Yearly Archives: 2014

By Simon Murithi According to UNICEF, children with disabilities suffer from marginalisation and exclusion from society in various forms, such as negative attitudes towards them and their families, stigmatisation, and inadequate or a lack of policies and legislation. Together, these factors often translate into a severe infringement of disabled children’s basic human rights, such as…

Dr Anne Geniets has joined us as a post-doctoral researcher on the mCHW project. Anne is a developmental psychologist and a political communications and media scholar. Her research looks at communication and development in different contexts, focusing on inequalities, poverty, and social (in)justice: media consumption and socio-economic deprivation; structural inequality and structural violence; audience research…

We have a research position available on the project from May 1st 2014. We are looking for someone who is passionate about working with marginalised communities and would like to spent 4-5 months (non-continuous) in the field over the next year or so. You will participate in and contribute to all elements of the project,…

We’re excited to have joined the Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Community Health Workers as part of Health Systems Global (HSG). The aim to to support and strengthen the role of Community Health Workers in health system development. The CHW thematic working group brings together researchers, policy makers and practitioners who are grappling with how to…

Community Health Volunteers (CHVs)* in Kenya provide basic primary health care services at household level and serve as a link to existing health infrastructure in communities. The REFER mobile web app provides important support for CHVs working on the survival of the under-five population. It complements child welfare clinics provided at health facility level and…

Niall Winters gave a presentation at Oxford University’s Breaking Boundaries Seminar Series on 13 March 2014. He shared how mCHW is working with Community Health Volunteers and their supervisors to overcome specific barriers to delivering timely and effective healthcare in Kibera and Makueni. The Breaking medicinedrop.com Boundaries Seminar Series aims to bring together “researchers, policy…