A strong and accessible national health system, including at the community level, is critical for pandemic preparedness and response.n Community health workers who are equipped, trained, and paid as part of a well-functioning health system can help prevent epidemics from becoming pandemics and maintain health care delivery amid significant disruption. n To achieve resilient health systems, bi/multilateral aid and private philanthropies need to review their investment practices to replace those that cause harm (high transaction costs, earmarking, short-termism, appropriation of sovereignty) with practices that ensure timely and effective implementation of priorities set by government stakeholders (pooling, longer commitments, and alignment with evidence-based guidelines) CHWS ARE CRITICAL TO KEEPING PANDEMICS IN CHECKCHWs-if equipped with ongoing training, supervision, remuneration, medical commodities, and personal protective equipment (PPE)-can prevent, detect, and respond to pandemics by carrying out tasks as diverse as leading community-based infection prevention and control, facilitating safe sample collection, conducting contact tracing, accelerating vaccination roll-out, and
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