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Enable community-centered care

We work to strengthen community-based healthcare, collaborating with those closest to the challenge to develop and deploy support and solutions in a culturally conscious way.
Officials from USAID, Johnson & Johnson and PAHO
Greg Howell, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator at USAID; Howard Reid, Global Head of Global Health Equity at Johnson & Johnson; Dr. Atul Gawande, Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID; Vanessa Broadhurst, Executive Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs at Johnson & Johnson; and Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Pan American Health Organization.

Johnson & Johnson Announces Collaborative Effort with USAID to Strengthen the Health Workforce Across Latin America and the Caribbean

Memorandum of Understanding will support the Americas Health Corps in its goal to train 500,000 health workers to help build strong and resilient health systems and bring more communities closer to care
A patient-friendly operating room
The refurbished patient-friendly operating room at Ntcheu district hospital in Malawi—before and after.KidsOR

Bringing orthopaedic surgical care closer to home for Malawi’s rural population

With timely surgical care, most long bone fractures can be easily repaired. Five new state-of-the-art operating rooms are making it possible for more patients in Malawi to recover quickly from their injuries.

Building the capacity of community-based primary healthcare services to achieve the goals of universal health coverage in China

Capacity building initiatives focusing on community-based primary healthcare services and mental health support are helping China achieve universal healthcare.
Two frontline health workers looking at a computer screen
Photo courtesy of Aga Khan University

Strengthening the resilience and well-being of frontline health workers in East Africa

The project aims to advance policy changes and build a robust community of practice that provides health workers with psychosocial support to deliver on health for all.

Linking Spanish speaking communities in our own backyard of New Jersey with essential frontline health workers

As trusted community members, promotoras—community health workers in Spanish speaking communities—are uniquely effective in immigrant communities because of their ability to establish meaningful relationships based on shared experiences, mutual respect and deep empathy.
We are closing the gap between communities and care by enabling access to our medicines and technologies, championing nurses and health workers and working together with community-based organizations.