IntraHealth International announces the publication of “Increasing Community Health Worker Productivity and Effectiveness: A Review of the Influence of the Work Environment” in the journal Human Resources for Health. In this new research article, policy-makers, program managers, researchers, and students will learn which factors in the work environment affect a community health worker’s performance and, ultimately, determine the effectiveness of community-based strategies.

October 24, 2012, Washington, DC—The Frontline Health Workers Coalition has received a $750,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, awarded to coalition member IntraHealth International, to support the group’s mission to urge greater and more strategic U.S. investment in frontline health workers in developing countries. Building this workforce is the most cost-effective way to save lives and foster a healthier, safer, more prosperous world, the coalition says.

CIO East Africa reported on IntraHealth’s FUNZOKenya project in an article by Martin Kinyua, Norbert Boruett, and Wanjiru Kan’gara.

The Frontline Health Workers Coalition has received a $750,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, awarded to coalition member IntraHealth International, to support the group’s mission to urge greater and more strategic U.S. investment in frontline health workers in developing countries. Building this workforce is the most cost-effective way to save lives and foster a healthier, safer, more prosperous world, the coalition says.

IntraHealth International announces the release of iHRIS Retain, a freely available and open source software tool that estimates the costs of plans to attract health workers to serve in a rural region—and to keep them there. The tool allows health sector officials to easily compare the costs of various combinations of retention strategies over time.

Pape Gaye's blog entry, "Our Commitment to the Kenyan Health Worker," was featured in the Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report.