CHH fosters partnerships to improve global health delivery.
St. Paul's Health Center, Kenya. A dynamic team-based approachCHH work-teams are interdisciplinary groups of graduate students and young professionals who come together to serve a given health care organization on a particular project or set of projects. This business model is a hybrid of the “consulting” and “partnership” approaches to global health assistance. Like the best consulting firms, CHH focuses on high-performance, team-based delivery of concrete services. In addition, however, CHH identifies the organizations with which it works not as “clients” but as true partners; in a spirit of solidarity and social justice, CHH aims to provide as broad a portfolio of services as necessary in order to build the capacity of its partners to improve the health of the poor and marginalized. Building a global community of practicePartnership is paramount: we must all work together if we are to succeed in alleviating poverty and unnecessary suffering. To this end, CHH aims to build a global community of practice, in which CHH work-teams, sister organizations and external partners will come together to learn from one another about key challenges in global health delivery. By sharing practical, real-time knowledge and experiences, members of the CHH Community of Practice will build an invaluable repository of best practices and analytic tools for the implementation of health programs and interventions in grassroots, low-resource settings. In this way, like-minded organizations will truly work in partnership to serve those who long to live health and fulfilling lives. |