Community
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We lost what we had, but we resettled in America, and as immigrants, we benefitted from the
community
of supporters that rallied around us.
That mantra and my parents' persistence and that
community
of supporters made it possible for me to go through college and eventually to medical school.
At the age of 18, she completed high school, and she came back to her
community.
What if we could have
community
members like Musu be a part or even be the center of our medical team?
Working as part of our team, working as paraprofessionals,
community
health workers can help ensure that a lot of what your family doctor would do reaches the places that most family doctors could never go.
One of my favorite things to do is to care for patients with
community
health workers.
Last year, we hired and trained A.B. as a
community
health worker.
I'm so inspired by these
community
health workers.
And this disease would spread from one
community
to another.
When Ebola threatened to bring humanity to its knees, Liberia's
community
health workers didn't surrender to fear.
Some ten thousand
community
health workers risked their own lives to help hunt down this virus and stop it in its tracks.
And most of all, we've learned from the courage of Liberia's
community
health workers that we as people are not defined by the conditions we face, no matter how hopeless they seem.
It's true, these
community
health workers aren't doing neurosurgery, but they're making it possible to bring health care within reach of everyone everywhere.
What we also know is that if we trained an army of
community
health workers to learn even just 30 lifesaving skills, we could save the lives of nearly 30 million people by 2030.
People are worried that technology is going to steal our jobs, but when it comes to
community
health workers, technology has actually been vital for creating jobs.
If we truly want
community
health workers to master those lifesaving skills and even more, we've got to change this old-school model of education.
And I've been thinking that it's time; it's time for a collision between the digital education revolution and the
community
health revolution.
We will bring those to
community
health workers around the world, including A.B. and Musu.
And we'll create a network of companies and entrepreneurs who've created innovations that can save lives and help them connect to workers like Musu, so she can help better serve her
community.
And we'll work tirelessly to persuade governments to make
community
health workers a cornerstone of their health care plans.
We're so honored to be part of this community, and a
community
that's willing to take on a cause as audacious as this one, so I wanted to offer, as I end, a reflection.
She lived in an isolated
community
in the forest that had gone for 100 years without any health care until ... until last year when a nurse trained her neighbors to become
community
health workers.
When the local residents heard that there would be genetically modified mosquitoes tested in their
community
some of them began to organize protests.
And in the African-American community, it's been the work of many hundreds of years to find a way to lift ourselves up.
So can painting
community
murals or birding or fostering old dogs that no one else will.
And I think that when you are in a position of looking for leadership, you have to look inside and mobilize in your own
community
to try to create conditions for a different kind of settlement.
Now, my experience really became intense at Partners in Health in this community, Carabayllo, in the northern slums of Lima, Peru.
And in this community, we started out by really just going to people's homes and talking to people, and we discovered an outbreak, an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Now, one of the ways to make up for those jobs is to turn
community
health workers into a formal labor force.
They're really meant to be designed for the neighborhood in which they reside and the
community
which they serve.
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