"Health care providers and community health workers...need to transform beyond providing health services (competence and knowledge) to become trust agents (morality and compassion for the people they serve) fostering community ownership and engagement while serving as pillars to strengthen service delivery."
"Surveillance programmes should be designed with inputs from local communities and frontline implementers." Since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched in 1988, surveillance has been one of the key strategies for interrupting the transmission of poliovirus and tracking progress.
"[G]lobal health programs can continue to learn from each other's implementation experiences more effectively when this experience is captured and made available in user-friendly formats." Two global eradication efforts, the Smallpox Eradication Program (SEP), which was launched in 1959, and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), which was