Training for community health : bridging the global healthcare gap / edited by Anne Geniets, [and 3 others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Anne Geniets, James O'Donovan, Laura Hakimi, and Niall Winters -- The role of technology in supporting the education of community health workers and their leaders / Raj Panjabi, Lesley-Anne Long, Michael Bailey, and Magnus Conteh -- Learning how not to train the community out of the community health workers / Daniel Palazuelos and Sanjay Gadi -- Approaches to community health worker training and supervision / James O'Donovan -- Digital health interventions for community health worker training, ongoing education, and supportive supervision: insights from a human-centred design approach / Beatrice Wasunna and Isaac Holeman -- Designing pedagogically-driven approaches to technology-enhanced learning for community health workers / Shobhana Nagraj -- Mobile phones and the uses of learning in a training intervention for Kenyan community health workers / Jade Vu Henry -- Using participatory approaches for community health worker training / David Musoke -- The danger of a single study: developing responsive evidence bases to inform research, policy, and practice on the training of community health workers in low and middle-income countries / Promise Nduku, Nkululeko Tshabalala, Moshidi Putuka, Zafeer Ravat, and Laurenz Langer -- Methods of evaluation of community health worker training: theory and practice / Celia Brown -- Recognition, mutual respect, and support: a relational approach to training and supervision in community health work / Maureen Kelley and Nigel Fancourt -- Conclusion: towards a pedagogy for community health workers? / Laura Hakimi, Anne Geniets, James O'Donovan, and Niall Winters -- Afterword: pedagogy of the technical and the political / Ṣèyẹ Abímbọ́lá.

Over a decade ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) identified a severe shortage of health care workers in the global health workforce (WHO 2006), with rural and low-income settings being disproportionately affected (Global Health Workforce Alliance, 2013). Simultaneously, emerging evidence suggested that the deployment of community health workers (CHWs) in these areas was helping to increase access to basic health care, particularly for underserved population groups (Lehman et al., 2007). More than a decade later, as highlighted in particular by the Ebola outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa and the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, CHWs have become an essential part of an increasingly stretched, yet interconnected, global health workforce.--