzqcoa
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Last Mile Health honors Liberia Country Director Marion Subah for five years of leadership as she departs Last Mile Health, and welcomes Brittney M Varpilah, who is stepping into the role of Country Director after a decade on our Liberia team. With gratitude for Marion and Brittney's leadership, we are excited for our continued work alongside Liberia's Ministry of Health to strengthen the National Community Health Program. In Marion's words, “Community health is not everything—but without community health, health is nothing.” Read more: https://bit.ly/486ZGY9
Last Mile Health celebrates Marion Subah’s tenure as Liberia Country Director and welcomes Brittney Varpilah to the role - Last Mile Health
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Each year, UNGA is a powerful reminder of the building momentum for professional community health workers as part of resilient health system. #UNGA79 was no exception. Here are some of our highlights from the week: We hosted “Community Health Workers at the Forefront of Climate Adaptation,” in partnership with Macquarie Group and Johnson & Johnson. The event featured a fantastic group of speakers, including community health workers Margaret Odera, Ramatu Jalloh, and Bupe Sinkala. In partnership with Integrate Health, we convened a private roundtable on achieving gender equity in the community health workforce, alongside the Clinton Global Initiative 2024 annual meeting. The roundtable built on our 2023 CGI commitment to action and included powerful remarks from CHW Margaret Odera and Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Africa Frontline First and Africa Philanthropy Collective hosted “A dialogue with African leaders on scaling community health plans.” The event featured perspectives from Ministries of Health, funding partners, and community health workers to demonstrate the importance of supporting nationally-led community health plans. We attended event after event that highlighted the critical work of community health workers and continued powerful advocacy to ensure they are paid for their work and adequately equipped. This year, as every year, UNGA demonstrated that meaningful change comes not from working as a single organization, but from working as a movement.
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Last Mile Health reposted this
“A design flaw in the current set of big bets is that makers and takers of big bets tend to see the world through a capital market lens. There is a desire among us, and pressure from the social investors, to reach the “Social Unicorn” status.” 🦄📈💸 #SkollAwardees | Last Mile Health and Educate Girls collaborated on a thought leadership piece about how to improve Big Bet Philanthropy. 🔗 to full article: https://lnkd.in/gdqZF9Dk
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We co-founded Africa Frontline First to make financing more available and effective for countries, enabling national community health worker programs to deliver at scale. This includes unlocking financing for 17 African countries to accelerate their community health plans -- and in Guinea, where we're partnering with Integrate Health, the government has agreed to include #proCHW salaries in local investment plans, a major step toward securing fair pay for the community health workforce. Read the full story and what's next on Integrate Health's blog: https://bit.ly/3ZqouI5
Integrate Health Launches Project BIRCH Phase 2 in Guinea - Integrate Health
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More than 40 countries have policies supporting salaried and accredited community health workers. But less than half have costed those plans, and only 10 countries have a budget line for community health workers. At #UNGA79, we're calling for increased and coordinated investments in country-led community health worker programs.
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Investing in community health is a matter of life and death for people in the world's most remote communities. "I became a community health worker because I lost three of my kids between 2005 and 2009," says #proCHW Amadu Kamara. "They died due to lack of knowledge in my community on what to do when a child is sick. Their illness was preventable and curable." Today, Amadu delivers lifesaving primary care to his neighbors in Sierra Leone. At #UNGA79, he wants everyone to understand the urgency of building and sustaining strong community health systems, with #proCHWs as their foundation: "Community health workers are the backbone of primary health care delivery. Let us continue our work and training." Read Amadu's story: https://bit.ly/4gxUrV0
"I will save my children and my community": A profile of community health worker Amadu Kamara - Last Mile Health
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We've seen progress and momentum in the movement for paid, professionalized community health workers--and we call on health leaders and partners to support women CHWs from their recruitment and training through their service and advancement. Simply put, health equity is not possible without gender equity. Gender equity in the community health workforce is not a given. That's why we stand with women CHWs and partners including Integrate Health this week at #UNGA79 to advocate for gender-responsive policies and practices at all levels of community health systems.
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✨Starting Now✨Community Health Workers at the Forefront of Climate Adaptation, on the sidelines of #UNGA79. We're partnering with Macquarie Group and Johnson & Johnson Global Health Equity to: 1️⃣ Highlight the incredible work being done by CHWs to confront the impacts of climate change in their communities, and 2️⃣ Explore how to best equip them for this essential work We have a phenomenal group of speakers from mothers2mothers, Partners In Health, Community Health Impact Coalition, Sall Family Foundation, and Grand Challenges Canada.