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Community Health Heroes

Raj Panjabi has a bold idea: to recruit and train an army of community health workers to bring medical care to the billion people around the world who lack access to it. See how technology is transforming things for health workers like Serena and Prince -- and how TED's just-launched initiative, the Audacious Project, is amplifying their impact. Learn more at AudaciousProject.org.

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Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences

Keywords:

Community health services Public health personnel Smartphones

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Video
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What If We Digitally Empowered Community Health Workers?

Raj Panjabi's life work has been to support and employ community health workers in the country of Liberia, where he grew up. In this talk, the TED Prize winner expands his vision. Over the next three years, his nonprofit Last Mile Health will partner with Living Goods to get smartphones to community health workers in six countries in Africa, bringing quality care to more than 34 million people.

Subjects:

Management of Health Care Services

Keywords:

Smartphones Public health personnel Community health services

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Video

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