2 Million Community Health Workers

2 Million Community Health Workers (2mCHW)

The three core goals of sustainable development —ending poverty, ending exclusion,  and protecting creation—demand the activation of universal ethical principles including human dignity, social justice, the common good, and shared well-being. As Laudato Si’ demonstrated, common ethical concerns of the major world religions helped the world to adopt common goals for our “common home,” most notably the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) . Yet this initial synergy among religious,  social, and political leaders needs, for its full realization, a renewed orientation of values and ethics in relation to seven unprecedented challenges:

What We Do for Community Health Workers

The 2 Million Community Health Workers (2mCHW ) initiative is a health services program that provides health care services and training to areas in the developing world with little or no access to healthcare professionals. Community health workers are selected to serve within the communities in which they live. The initiative’s design minimizes cost and enables rapid program deployment.The 2mCHW initiative expands the one million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) campaign. This initiative is a more comprehensive program that meets the broader health targets set by Goal #3 of the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ).


The 2mCHW initiative is a sustainable health model providing a “demographic dividend” that accelerates economic growth, improves health care access, and health outcomes. The initiative also enhances productivity within communities and supports inclusive social development by providing job opportunities for women and youth.


Community health workers fulfill human resources and health infrastructure gaps for the communities they serve. Operating as the essential link between higher cadre health professionals and their communities, the workers provide preventative and other healthcare solutions aided by mobile smartphone technology and other communications infrastructure. The skilled medical professionals that have been historically necessary for providing these solutions require lengthy training, expensive educational coursework, and reside primarily in urban and developed areas.

The 2mCHW initiative supports broader healthcare services delivery through a multi-pronged strategy that allows the poorest populations located in rural and isolated areas with access to health resources.

The demographic composition of community health workers is overwhelmingly comprised of women. They are responsible for creating a multiplier effect that extends beyond their families to other members of their community. Additionally, every community health worker depends on adjacent professionals from other sectors (e.g. administration, finance, or technology) who add jobs and strengthen communities. As a result, this constellation of employment opportunities, training programs, and other resources contribute to greater economic development at local and national levels.

An accelerated one-year instructional program that includes a field-training component rapidly increases the volume of available community health workers. The 2mCHW initiative is designed to achieve scale with training modules that are developed for multiple countries with different languages. The educational curriculum covers a broad range of disciplines including family health, disease prevention and control, hygiene and environmental sanitation, health education, and communication components.

Community health workers provide the additional benefit of acting as the first line of defense in identifying diseases and outbreaks. If not adequately addressed and contained, these potential pandemics pose the risk of rapidly evolving into national health emergencies.
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Jennifer Gross Donates 5,000 Smartphones to the Community Health Workers Program

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