Community health worker programmes after the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak

Affiliations

¹ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America (USA).
² Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA .
³ Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA .
⁴ Communication for Development Section, United Nations Children's Fund, New York, USA .
⁵ Last Mile Health, Boston, USA .
⁶ Partners In Health, Boston, USA .
⁷ Directorate of Primary Health Care, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone .
⁸ Earth Institute, Columbia University, Conakry, Guinea .
⁹ Directorate of Prevention and Community Health, Ministry of Health and Hygiene, Conakry, Guinea .
¹⁰ Liberia Incident Management System for Ebola Response, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Monrovia, Liberia .

Henry B Perry et al. Bull World Health Organ. 2016.

. 2016 Jul 1;94(7):551-3.

doi: 10.2471/BLT.15.164020. Epub 2016 Jun 2.

¹ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America (USA).
² Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA .
³ Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA .
⁴ Communication for Development Section, United Nations Children's Fund, New York, USA .
⁵ Last Mile Health, Boston, USA .
⁶ Partners In Health, Boston, USA .
⁷ Directorate of Primary Health Care, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone .
⁸ Earth Institute, Columbia University, Conakry, Guinea .
⁹ Directorate of Prevention and Community Health, Ministry of Health and Hygiene, Conakry, Guinea .
¹⁰ Liberia Incident Management System for Ebola Response, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Monrovia, Liberia .

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