Karolina Brook, student at Harvard Medical school participated during the summer 201 in an internship with ALIMA. One of ALIMA’s goals is working on Millennium Development Goal 4: targeting under-five mortality. One tactic to address the issue of childhood mortality is by decentralizing health care to village health workers.

Karolina’s project was determining what specific aspects of a community health worker could best be implemented in Niger – a population that is very different from others where community health workers have been successful. This poster summarizes her research goals, methodology, key findings, conclusions, and three-step implementation plan. Those results were  presented to her fellow students and faculty at Harvard Medical School on 12 January 2012, at the Soma Weiss poster session.