Training
In Rwanda, PIH training materials are used by doctors, nurses and community health workers.
By training physicians, nurses, health workers, and administrators in settings of poverty, a new generation of healthcare providers are learning to deliver comprehensive, community-based care in some of the world’s poorest and most remote places.
Training is one of the most important ways of reinforcing, replicating, and transmitting the PIH model. It starts with our own clinical and social service staff and with our partners in the community where we work – the patients and community health workers (CHWs) whose participation is critical to our success. We develop training systems and materials to help ensure quality and transfer learning and best practices across all our programs.
With a shortage of medical professionals in the countries where we work, training and paying community health workers to assist with many key medical functions is one of the most important elements of how we deliver health care and one of the first activities we undertake when starting a new engagement.
In Haiti, Peru, Russia, and Rwanda we have built regional or national training centers and helped our partners to launch ambitious training programs. While we train hundreds of clinicians and CHWs each year, other governmental and nongovernmental organizations use our free training materials. In this way, our training activities enable us to spread our model of care beyond the communities we serve to others who are also fighting poverty and disease.
Recent training publications
Accompagnateurs Curriculum
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Program Management Guide
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Non-Communicable Disease Guide |
Cholera Training Manual
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Training in action
PIH holds first community health worker training in the Dominican Republic. Read more.
As cholera spreads throughout Haiti, PIH offers specialty training to 2,000 health workers. Read more.
PIH leads interactive conversation: “Strengthening Health Systems: The Role of NGOs.” Read more.
PIH launches “how-to” guide for global health implementers. See the guide.
See other stories about PIH's training work.
Contact the training team: info@pih.org
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