Helping Health Workers Learn: A Book of Methods, Aids, and Ideas for Instructors at the Village Level

This 2012 updated reprint of Helping Health Workers Learn ensures that the book continues to be an accurate companion to Where There Is No Doctor, with updated references, new contact information for recommended organizations and materials, and changes to some of the appropriate technologies. All Hesperian books are regularly updated and reprinted to reflect accurate medical information.

Helping Health Workers Learn is an indispensable resource for all health educators. This heavily illustrated book shows how to make health education engaging and effective, while emphasizing a people-centered approach to care. It also presents strategies for effective community involvement through participatory education. Topics include

• activities for mothers and children
• tips for using theater, flannel-boards, and other techniques
• strategies for producing low-cost teaching aids
• and how to build on a community's traditions, experiences, and strengths

David Werner was a co-founder of the Hesperian Foundation, and is currently co-founder and director of HealthWrights, and a visiting professor at Boston University International School of Public Health. A biologist and educator by training, he has worked as a health activist for the past 40 years in village health care, community-based rehabilitation, and "Child-to-Child" health initiatives in the Third World, mainly Mexico.

Werner has worked in more than 50 countries helping to facilitate health workshops and training programs, and has been a consultant for UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, and the Peace Corps. He has received awards and/or fellowships from the World Health Organization, the American Pediatric Association, the American Medical Writers Association, and the MacArthur Foundation.



Bill L. Bower, M.P.H. is Director of Education and Training at the Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center at Harlem Hospital, and Assistant Clinical Professor at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

He worked with international health programs for over 20 years in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, focusing on the training of lay health workers, clinicians, and program managers. In the US, he has directed TB education and training efforts for 12 years as a Research Scientist for the New York City Department of Health Bureau of Tuberculosis Control and with the Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center, helping to form the Northeastern Regional Training and Medical Consultation Consortium, serving 20 state and city tuberculosis control programs.

Mr. Bower has also worked with the education and training efforts of the MTCT-Plus Initiative of the Mailman School of Public Health, launching HIV/AIDS care treatment programs in 13 sites in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand.