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Our training resources are designed to equip health professionals, program leaders, community organizations, and development partners with practical knowledge and implementation skills to advance effective, equitable, and sustainable health interventions. Below you will find resources, learning materials, and practical tools created to support individuals, communities, and organizations working to improve health and well-being for all.
Start here: Click here to take a free eight-hour training on CBIO led by Dr. Henry Perry and other CBIO experts.
CBIO and PHC Training Videos
Multiple training videos
Seven lecture CBIO Training, the 2023 Duke University CBIO workshop in English, Spanish and French, plus Dr. Perry’s free Coursera course.
Foundational Documents
21 documents
The original 1993 CBIO volumes, methodology descriptions, manuals, and interviews with CBIO pioneers.
CBIO+
41 documents
Extending CBIO with Care Groups and community birthing centers.
CBIO Evaluations
29 documents
Project evaluations and impact assessments from Bolivia, Guatemala, Haiti, Liberia, and the United States.
Research & Related Programs
103 documents
Published research on CBIO health impact, community health worker programs, the 2019 polio supplement, and the investment case for community-based primary health care.
Training Materials
70 documents
Field guides, data collection forms, registers, and training modules in English and Spanish.
Related Literature
27 documents
Articles, reports, and reference works on primary health care and community health more broadly — the wider literature CBIO draws on.
Dr. Perry’s Books on Primary Health Care:
- Engaging Communities for Improving Mothers’ and Children’s Health — a comprehensive review of the evidence on how community-based primary health care improves the health of mothers, newborns, and children in resource-constrained settings, drawing on decades of research and field experience.
- Health for the People: National Community Health Worker Programs from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe — a 478-page reference surveying national community health worker programs around the world. Each country case study follows the same structure, covering history, health needs, program design, supervision, financing, impact, and challenges — a resource without equal for anyone working in community-based primary health care.
For more information on Dr. Perry, please see his CV.
The origins of CBIO
John Wyon on the history of community-based primary health care — the foundation on which the CBIO approach was built.
For information about hands-on implementation partnerships, visit the Impact Global Health Alliance (IGHA), pioneer in CBIO.