News
On our news pages you will find blogs, media releases and other pieces of writing which explain the relevance of REACHOUT’s work to real world challenges. Please come back to this section of the site in a few months to read more.
News stories
- NEW Paper: Antenatal testing for anaemia, HIV and syphilis in Indonesia – a health systems analysis of low coverage
- Sharing knowledge and experience on quality improvement for community health and sustaining change 10 Sept 2019
- The dynamics of gender norms in the context of community health, 8 March 2019
- REACHOUT at the Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, 1 October 2018
- Webinar - Mobile community health data systems: Experience from India, Ethiopia and Madagascar, 10 July 2018
- LSTM Seminar: Community Health Systems for achieving universal health coverage: panacea or poison?, 6 March 2018
- In Shebedino REACHOUT’s Quality Improvement approach is here to stay, 6 February 2018
- BRAC JPG School of Public Health celebrates five years of REACHOUT research in Bangladesh!, 18 January 2018
- New maternal health promotion resources from Indonesia, 03 January 2018
2017
- “Now I know how to do my job…”: how community health services in a Kenyan urban slum improved, 20 December 2017
- The journey of a referral card: Implementation, embedment and challenges, 18 December 2017
- Challenges and barriers in accessing Menstrual Regulation services in Bangladesh, 11 December 2017
- Problem solving on maternal health: Experience of Shebedino Quality Improvement Team in Ethiopia. 5 December 2017
- A Community Health Worker gender action framework: Implications for decent work, rights, and responsibilities, 27 November 2017
- Reflections on the Salima Quality Improvement team experience, 20 November 2017
- Towards a Community Health Worker Gender Action Framework, 9 November 2017
- Ava’s story: How do gender norms effect close-to-community provider retention in Bangladesh?, 8 November 2017
- Ensuring data quality? Let’s walk in the shoes of Community Health Workers in Kenya and Malawi, 27 September 2017
- The first step in saving life: Community health workers of Bangladesh and menstrual regulation, 20 September 2017
- Is my job worthwhile? A story of an Indonesian village midwife, 20 September 2017
- Community Health Volunteer backpacks: The heavy burden of community health worker responsibilities, 19 September 2017
- Village Health Volunteers in Indonesia: Negotiating changes in health seeking behavior with pregnant women, 18 September 2017
- Measuring quality in Malawi’s community health system: Barriers and challenges, 31 August 2017
- Do devolved Kenyan county governments prioritise universal health coverage?, 10 August 2017
- Improving maternal health in Shebedino district, Ethiopia: Positive stories need to be told, 1 August 2017
- Universal Health Coverage: The economists’ perspective, 26 July 2017
- REACHOUT at the 10th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, 20 July 2017
- From colonial medicine to global health: sharing REACHOUT results with a Dutch audience, 18 June 2017
- What did we learn at the Inspiring Communities workshop?, 17 June, 2017
- Revolutions in the economics of health systems: iHEA Congress 2017
- Inspiring communities in global health: Community Health Workers and Universal Health Coverage, 26 May 2017
- How does community health relate to wider development discourse?, 8 May 2017
- Agency Among Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia, 11 April 2017
- Research uptake: Learning from policy makers in Kenya, 5 April 2017
- Emerging issues related to gender and community health workers, 27 March 2017
- Women in the changing world of community health work, 17 March 2017
- What does trust have to do with Community Health Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals?, 6 March 2017
- Community health workers – optimizing the benefits of their position between communities and the health sector, 23 February 2017
- Achieving Equity: Women at the interface of community health systems, 15 February 2017
- REACHOUT at the Kampala Community Health Worker conference, 11 February 2017
- Building a resilient and responsive health system needs strong community support 10 February 2017
- Recognition of best performance of community health workers: experiences from Malawi, 7 February 2017
- Online discussion on community health workers: Join in, 4 January 2017
2016
- Four tips for embedding quality improvement in community health worker programmes, 9 December 2016
- Community health workers: great potential for resilient and responsive health systems, 28 November 2016
- Close-to-community providers and menstrual regulation, 25 November 2016
- Indigenous knowledge and intersectionality: “Incremental radicalism” and front line health workers, 23 November 2016
- REACHOUT at the Flinders University Indonesian Alumni Symposium, 2 November 2016
- Community health worker symposium: Kampala, February 2017, 24 October 2016
- Meet REACHOUT at the Global Symposium #HSR2016, 17 October 2016
- E-health in Sidama Zone: Improving the social currency of health extension workers?, 19 September 2016
- REACHOUT at the 2016 Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, 23 August 2016
- The challenges of implementing research in the context of health system devolution in Kenya, 18 July 2016
- Announcing our new USAID SQALE project: Strengthening community health in Kenya, 8 July 2016
- REACHOUT partners from Asia, Africa and Europe converge for their annual meeting in Bangladesh, 4 July 2016
- Exploring lessons learnt from Close-to-Community Health Worker Programmes: A symposium, 20 June 2016
- How equitable are Community Health Worker programmes?, 31 May 2016
- How relationships shape community health workers’ performance in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique, 13 May 2016
- Co-constructing knowledge about health with the young people of Korogocho informal settlement, 28 April 2016
- Embedding Group supervision to ensure quality maternal health services in Shebedino District, Ethiopia, 15 April 2016
- Community engagement in Ethiopia: Efforts towards improved maternal health, 29 March 2016
- Practical training on e-health delivered by REACH Ethiopia, 23 March 2016
- Junior doctors in the UK are striking: How to motivate the health workforce, 25 February 2016
- Working with what we’ve got – an(other) reflection on human resources for health
- Webinar: Community health workers - the gender agenda #HSGGENDER, 8 February 2016
- Panel on community health workers at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference, 7 January 2016
- Putting the politics into international public health, 5 January 2016
2015
- Most Significant Change: Community evaluation of programme implementation through stories, 16 December 2015
- Quality improvement cycles to strengthen close-to-community services: REACHOUT reflections, 10 December 2015
- Kenya develops guidelines to strengthen Community Health Dialogue, 7 December 2015
- Capacity building for better health: policy, research and practice, 27 November 2015
- A learning agenda and “NICE guys”: reflections on capacity, 16 November 2015
- The Netherlands: Symposium on community health workers, 11 November 2015
- Close to community providers and community action to address maternal health in Cianjur, Indonesia, 9 November 2015
- REACHOUT at the Canadian Conference on Global Health, 3 November 2015
- Alignment, engagement and collaboration: approaches to ensuring Quality Improvement is embedded, 2 November 2015
- Participation, perspectives and possibilities: Mobiles, Development and Global Health, 29 October 2015
- REACHOUT holds Consortium meeting in Indonesia, 26 October 2015
- We must move beyond the ‘pay vs. no pay’ debate for community health workers, 6 October 2015
- Why we use a group supervision approach in REACHOUT, 22 September 2015
- Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: How can it support close-to-community providers?, 10 September 2015
- Announcing a new research collection on community health workers, 8 September 2015
- Twitter chat: People-centred research methods for health system development, 28 July 2015
- Research can be a challenge: Reflections on ethical and practical dilemmas faced by our team in Bangladesh, 25 June 2015
- Innovation alive and well in Bangladesh and embodied in REACHOUT, 18 June 2015
- Why do health inequities persist in Kenya? What difference can community health workers make?, 9 June 2015
- Kartini and women's lives, 11 May 2015
- REACHOUT contributes to Ebola enquiry, 27 April 2015
- Implications of the community health policy change in Kenya in light of world health worker week #WHWWeek, 10 April 2015
- REACHOUT quality improvement cycle in Indonesia: Our work in pictures, 9 April 2015
- Communicating better about community health workers: Reflections on #ResUpMeetUp, 30 March 2015
- Gender Equity Analysis: A necessary prerequisite for addressing gender related outcomes, 24 March 2015
- Kenya and Sierra Leone: A wake up call in light of Ebola, 14 March 2015
- International Women’s Day 2015: Celebrating women’s role in the promotion of primary healthcare in Ethiopia, 8 March 2015
- Experiência como primeiro autor de um artigo – Lições aprendidas e desafios, 14 January 2015
- What I learned through the process of being a first author on a REACHOUT paper, 9 January 2015
2014
- A REACHOUT update from Ethiopia, 8 December 2014
- A REACHOUT update from Indonesia, 4 December 2014
- A REACHOUT update from Kenya, 2 December 2014
- Three positive outcomes in one: The REACHOUT external review, 01 December 2014
- Community dialogues to support maternal health: lessons from the world’s newest nation, 26 November 2014
- A REACHOUT update from Malawi, 25 November 2014
- Reflections on a visit to the Pregnant Women's Forum in Howoleso Kebele, Southern Ethiopia, 21 November 2014
- REACH Ethiopia win the Kochon Award for their services to TB, 29 October 2014
- REACHOUT honourable mention in photo competition, 20 October 2014
- REACH Ethiopia nominated for the 2014 Kochon Prize, 9 October 2014
- Partnerships with community health workers key to resilient and responsive health systems, 7 October 2014
- Supporting engagement for close-to-community health systems in South Asia, 6 October 2014
- What did we hear about community health workers at the Global Symposium on Health Systems Research?, 6 October 2014
- Our ‘emerging voice’ Rosalind McCollum provides an update, 29 September 2014
- UK International Development Select Committee report on health systems, 12 September 2014
- Join us for a meeting of the Thematic Working Group on Community Health Workers, 11 September 2014
- Reaching out to the Department for International Development on Close-to-Community Providers, 25 August 2014
- Call for Papers! Supporting and strengthening the role of close-to-community providers, 13 August 2014
- Building research relationships in Njiru and Kasarani Sub-Counties (Kenya), 8 August 2014
- Ethics and Gender: reflections from the Global Health Bioethics Network Summer School in Malawi, 18 July 2014
- On maternal health, future First Lady has her work cut out for her, 17 July 2014
- UK International Development Select Committee Hearing into Health System Strengthening, 2 July 2014
- 5 key questions on close-to-community programmes as part of a broader health systems approach, 27 June 2014
- Close-to-community providers and human resource management in Africa, 25 June 2014
- Sally Theobald is taking part in a live question and answer session on health systems for the Guardian, 24 June 2014
- Join us at the Health Systems Symposium in Cape Town, abstracts of sessions available, 23 June 2014
- Storify from the Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery Consultation, 18 June 2014
- Building a close-to-community research agenda which is fit for the future, 18 June 2014
- Background paper on close-to-community providers now available!, 11 June 2014
- Impact of community health workers: Current evidence base and essential focus areas, 10 June 2014
- REACHOUT at the Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery Consultation, 6 June 2014
- Some emerging issues from the REACHOUT inter-country analysis, 18 April 2014
- Perspectives: The Complexity of CHW Training, 24 March 2014
- From ‘Basket Case’ to ‘One of the Great Mysteries of Global Health’: How did Bangladesh become such a success story?, 18 March 2014
- Attend our event on close-to-community providers of health care at the Cape Town Symposium, 20 February 2014
2013
- "Remote rural" in Ethiopia, 27 November 2013
- REACHOUT at the Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, 25 November 2013
- Sharing and learning in Amsterdam, 25 November 2013
- Dazzling Dhaka: Impressive and intimate, 29 October 2013
- From dawn ‘til dusk: Bonding over data in Nairobi, 14 October 2013
- James P. Grant School of Public Health: Reaching out and building strength, 11 October 2013
- Women and girls at the heart of the community response to TB, 9 October 2013
- “Working for health is equal to a pastor who works for God”, an update on REACHOUT in Mozambique, 27 September 2013
- Community health workers, 'The eyes' of the Ministry of Health and 'a shield' to protect the community's health, 24 September 2013
- REACHOUT at Women Deliver, 08 July 2013
- Close-to-community providers and maternal health in Indonesia, 04 June 2013
- Launch of REACHOUT Consortium held at LSTM, 24 May 2013
- New website on close-to-community providers of healthcare launched, 22 March 2013
This project is funded by the European Union.