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Local health leader joins pandemic response at home and abroad By Jay Turner In a recently posted TEDx talk as part of a new series on “Surviving Pandemics,” Dr. Anatole Manzi of Canton speaks passionately about the health care challenges inherent across large swaths of Africa and the essential role that teachers can play there in the fight against COVID-19. Drawing on his own experiences growing up in rural northern Rwanda and his subsequent work as a global public health leader with Boston-based nonprofit Partners in Health (PIH), Manzi lays out his vision for a community-based health s...

Hundreds of local residents hired to accompany patients across five communities Posted on Dec 11, 2020 Maria Plata, a community health worker, goes door-to-door providing residents with information about how to protect themselves from COVID-19 in Immokalee, Fla. Photos by Scott McIntyre for Partners In Health Maria Plata, an Immokalee, Fla., native and daughter of a Mexican farm worker, was one of millions of Americans who lost their job when COVID-19 hit in early March. But several months later, she found a new opportunity among the first cohort of community health workers hired by ...