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BERNICE DAHN: There are a lot of best practices

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within countries that we do not take advantage of.

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And so every country is going to struggle

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to find solutions to their problems, when we can actually not

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reinvent the wheel but use some of the best practices,

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adapt them to a country's situation, and use them for a quick impact.

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And one of those is the community health workers program.

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There have been a lot of arguments in different meetings

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about the impact of community health workers.

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But one common thing that comes out of those meetings

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is that, yes, they do make an impact.

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So if they do make an impact, then it is about time

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that we all look at it as a part of the bigger health workforce that

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is delivering to reach the last mile.

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The Global Fund, for example, will have money for community health,

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for health workforce.

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How do we harness these resources, mobilize domestic resources in addition

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to it, and be able to use them efficiently and effectively

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to make an impact?

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The experience from Liberia in building our systems for emergency preparedness

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and response, acting while learning, and making it available to the rest

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of the world who is in need for it--

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Liberia itself is struggling with community health insurance scheme,

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for example.

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And I know that Rwanda has a very good model that we can learn from.

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But how do we move away from sending one or two persons to Rwanda to learn?

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How do we make this information more public and consciously

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know that, besides the online information,

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there are technical aspects that can also

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help to build technical expertise within your country,

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and you will have it as a sustainable program within your country

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to be able to move forward?

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How do we pull all the different best practices from on the continent,

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especially from countries that have high burden of diseases,

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to be able to turn the disease tide down and to be able to save

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lives and achieve our global goals?

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So I think, from the Academy, we can learn lessons from here

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and to be able to move into another phase to be able to help the globe.

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With that, we should be able to, as countries pull the best practices

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together in areas where people can have access to information easily,

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like we are doing now with the Community Health Academy.