Carey Westgate

Carey Westgate is the deputy director at the Community Health Impact Coalition. A global health practitioner and former management consultant with nine years of professional experience, including five years of field experience across sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, Westgate previously worked for Deloitte Consulting, Living Goods, and Live Well Social Enterprise. Carey is completing her MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and holds a BA in Political Science and Spanish from Wake Forest University.

A health worker holds a girl to give her polio vaccination drops during a house-to-house anti-polio vaccination campaign in Yemen's capital Sanaa, April 12, 2016.
Governance

Without Community Health Workers, the Global COVID-19 Response Could Fail

by Carey Westgate, Ash Rogers, Jessica Cook, Stella Luk, Daniel Palazuelos, Mandy Folse, Sarah Lindsay, Pauline Keronyai, Amanda Yembrick, Madeleine Ballard

Community health workers have played a vital role in global health efforts

Nurse Tatsanee Onthong, 26, receives help putting on PPE before attending to a COVID-19 patient in the ICU at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 22, 2020. Picture shows a nurse being helped into her PPE. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
Trade

COVID-19: It Ain’t Over Until There’s PPE All Over

by Madeleine Ballard, Carey Westgate, The Community Health Impact Coalition

None of us are safe until all health workers are protected. The time to start is now.