This project is part of the Canadian Collaborative for Global Health. The Collaborative brings together Canadian and global partners to generate solutions to urgent data challenges in global health and gender equality.

This project is part of the Canadian Collaborative for Global Health. The Collaborative brings together Canadian and global partners to generate solutions to urgent data challenges in global health and gender equality.

Trained community health volunteers provide access to essential primary health care services in contexts where the health system lacks capacity to adequately deliver them. In Liberia, the Ebola outbreak further disrupted health system function. The objective of this study was to examine the value of a community-based health system in ensuring continued treatment of child illnesses during the outbreak and the role that volunteers had in Ebola prevention activities.

Our goal was to identify best practices for improving farm and dietary diversity through participatory communities. We studied farming biodiversity, farming practices, dietary diversity, the food market and natural resources, and conducted analyses that will allow us to develop and test interventions that could improve farm and dietary diversity.