| WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes World Health Organization World Health Organization, 2018 | 253 | 2018 |
| Prioritising the role of community health workers in the COVID-19 response M Ballard, E Bancroft, J Nesbit, A Johnson, I Holeman, J Foth, D Rogers, ... BMJ global health 5 (6), e002550, 2020 | 231 | 2020 |
| Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes: an abridged WHO guideline D Cometto, Giorgio Ford, Nathan Pfaffman-Zambruni, Jerome Akl, Elie A ... Lancet Global Health, 2018 | 222 | 2018 |
| Risk of bias in overviews of reviews: a scoping review of methodological guidance and four‐item checklist M Ballard, P Montgomery Research synthesis methods 8 (1), 92-108, 2017 | 139 | 2017 |
| Systematic review of interventions for improving the performance of community health workers in low-income and middle-income countries M Ballard, P Montgomery BMJ open 7 (10), e014216, 2017 | 103* | 2017 |
| Remoteness and maternal and child health service utilization in rural Liberia: A population–based survey A Kenny, G Basu, M Ballard, T Griffiths, K Kentoffio, JB Niyonzima, ... Journal of global health 5 (2), 2015 | 68 | 2015 |
| Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 11. CHWs leading the way to “Health for All” HB Perry, M Chowdhury, M Were, K LeBan, L Crigler, S Lewin, D Musoke, ... Health Research Policy and Systems 19, 1-21, 2021 | 64 | 2021 |
| Implementation research on community health workers’ provision of maternal and child health services in rural Liberia PW Luckow, A Kenny, E White, M Ballard, L Dorr, K Erlandson, B Grant, ... Bulletin of the World Health Organization 95 (2), 113, 2017 | 58 | 2017 |
| 5-SPICE: the application of an original framework for community health worker program design, quality improvement and research agenda setting D Palazuelos, K Ellis, D DaEun Im, M Peckarsky, D Schwarz, ... Global health action 6 (1), 19658, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Global health priorities for the early twenty-first century P Farmer, M Basilico, V Kerry, M Ballard, A Becker, G Bukhman, O Dahl, ... Reimagining global health: an introduction, 302-339, 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| Compensation models for community health workers: comparison of legal frameworks across five countries M Ballard, C Westgate, R Alban, N Choudhury, R Adamjee, R Schwarz, ... Journal of global health 11, 2021 | 30 | 2021 |
| Stock-outs of essential medicines among community health workers (CHWs) in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs): a systematic literature review of the extent, reasons, and … A Olaniran, J Briggs, A Pradhan, E Bogue, B Schreiber, HS Dini, ... Human resources for health 20 (1), 58, 2022 | 28 | 2022 |
| CHW AIM: updated program functionality matrix for optimizing community health programs M Ballard, M Bonds, J Burey, HSF Dini, J Foth, R Furth, K Fiori, I Holeman, ... Washington (DC): USAID, 2018 | 27* | 2018 |
| Community health workers in pandemics: evidence and investment implications M Ballard, A Johnson, I Mwanza, H Ngwira, J Schechter, M Odera, ... Global Health: Science and Practice 10 (2), 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 10. Programme performance and its assessment M Kok, L Crigler, D Musoke, M Ballard, S Hodgins, HB Perry Health Research Policy and Systems 19, 1-14, 2021 | 22 | 2021 |
| Prevent, detect, respond: how community health workers can help in the fight against covid-19 SO Wiah, M Subah, B Varpilah, A Waters, J Ly, M Ballard, M Price, ... BMJ, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
| Continuity of community-based healthcare provision during COVID-19: a multicountry interrupted time series analysis M Ballard, HE Olsen, A Millear, J Yang, C Whidden, A Yembrick, ... BMJ open 12 (5), e052407, 2022 | 18 | 2022 |
| Concept note: Community health workers M Ballard, A Madore, A Johnson, Y Keita, E Haag, D Palazuelos, ... Harvard Medical School, 2018 | 18* | 2018 |
| Employing practitioner expertise in optimizing community healthcare systems M Ballard, R Schwarz Healthcare 7 (3), 100334, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| Practitioner expertise to optimize community health systems: harnessing operational insight M Ballard, R Schwarz, A Johnson, S Church, D Palazuelos, L McCormick, ... Community Health Impact Coalition 10, 2017 | 16 | 2017 |
