Jessica Charles

Jessica Charles is a global health professional with over twenty years of experience as a technical writer, project manager, communications specialist, and teacher trainer. She lived in China and Botswana for three years managing health and education projects and has supported field teams in more than twenty low- and middle-income countries implementing USAID, UNICEF, CDC, NIH, PEPFAR and privately-funded projects. Jessica holds a master's degree in global public health and a bachelor's degree in Writing.

A Syrian physical therapist with a prosthetic leg, wearing blue scrubs and gesturing compassionately talks to a patient, who also has a prosthetic leg at the Al-Bab Center for prosthetics. Both men are sitting in chairs talking eye-to-eye.

Governance

The Power of Health Information for People with Disabilities

by Joshua Korn, Becca Brunner-Caple, Cynthia Bauer, Jessica Charles

Knowledge gaps, data deficits, and stigma have stalled access to health information and care