Madeleine Ballard is the executive director of the Community Health Impact Coalition, operating across 30+ countries to make professionalized community health workers a norm worldwide. She is also an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and was previously the founding program manager at Last Mile Health.
Community health workers need to be integrated into public health systems at all levels, now more than ever. Here are 10 practical ways this can — and should — be done.