PATH Program

Primary health care

With help from a broad range of global and local partners, PATH works with national and subnational governments to reimagine primary health care (PHC) through a multi-disciplinary, person-centered approach that improves health and well-being for all.

What we do

Advancing person-centered care

Recognizing PHC as the critical pathway to achieving universal health coverage, PATH's primary health care program accelerates the development of multidisciplinary, high-performing primary health care services. Strong PHC is not only essential to accelerating progress toward health for all, it is also the world’s first and best line of defense against epidemics, pandemics, and health threats like antimicrobial resistance and climate change.

Partner with us.

Let's advance primary health care around the world.

By the numbers
A few results from 95 PHC projects that PATH has conducted across 50 countries:
12 k
displaced Ukrainians received medical examinations.
13 k
Vietnamese gained access to essential health services.
20 k
Ghanaians screened for hypertension during COVID-19 vaccination.
  1. Kimberly Green

    Global Program Director, Primary Health Care

  2. Muyiwa Tegbe

    Deputy Director, Primary Health Care

  3. Katharine Shelley

    Deputy Director, Integration & Metrics

  4. Amy Heyden

    Global Program Administrator, Reproductive Health

  5. Ashley Jackson, MSPH

    Team Lead, Sexual and Reproductive Health

  6. Debjeet Sen

    Early Child Development Team Lead

  7. Elizabeth Rowley

    Senior Global Advisor, Gender Programs and Research

  8. Helen McGuire, MHA

    Program Leader, Noncommunicable Diseases

  9. Johannes van Dam, MD, MSc

    Program Leader, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis and Health Systems Innovation and Delivery

  10. Kiersten Israel-Ballard

    Maternal, Newborn, Child Health & Nutrition, Acting Team Lead

  11. Amy Dempsey

    Communications Officer, Programs and Innovation

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