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Roads to health

(Roads to rural and vulnerable population health)




community | healthcare | research

Our team returned from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea for health missions to develop and improve rural health programs. We joined other colleagues to improve rural health, education, and agriculture(nutrition) programs as part of our goal for improving health outcomes.





Please click this to read an inspirational challenging life story from poverty and abuse to a blessed life of our Executive Director, Dr. Jallah Kennedy so as to understand why he is motivated to work with rural, poor, hard to reach, and other vulnerable population.


INVITATION TO SERVE ON A 25-YEAR LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH IN LIBERIA.


Roads To Health is developing the design of a six (6) to 25-year longitudinal health research in Liberia focusing primarily on maternal-child health, community-based participatory approaches, and infectious diseases. The research will predominately be conducted in rural parts of Liberia in locations that are especially hard to reach. The goal of the study will be to understand the impacts of agriculture (nutrition and food security), education (literacy rates and school-based), and health (access to primary health care, outreach, and service utilization) services can influence health outcomes especially among women and children



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Exploring the Roads to Rural, Hard to Reach, and Other Vulnerable Population Health



If we hold true (which we do) to the definition of health by the World Health Organization (WHO) that: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,"[1], then we should target several approaches to reach that goal. It is customary to think of health in the prism of the medical model. Equally important is to explore the roles of social factors that appear to play even more important influence. This is particularly evident for those who are poor, powerless, and with limited access to needed services. The wide inequality seen in all societies globally must be mitigated if everyone has to live healthy lives. The health of vulnerable populations is inescapably intertwined to everyone else including higher use of resources when they are sick because they cannot access primary/preventive health services, are part of the travel chains (e.g., spread of infectious and communicable diseases such as Ebola and flu...), and rely on social services we all pay into. Our approaches are to use several 'ROADS' including health, education, agriculture, cultural/traditional....to reach this utopian state of health. However, because we understand that reaching this perfect state is generally elusive or very hard to achieve, we take approaches to reach optimal health in the context of target communities toward primary health services.



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Our targeted ‘Roads’ are, therefore, based on the following Below



  • Exploring and using community-based primary health care approaches to manage the interplays of factors that affect the health status of rural and vulnerable people
  • Integrating existing systems (health, education, agricultures, social programs….) with community and external resources to improve primary health for vulnerable and rural population
  • Community-based participation, the Community as prime movers,….
  • Program based but driven by research/evidence-based focus As ‘cashless’ as possible….fund to target developments (human/training/education, access/roads, infrastructures, equipment, housing for rural staffs....)
  • Providing simple, inexpensive, and targeted services in rural areas and among vulnerable population can help to reduce several key poor health poor health indicators (maternal and child health, water and sanitation, and spread of infectious diseases).


[TARGETED] TYPES OF VULNERABLE POPULATION



  • Rural based dwellers
  • Dwellers in hard to reach or remote locations
  • Slum dwellers
  • Poorest of the poor [and often powerless]
  • Those with limited autonomy to make healthcare decisions (e.g., women and children, family planning options )
  • Those with limited or no [formal] education
  • Those who are underserved and underprivileged
  • Mentally ill
  • Elders
  • Disabled
  • Orphans
  • Minorities


Information on Deaths in Africa





Worldwide (Source: WHO): 5.9 million children under the age of 5 years died in 2015 - that’s about 11 children deaths every minutes. Most deaths are in Africa are preventable treatable with affordably simple interventions and mainly related to diarrhea, malaria, malnutrition, pneumonia, and birth complications. Every day, 830 women die because of pregnant and childbirth reasons – that’s about 35 deaths every hour. About 99% of these maternal deaths are in developing countries and mostly in Africa. The reasons for these deaths mainly include poverty, high teenage pregnancies, bleeding, infections, high blood pressure, unsafe abortion, childbirth complications, distance, cultural/traditional practices, and access to skilled health professionals/facilities



calendar ( This will be constantly updates for meetings)





Roads To Health and Lorma National Association scientific and fundraiser event in Minnesota from May 3-4 2019. Details to come.


Roads To Health Training Workshop on Developing Rural Health Programs Friday, November 16, 2018 from 6:30pm-9:30pm Eastern Time 6612 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19142


Guest Presenter at the THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF HEALTH, EDUCATE, PREVENT, PROMOTE, EVALUATE, NETWORK, SAFETY (HEPPENS) PROGRAM FOR EMPOWERMENT Theme: HUMANITARIAN SERVICES WITHOUT BORDERS Jubilee City Convenant Outreach Church 1040 South 57th Street PHILADELPHIA, PA 19143


December 2, 2017 - Atlantic City/Absecon, NJ


Presentations at North Hennepin and St. Paul College in MN. Also at the OLM Center November 17-19, 2017 - Brooklyn Park/St.Paul/Minneapolis, MN


[Program] Annual Health/Scientific Conference on October 20-22, 2017- Philadelphia, PA. The flyer for the event


July 7, 2017 - Silver Spring,

MD May 31, 2017 - Washington D.C

April 29, 2017 - New Castle DE

January 19-February 10, 2017 - Liberia

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Conducted a dialogue session hosted by the African Student Organization at the Richard Stockton University in Pomona, New Jersey on November 16, 2016 at 4pm EST. Diplomats from African countries were invited. A large delegation from the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo attended. Please click here for the invitation to attend the dialogue. Des Moines, Iowa. October 21-22, 2016. We are glad to partner with the Federation of Lofa Association in the Americas to carry out project activities in Lofa County. Dr. Jallah Kennedy served as keynote speaker at the Inauguration of the elected officers headed by Dr. Alex Johnson

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Participated in the anniversary active with Blessed Harvest Ministries in Philadelphia on 10/30/16 at 2pm.

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Brooklyn Park, Minnesota with the Barrobo United Development Association Friday 8/19/16 and Saturday 8/20/2016 Brooklyn Park Community 5600 85th Ave N, Brooklyn Park, MN 55443 _______________________________________________________


Saturday, 8/27/16 with Change Agent Network, Inc 1629 K St. Suite 300 N.W. Washington DC The event in Baltimore on Sunday, 8/28/16 at: 21 Reaching Circle Essex, MD 21221

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New York

Saturday, September 3, 2016 _______________________________________________________


New England Saturday September 3, 2016 27 Preneta Street Pawtucket, RI 02861 Sunday, September 4, 2016 Worcester

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Philadelphia/Darby Convention October 7-9, 2016 6612 Woodland Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19142 7766 Wayne Avenue Upper Darby, PA 19082

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