We provide Community Health Worker Training and Continuing Medical Education without cost to all low-income communities

How we use our funds:

95%

on our Educational
Mission

0%

on Fundraising

5%

on Management and
General Admin

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 The Community Health Worker
(CHW)  Curriculum

  • World Health Organization compliant
  • Evidence-based, peer-reviewed, developed by doctors and nurses
  • Presented in interactive training modules
  • Instantly downloadable to phones/tablets for offline study
  • Taught by local instructors and CME module selection
  • Completion certificates available after successful qualifying examination
  • Continuing Medical Education (CME) program required for all CHWs to maintain certification
  • All material is offered without cost and registration
Academic journal article describing WiRED's CHW Curriculum

 The Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program

  • Offers 400+ modules on medical, health and community preparedness
  • Modules downloadable
  • Urgent training modules posted for emerging infectious diseases
  • Online CME Tracker allows CHWs to maintain credits
  • Open to WiRED-trained CHWs and to all other CHWs, without cost

What is HealthMAP?

A free app to:

  • Access to all WiRED’s 400+ heath training modules
  • Download any module you choose
  • Access your personal CME Tracking Program
  • Available globally on all Android phones from Google Playstore and on iOS from the Apple store

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CHW Training Details

for Community Leaders, NGOs, Ministries of Health and
Other Organizers in Low-Income Regions

The CHW Story

Since the start of the pandemic five years ago, a dedicated team of 20 community health workers (CHWs) has served the most vulnerable communities in Western Kenya. The informal settlements where they work present incredibly challenging living conditions: inadequate sanitation, lack of running water, and limited access to electricity. Residents cook over charcoal fires and live in densely packed, ramshackle huts constructed from scrap wood and tin, held together with tenpenny nails. This impoverished environment fosters severe health challenges.     -more-

WiRED’s Community Health Worker Training

After several years of field testing, WiRED International has released a cost-free, expertly designed program to train CHW paraprofessionals, aiming to boost their positive impact on community health in low-resource settings. Leveraging nearly two decades of experience delivering health education in underserved environments, WiRED has tailored this CHW training program for individuals in regions where access to medical care, communication, and technical resources is severely limited.   -more-

Saving CHW Deployment Costs

While WiRED’s CHW curriculum and CME are free, communities are often reluctant to establish CHW programs due to the recurring costs of deployment: management, CHW stipends, supplies, and other operational expenses. WiRED provides the educational elements of a CHW program but cannot fund deployment, which is the responsibility of each community. Recognizing that operational costs can discourage CHW programs in low-income communities, WiRED has developed several strategies to make deployment more budget-friendly.   -more-

WiRED, started in 1997

1997

WiRED launches work
in Croatia

In 1997, WiRED opened its first computer facilities in war-torn Vukovar, Croatia. Our work then continued throughout all the countries in the former-Yugoslavia.

2003

Expands work in Kenya, Central America, Iraq and more

WiRED received National Institutes of Health and State Department Funding for projects in Africa and Iraq.

2009

UC Berkeley awards WiRED “Health Hero”

Expanded programs in Central America, Africa and plans for 2010 work in Eurasia.

2019

Begins development of
CHW Training

Continues wide range of innovative CHW training programs on several continents. Begins One Health program.

2025

Expands CHW Training and launches CME program

Building on success, we expanded out CHW training program. Launched HealthMAP to deliver training modules globally.

WiRED Timeline

Webstories from the past 25 years

History Narrative

Personal stories about WiRED’s key projects

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Health Learning Center

400+ Health Training Modules

Free access to all of WiRED Health Training Modules
online or through HealthMAP

For online access

Click here or click a letter below to search for the topic you want

For access on a phone

download HealthMAP on Google Play Store or Apple Store

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For Community Health Workers

Set up an account on HealthMAP for free Continuing Medical Education program

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X-Y-Z

WiRED creates and releases modules designed to benefit public health and to reflect a full scope and depth of coverage of key health topics. We upgrade modules as needed to keep pace with medical advances. New module topics are often suggested by doctors and other health professionals to be of concern within the low-service communities they serve.

WiRED’s special series allow users to gain comprehensive knowledge on a given subject. Our series include packages on Mother and Child Health, Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Diabetes, Echocardiology and more. Also, we bundle modules into series in foreign languages such as Spanish and Armenian.

Our e-library allows physicians and nurses, community health workers and general audiences to address the prevention and treatment of both infectious and noncommunicable diseases in underserved regions. WiRED’s 400+ health modules are available free of charge by anyone anywhere for copying and download onto computers, flash drives and other portable storage media.

What People Say

“If I’d had the WiRED equivalent as Surgeon General, I could have changed the world. Because you have a distribution network, you have intellectual property, you have content that nobody else has. And you reach the world. And this is more than just a bunch of good people doing nice things for poor people. It’s much bigger. This is health diplomacy.”
Dr. Richard Carmona17th U.S. Surgeon General and WiRED Board Member
“Information is no longer a luxury for the rich. I don’t have to Google or blame everything on my superstition. All I have to do is access WiRED programs. I am in a better position to take care of my family and my unborn child.”
Brenda Akothmother, Kenya
“Ever since the launching of WiRED International 12 Centers for Health Education in Armenia, WiRED has proven to be a very instrumental and effective help to substantially improve the health within the Communities of Armenia, as well as increase the awareness in prevention necessities.”
Sebouh BaghdoyanDirector of WiRED-Armenia
“The Spanish-language health modules and the computer and AV equipment provided by WiRED allow us to take health education to where the people are — the isolated river-side communities of the many tributaries of the Amazon. The WiRED modules will be a core element of our boat- and land-based rural medical service expeditions, allowing us to effectively integrate education and treatment in the Amazon.”
Dr. Devon GrahamDirector, Project Amazonas, Peru
“Through WiRED I realized that it is possible to live a positive life after getting infected with HIV virus and it is possible to prevent the child from being infected by the mother.”
Lavender Amondistudent, Kenya
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We provide Community Health Worker training and Continuing Medical Education without cost to all low-income communities. Volunteer hours and monetary donations make a huge difference in our capacity to provide health education in low resource regions. WiRED is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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WiRED promises to spend your donation wisely. Your contribution will improve the lives of many thousands of people in low-resource regions. WiRED International is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our books are audited annually by Carey & Hanna, CPAs, Oxnard, California.

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by the OAS

Recipient of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health 2009 Organizational Public Health Hero Award. Read more >
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