Madeleine Ballard

Dr. Madeleine Ballard is CEO of Community Health Impact Coalition, a global movement making professional community health workers the norm by changing guidelines, funding and policy. Her work alongside the Coalition has been featured in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Lancet Global Health. Through research, advocacy, and organizing with community health workers, she's driven policy changes that ensure quality care for millions—including those who provide it. She also serves on faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Join the movement: joinchic.org

Quality care for all, including those who provide it.

Millions of community health workers are not paid, supported, or supplied. 70% are women. It’s a dual-sided human rights issue. CHWs are exploited and less effective for patients. So one billion people will never see a health worker. The debate is over. It’s fundamentally exploitative to expect the poor to volunteer as a condition to guarantee their own right to health. We are witnessing the emergence of the next great female-led labour movement; right up there with the garment workers

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