Source Content for Community Health Workers, developed over 40 years.

1. December 12, 2013
Global Health Content
for Local Solutions
Source Content for
Community Health
Workers:
You don’t have to
reinvent the wheel!

2. 40 years of content
targeted to
Community Health Workers
General primary care
Women’s health
Midwifery
Disability
Dentistry
Early childhood development
Environmental health
HIV
Health worker training

3. 40 years of experience
supporting adaptation

4. Field Testing

5. Field Testing
Jamkhed, India

6. HealthWiki
Lightweight, flexible format
that:
• Is suitable for slow or
intermittent Internet
connectivity
• Enables timely updates
of medical information,
allowing updates to
ripple out to translations
partners
• Facilitates adaptation of
content

7. Copy And paste
Facilitates adaptation
of content for
repackaging

8. Navigate
easily across
languages

9. Image Library
• Over 12,000
Hesperian images
perfect for
Community Health
Workers
• Online and
searchable by
keyword

10. Keyword
Search
Number of pages
with results
Metadata to refine the
search

11. Easy to purchase and
download
Create a “lightbox”
for your collected
images

12. Hesperian Content in
Multiple Formats
Print materials
Tablets and
e-readers
Mobile phonesOnline
HealthWiki
PDF downloads

13. Safe Pregnancy and Birth
Available in English and Spanish
Over 125,000 downloads from 192 countries
Hesperian Mobile app
Winner of the Intel Corporation and Ashoka
Changemakers “She Will Innovate” competition
HIFA study listed it as 1 of 7 apps (out of 1600) that
empower people with access to healthcare
information when faced with an emergency situation

15. New
Where There is No Doctor
• Major revision of our classic book
• Will include new content to address the changing health
needs of the 21st century
• Envisioned to be the blueprint and source content for
CHW training programs and resources around the globe
• Publishing as online modules on the HealthWiki
• 7 modules/ advance chapters already online and being
used, and some of this content is already in 11 languages

16. Sarah Shannon
Executive Director
Hesperian Health Guides
1919 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
www.hesperian.org
(510) 845-1447
sarahs@hesperian.org
Contact Information