The Need
When COVID-19 hit, healthcare facilities became both the frontline of response and one of its greatest vulnerabilities. For healthcare workers serving at-risk populations, the difference between safety and exposure often came down to one thing: knowing the right protocols and having the tools to follow them. Yet many institutions — particularly those outside major urban centers — lacked consistent access to updated infection prevention and control guidelines. Without urgent intervention, the gap in IPC knowledge threatened to compound an already overwhelming crisis.
The Intervention
Project SHIELD integrates online capacity building, facility-level self-assessment, and public health communication. It delivers online IPC training to healthcare workers across the Philippines using globally recognized content from Brown University, equips healthcare facilities with a remote self-assessment tool to evaluate their own infection control practices and identify gaps without waiting for outside support, and amplifies critical COVID-19 IPC information through a targeted social media campaign — ensuring that life-saving knowledge reaches beyond hospital walls and into the wider public consciousness.
Country:
Phillippines
SDGs
Key Priority Area/s:
Health & Sanitation Skills
Education & Entrepeneurship
Donor:
Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN)
Partners:
Project HOPE, World Surgical Foundation, Philippine College of Surgeons, PSQua, League of Municipalities of the Philippines, Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines, LGU of Muntinlupa, LGU of Makati, Health Metrics, APMC Student Network
HCWs Trained
Online training program developed and delivered for healthcare workers
Goals Achieved:
Hospitals Assessed
Hospital assessments conducted for infection prevention and control readiness
Goals Achieved:
Campaign Launched
Targeted social media campaign deployed on COVID-19 infection prevention and control
Goals Achieved:
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