On May 16, 2026 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that major outbreaks of Ebola disease constituted a global health emergency. Although not at pandemic level, the rapid spread of the rare
The Community Health Worker (CHW) class started on April 27, marked by the official opening of WIRED International’s second CHW Training class this year. Dr. Fredrick Oluoch, County Director of Public Health
WiRED International’s Community Health Worker (CHW) Program now offers a sustainable three-pillar framework designed to elevate the capacity of communities to fortify healthcare delivery and
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Seasonal long rains have caused widespread flooding across Kenya, resulting in loss of life, destruction of critical infrastructure, mass displacement and
Ten years ago, WiRED International made a strategic pivot that felt like a calculated risk: we shifted our entire health awareness focus toward training community health workers (CHWs). At the time, we couldn’t have
In 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a resolution to establish guidelines for community health worker (CHW) training — having recognized for years that CHWs could fill the gap in health care found in
Gary Selnow has asked me to write this essay no fewer than 1,031 times, which is, more or less, a lens through which we can understand how WiRED has thrived for decades supporting some of the
WiRED International just added a new module called Advanced Rehydration and Diarrheal Disease Management module to our resource library. If you live in a country where medical services are available
Infectious diseases — such as cholera, malaria, mpox, measles — are skyrocketing. Sadly, many of the infectious diseases found in low-resource regions of the world are already endemic. These areas
Why did WiRED International believe it vital to create a training program dedicated solely to the concept of One Health? One Health recognizes the intrinsic link between human, animal and environmental health.