The Community Health Impact Coalition exists to make professionalized community health workers a norm worldwide. Members of CHIC and co-authors of this piece are: Carey Carpenter Westgate, deputy director at CHIC; Mathilde Hutchings, director of partnerships at PIVOT Works, Inc.; Nandini Choudhury, adviser at Possible Health; Helen Olsen, monitoring and evaluation senior manager at Medic, and Madeleine Ballard, executive director at CHIC.