Carol Bales
Strategic communications manager
Carol Bales provides strategic communications for IntraHealth and its programs and coalitions. She’s a versatile communicator and advocate with more than 15 years of experience working in global health. She currently focuses on writing and visual storytelling and is passionate about improving health equity and amplifying health worker and client voices. She serves on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition secretariat, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition steering committee, and the Community Health Workers Champions Network advisory board.
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Meet Marguerite Diarra. She’s On a Mission to Train More Midwives and Increase Access to Maternal Care in Mali
For International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating women like Marguerite who inspire us, and donors, to #InvestInWomen.
How Is Our USAID Project in Central America Partnering with Communities and Community Health Workers to End AIDS?
Communities are at the forefront of progress in the HIV response.
How Can Nurses Support Digital Health and Vice Versa?
Seven questions for Olivia Vélez, nurse, developer, and IntraHealth’s chief digital health officer.
How Can We See More Smiling Babies in Rwanda and Around the World?
Health workers are key, says Kayinamura Mwali Assumpta, along with ensuring they have the training, support, and equipment they need.
What Will It Take to Get Nurses the Respect and Recognition They Deserve?
Tracy Kobukindo knows how to bring more nurses to the table.
This Is a Big Moment for Health Workforce Advocacy and Policy Change
Here are some of the wins and opportunities the Frontline Health Workers Coalition is tracking.
How Can Health Leaders Improve Respect and Recognition for Midwives?
Olajumoke Adebayo has some ideas.
Listen to Nurses: Applause Is Not Enough
Here's what they need to be safer, healthier, and better prepared to do their jobs.
Nurse Leadership: In Their Own Words
We set out to document what nurses think about nurse leadership and the gender-related barriers they face at work. Here's what they had to say.
5 Lessons from Top Global Experts on How to Support the Health Workforce
National policies and investments during the pandemic are only part of the story.
Frontline Health Workers Abroad Help Protect Us—Let’s Support Them
Having enough health workers won’t make diseases go away, but it can prevent them from becoming pandemics in the first place.
It's Time for Nurses Like Beth to Lead
They have the skills to lead multidisciplinary teams and improve health services for us all.
Policy Changes in Tanzania and Beyond Unleash Full Power of Nurses
Part of the Frontline Perspectives series for the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife.
Advocates of Universal Health Coverage Push for Clear Milestones, Accountability
After this week's high-level meeting at the UN General Assembly, we’re left asking one big question.
On the Hill to Advocate for and Honor Health Workers
World Health Worker Week was a time to educate lawmakers on the tremendous impact of frontline health workers.
Four Women behind Tanzania’s Fight to End AIDS
They're working to prevent HIV in two of the country’s hardest-to-reach areas.
This Nigerien Med Student Has a Plan to Tackle Family Planning Taboo
She's working with young religious leaders to revolutionize sex ed in Niger.
Safety for Frontline Health Workers Paramount to Ebola Response and Global Health Security
The threat in DRC may no longer be containable and could become endemic.
She Fights TB and HIV Door-to-Door on this Tanzanian Island
Community health workers like Nanzula link their neighbors to the essential primary health services they need.
This Tanzanian Couple Plans Together, Dreams Together, and Fights HIV Transmission Together
A simple procedure is lowering the risk for thousands of couples in Tanzania.
In Central America, New Adherence Promoters Keep HIV Clients on Treatment
Carlos considered dropping out of everything. Then he met Aracely, an adherence promoter.
Now, Safer Deliveries for Women in Tajikistan
In just a year, home births in Bokhtar District have been cut in half.
How Do You Become a Humanitarian?
Ghiath Alddin Zeen was forced to leave Syria, but continues to find ways to help his people.
What's Not a Target
Health workers and facilities are supposed to be protected by the rules of war, but they're still being attacked.
Through Bullets and Bombs to Reach Health Care
In conflict areas around the world, health workers like Patrick in South Sudan continue to risk their lives to do their jobs.
Picture It: Health Workers Provide Care for Mothers Every Day
Happy Mother’s Day to moms—and the health workers who care for them—everywhere!
WASH Works, So What Are We Waiting For?
October 15 is Global Handwashing Day. That's great. But what if the only water you have to wash with is dark brown?
The Human Touch We Need for Universal Health Coverage (and All Global Health Goals)
We strive for a world where everyone, everywhere has the health care they need to thrive. Our new photo exhibit provides a glimpse into that vision as it becomes a reality.
Let’s Keep the Keepers
Mohammed Adamu Adangba dedicates his life to helping vulnerable children. How can we support him and other social service workers to provide care and services to more people that need them?
What’s So Rosy about Garden City?
On International Women's Day we remember the dedicated women we met at Garden City University College who are making women’s health happen.
“I’m a Health Worker”: Dr. Arturo Carrillo
Meet Dr. Arturo Carrillo. He's fighting to end discrimination and stigma in El Salvador's health services.
Emergency Care Comes into Focus in Ghana
In the emergency ward where she works, Dr. Eno Biney tells us how she saved a woman’s life the day before and how things might have turned out differently just a few years ago.
Dr. Christian Osae Obirikorang: "I'm a Health Worker"
What's most exciting about being a lecturer of molecular medicine at the School of Medical Sciences in Ghana? Dr. Obirikorang tells us.
One Nurse's Best Day at Work
Meet Phylis Cherono Siele, a nurse in Kenya's Tenwek Mission Hospital whose joy comes from helping clients find hope, even in the most difficult times.
Greater Support for Social Service Workers Leads to Better Care for Children
This year, 6.6 million children under five won’t reach their birthdays.
Meet Eight Health Workers Who Love Their Jobs
During World Health Worker Week, we’re celebrating the people who provide life-saving care.
Empowering Health Workers to Improve Service Delivery in Uganda
Agnes Masagwayi loves her job, but it hasn't always been easy. Fortunately, things are looking up for Uganda's health workers.
At the Source of Health Care, Health Workers
We picked Malik Jaffer’s brain about health worker heroes and what it’ll take to make more of them.
A Human Being as a Human Being
In Lira, Uganda, Mary Philomena Okello is the only palliative care nurse for miles. Carol Bales tells the story behind the photos.
Greater Access to Midwives like Jenny: For Women around the World and Here in North Carolina
A few hours after I delivered my daughter three years ago, one of my midwives, Jenny Cox, stopped by to see how we were doing.
Health Is Wealth
Meet three men in Africa who share two key beliefs: access to health care for all people is vital, and healthy people build strong economies.
Picturing Our Work: Protecting Health Workers
In this photo from Ile de Gorée, an island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, Carie Cox reminds us how health workers often sacrifice their own health or safety in order to care for their patients.
Responding to the Urgent Need for More Health Workers: Rebecca Bailey on Health Workforce Education and Training
At 23, CapacityPlus’s Rebecca Bailey mailed two applications: to law school and to the Peace Corps.
Nine Reasons We Place Health Workers at the Center of Our Efforts
Maureen Kanyiginya is a young midwife with a gentle and confident presence. Meet her and others through our new video series.
Picturing Our Work: Who’s There?
IntraHealth's Dykki Settle was excited to show me his photos from his latest trip to Uganda to support the launch of the country’s HRHIS.
iHRIS: A Year of Development
As IntraHealth's global project wraps up its second fiscal year, we're sharing a summary of its accomplishments.
iHRIS and eLearning: A New Direction for Capacity-Building
Kabelo Bitsang of the Botswana Ministry of Health, learned to maintain and customize the iHRIS software by studying online, working with developers around the world, and training in Ghana.
Domestic Organization Capitalizes on iHRIS Manage Software
iHRIS Manage, open source software created to support organizations in developing countries to design and manage a comprehensive human resources strategy, has now found a domestic audience. Recently...
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"That's Improvement!": Uganda Focuses on Health Workers
Meet three Ugandan health workers who love their jobs. Agnes, Habiba, and Alex find joy in serving their clients, but they face many challenges—and there are simply not enough health workers to meet...