Optimising scale and deployment of community health workers in Sierra Leone: a geospatial analysis

• Tanya Doherty,
• Debra Jackson,
• Nicolas Ray,
• Shane O’Connor,
• Andrew Curtis,
• Nicholas Paul Oliphant,
• Elizabeth Musa,
• Momodu Sesay,
• Joseph Kandeh,
• Anitta Kamara,
• Kebir Hassen,
• Yuki Suehiro,
• Hailemariam Legesse,
• Ebeny Francois Temgbait Chimoun

Affiliations

Tanya Doherty

School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa

Debra Jackson

Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery; Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Nicolas Ray

GeoHealth Group, Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Shane O’Connor

2FedEx

Andrew Curtis

GeoHealth Group, Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Nicholas Paul Oliphant

1 School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Elizabeth Musa

CHW Hub, Directorate of Primary Health Care, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Momodu Sesay

Directorate of Primary Health Care, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Joseph Kandeh

Directorate of Primary Health Care, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Anitta Kamara

National Malaria Control Program, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Kebir Hassen

UNICEF Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Yuki Suehiro

UNICEF Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Hailemariam Legesse

UNICEF Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Ebeny Francois Temgbait Chimoun

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland