1. Introducing Two New Resources for
Community Health Worker
Programming
Allison Foster and Ram Shreshta,
URC/ASSIST
Henry Perry, Johns Hopkins University
Karen LeBan, CORE Group

2. Workshop Schedule
• 9-10 AM
Presentation of the resources
• 10-10:45 AM Small group interaction with
the resources
• 10:45-11:45
• 11:45-12:00
Discussion
Wrap up

3. The Reference Guide
• The process of developing and writing the
Reference Guide: Karen Leban
• The content of the Reference Guide:
Henry Perry

5. Senior Writing Team
• Lauren Crigler, Crigler Global Consulting, formerly with the
USAID-funded Health Care Improvement (HCI) Project
• Claire Glenton, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health
Services
• Steve Hodgins, Saving Newborn Lives, formerly with
Maternal and Child Health Integrated Project (MCHIP)
• Karen LeBan, The CORE Group
• Simon Lewin, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health
Services and Medical Research Council of South Africa
• Henry Perry, Department of International Health, Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

6. Other Senior Authors
• Iain W. Aitken, previously with Management Sciences
for Health and Harvard School of Public
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• Christopher Colvin, University of Cape Town School of
Public Health (South Africa)
• Jessica Gergen, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health
• Wanda Jaskiewicz, CapacityPlus/IntraHealth
International
• Sharon Tsui, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health

7. Collaborating Authors
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Shelly Amieva, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Peter Berman, Harvard School of Public Health
Rachel Deussom, CapacityPlus/IntraHealth International
Dena Javadi, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Uta Lehman, University of Western Cape School of Public Health
(South Africa)
Elizabeth Salisbury-Afsar, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health
Kerry Scott, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Francisco Sierra-Esteban, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine
Rose Zulliger, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

8. TOC: Section 1: Setting the Stage
• Chapter 1. Introduction (Steve Hodgins, Lauren Crigler,
and Henry Perry)
• Chapter 2. A Brief History of CHW Programs (Henry
Perry)
• Chapter 3. National Planning for Community Health
Worker Programs Planning (Jessica Gergen, Lauren
Crigler, and Henry Perry
• Chapter 4. Governing Large-Scale Community Health
Worker Programs (Simon Lewin and Uta Lehmann)
• Chapter 5. The Financing of Large-Scale Community
Health Worker Programs (Henry Perry, Francisco SierraEsteban, and Peter Berman)

9. Section 2: Human Resources
• Chapter 6. Community Health Worker Roles and Tasks
(Claire Glenton and Dena Javadi)
• Chapter 7. Recruitment of Community Health Workers
(Wanda Jaskiewicz and Rachel Deussom)
• Chapter 8. Training of Community Health Workers for
Large-Scale Programs (Iain Aitken)
• Chapter 9. Supervision (Lauren Crigler, Jessica Gergen
and Henry Perry)
• Chapter 10. What Motivates Community Health
Workers? Designing Programs that Incentivize
Community Health Worker Performance and Retention
Incentives (Christopher Colvin)

10. Section 3: CHW Programs in Context
• Chapter 11. Community Health Worker Relationships
with Other Parts of the Health System (Henry Perry,
Steve Hodgins, Lauren Crigler, and Karen LeBan)
• Chapter 12. Community Participation in Large-Scale
Community Health Worker Programs (Karen LeBan,
Henry Perry, Lauren Crigler, and Christpher Colvin)

11. Section 4. Achieving Impact
• Chapter 13. Scaling Up and Maintaining Effective
Community Health Worker Programs at Scale (Steve
Hodgins, Simon Lewin, Sharon Tsui and Henry Perry)
• Chapter 14. Measurement and Data Use for
Community Health Services (Steve Hodgins, Dena
Javadi and Henry Perry)
• Chapter 15. Wrap up (Henry Perry, Lauren Crigler, and
Steve Hodgins)

12. Appendix
• Appendix 1. Case Studies of Large-Scale
Community Health Worker Programs: Examples
from Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Iran,
Nepal and Pakistan (Henry Perry, Rose Zulliger,
Kerry Scott, Dena Javadi, and Jess Gergen)
• Appendix 2. Current Perspectives of Large Scale
Community Health Worker Programs: Summary
of Findings from Key Informants Opinions (Sharon
Tsui, Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, Rose Zulliger and
Henry Perry)

13. How the Decision Tool and Reference
Guide Fit “Hand and Glove”
Decision Tool
• Shorter (40 pages)
• Quick to use for specific
question with quick links to
other sources
• Meant to be used
exclusively as a web-based
resource
Reference Guide
• Longer (>400 pages)
• Requires more time to
digest content, “academic
discourse”
• Meant to be used as a
“free-standing” document
or a web-based resource

14. How the Decision Tool and Reference
Guide Fit “Hand and Glove”
Decision Tool
• Extensive link to the webbased tools and resources
• Limited links to peerreviewed literature
• Description of case studies
very brief, though many
examples included
Reference Guide
• Limited links to web-based
resources
• Numerous references to
peer-reviewed literature
• Description of case studies
more extensive (including
Appendix with detailed case
studies of large-scale CHW
programs in 6 countries)

15. How the Decision Tool and Reference
Guide Fit “Hand and Glove”
Decision Tool
• Oriented primarily (but not
exclusively) to programs
that use volunteer CHWs
Reference Guide
• Oriented exclusively to
large-scale CHW programs

16. Four Questions
• Did you get the information you need?
• How did you use the resources to respond
to the scenario?
• What information is missing?
• How could the resources be made to be
more user-friendly?

17. • http://www.k4health.org/
toolkits/decision-makingtool-chw-programs