Madeleine Ballard

i've spent my career on one problem: why good ideas don't move, and how to fix it. Not by being more persuasive. Not by working harder. By making it easy for the right people, at the right moment, to say yes. 
I'm the CEO of Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC). For the past decade I've worked to align 100+ organizations across wildly conflicting priorities to win global health policy. CHIC is a global movement to make professional community health workers the norm by changing guidelines, funding, and policy. CHWs are one of the most cost-effective platforms for delivering primary care in low- and middle-income countries, but most of the world's CHWs are still unpaid, unsupervised, and under-supplied. We're changing that: 55 countries now nave national policies to salary, skill, supervise, and supply this workforce to provide excellent care.