Ash Rogers

Biographic Data

ID8999868
NAMEAsh Rogers
GIVEN NAMESAsh
FAMILY NAMERogers
SIGNATUREROGERS A
AFFILIATIONSCommunity Partners
ORCID0000-0002-7480-930X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Essential aid made fully visible

    Open AccessCleo Baskin, Carey Westgate et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Community health workers (CHWs) play a critical role in extending healthcare services to underserved populations, especially in low-income and middle-income countries. Professional CHWs (proCHWs), who are salaried, skilled, supplied and supervised, are essential for achieving Universal Health Coverage and other global health goals. Despite the growing recognition of proCHWs, there is limited understanding of the global financing lan…

  • Teenage mothers report poor health and economic functioning in Western Kenya

    Open AccessAleksandra Jakubowski, Elizabeth Nakiyingi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Teenage pregnancy remains a critical issue in Kenya, with 15% of girls aged 15–19 having been pregnant. Counties in western Kenya experience high teenage pregnancy rates (22–30%) along with high HIV prevalence and widespread poverty. Long-term consequences of teenage pregnancy have been documented in high-income countries, but evidence from the Global South is lacking. Here, we examined the association between teenage pregnancy and adult socio-ec…

  • Willingness to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and associated factors in Migori County, Kenya

    Open AccessGianna Ferrara, Sandra Mudhune et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the daunting challenge of vaccine hesitancy. We aimed to describe attitudes towards virus containment and vaccination in rural Kenya. Identifying factors associated with willingness to be vaccinated and attitudes towards information sources and health worker outreach, will allow for targeted programming and prevention methods. Methods This was a cross-sectional observational survey. This study was condu…

  • Training and experience outperform literacy and formal education as predictors of community health worker knowledge and performance, results from Rongo sub-county, Kenya

    Open AccessAsh Rogers, Lou L Goore et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction: There is a growing recognition that Community Health Workers are effective at improving health outcomes and expanding health access. However, the design elements that lead to high-quality Community Health Worker programing are relatively understudied. We looked at the predictors of Community Health Worker knowledge of obstetric and early infant danger signs as well as performance in achieving antenatal care and immunization uptake a…

  • Lessons from an eight-country community health data harmonization collaborative

    Open AccessMadeleine Ballard, Helen Elizabeth Olsen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are individuals who are trained and equipped to provide essential health services to their neighbors and have increased access to healthcare in communities worldwide for more than a century. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) Guideline on Health Policy and System Support to Optimize Community Health Worker Programmes reveals important gaps in the evidentiary certainty about which health system…

  • Compensation models for community health workers

    Open AccessMadeleine Ballard, Carey Westgate et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: , there is an urgent need to better understand the types of CHW payment models and their implications. METHODS: This study examines the legal framework on CHW compensation in five countries: Brazil, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa. In order to map the characteristics of each approach, a review of the regulatory framework governing CHW compensation in each country was undertaken. Law firms in each of the five countries were en…

  • Prioritising the role of community health workers in the Covid-19 response

    Open AccessMadeleine Ballard, Emily Bancroft et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    COVID-19 disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable. Community health workers are poised to play a pivotal role in fighting the pandemic, especially in countries with less resilient health systems. Drawing from practitioner expertise across four WHO regions, this article outlines the targeted actions needed at different stages of the pandemic to achieve the following goals: (1) PROTECT healthcare workers, (2) INTERRUPT the virus, (3) MAIN…