CHW Expert Interviewee Names, Backgrounds and Interview Summaries

Included here are three publicly available interviews Orb Media completed in the course of our work. Excerpts from these interviews are available in the reports we’ve provided. For the purpose of transparency, we present here transcripts and audio files for your use for background research and quotation.

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Madeleine Ballard, Ph.D.

Executive Director of the Community Health Impact Coalition and Assistant Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York

Dr. Ballard is the co-founder of the Community Health Impact Coalition, which exists to make professional community health workers a norm worldwide by identifying practices that lead to quality healthcare delivery and the accompanying partners that can help adopt these practices.

●      Date of interview: June 9, 2020

 

Dr. Wendy Leonard

Title: Founder and Executive Director of TIP Global Health (formerly known as The Ihangane Project)

Dr. Leonard is a physician specializing in family practice medicine. She currently practices in California one day a week. Her work is now primarily focused on HIV and providing holistic care to people living with HIV. Dr. Leonard first went to Rwanda in 2006 as a volunteer clinical mentor with the Clinton Foundation. Her work there continued through The Ihangane Project, which is now TIP Global Health. 

●      Date of interview: May 28, 2020


Esther Goh

Early Childhood Development Specialist at the Bernard Van Leer Foundation

Goh started her career teaching kindergarten. She then moved into working with the Singaporean government to create professional development strategies and government policies, much of which focused on professional developmental pathways for the early childhood workforce and policies that could further enhance early childhood development. She now works with the Bernard Van Leer Foundation on projects like Parents Plus, which works to bundle parent coaching with healthcare, education, or other existing services, and Urban 95, which focuses on how cities can be friendlier to young children and their caregivers.

●      Date of interview: May 29, 2020

 

Euniter Adoyo

Community Health Worker affiliated with the Lwala Community Alliance in Migori County, Kenya

Adoyo has been a community health worker (CHW) in her village since 2011. She has seen the evolution of her program, which started with very few CHWs and served many members of the community. The program has now expanded, recruiting more CHWs. She is currently responsible for about 70 families. Euniter’s role is not set, however, as people will often come from neighboring villages to consult with her so that they can obtain better healthcare, too. She aspires to be a CHW supervisor in the near future.

●      Date of interview: June 20, 2020

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