Madeleine Ballard

Madeleine Ballard, PhD is the executive director of the Community Health Impact Coalition, a field catalyst created by health practitioners in more than thirty 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. She holds a PhD in evaluation science (EBSI) from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and was previously the founding Program Manager at Last Mile Health. 

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.