CSR Program: Last Mile Health | Takeda Pharmaceuticals

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Training 8,000 community health workers to reach highly vulnerable populations

Scaling the national community health assistant program and delivering primary health care services

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The Program


Partner: Last Mile Health

Budget: 400 million yen

Term: 3 years

Launch: 2018-19

Area: Global

Visit the Last Mile Health websiteGo to https://lastmilehealth.org/

Training three million community health workers in 30 lifesaving skills could save 30 million lives by 2030. Founded on the belief that no one should die because they live too far from a doctor, Last Mile Health saves lives in the world’s most remote communities by partnering with governments to design, demonstrate, scale, and advocate for national networks of professional community health workers. Recruited from within their home communities, these workers strengthen health systems and transform health outcomes at the last mile by delivering an integrated package of lifesaving healthcare services directly to their neighbors’ doorsteps.

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Leaders Driving Change: Raj Panjabi, CEO, Last Mile Health


Biography: Raj Panjabi is co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health and Associate Professor of Global Health Equity at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He grew up in Liberia and fled the civil war as a child, returning to Liberia as a medical student to advise the Ministry of Health and serve as a clinician in rural facilities. He was named one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” (2016), and one of Fortune’s “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” (2015, 2017).

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