About Us
About TRC Community
The Resilience Collaborative is a global learning community that aims to advance learning and drive adoption of evidence-based strategies for health worker resilience.
We are dedicated to addressing the needs of under-represented and under-resourced communities, including those working in lower- and middle-income countries through inclusive and participatory approaches.
By facilitating shared learning and resources, the impact that TRC aims to make is to strengthen the resilience and wellbeing of our frontline healthcare workers across the globe. The strategic measures we are adopting include connecting with HCW communities to improve their resilience through provision of evidence-based tools, enhancing leadership skills and agency to lead. This pathway, we believe, will contribute to quality care, and positively impact the health system.
The Resilience Collaborative was launched by the Johnson & Johnson Foundation in 2021 to support health workers and the organizations that care about them. The George Institute for Global Health is honoured to serve as the new host organization for this global community of practice, with initial funding from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation.
TRC Community Vision
In the words of the TRC team…
“Being on the frontlines translates to not just sustaining care but also enduring unequal risk and a measure of sacrifice. In many ways, TRC puts us, as the host team and implementation partners, in a place of privilege to engage with the larger communities of healthcare workers, as well as related organizations and sections of society – to discover and underline resilience in practice and to partner in applying those learnings to our shared contexts.”
“Responding to health workers’ wellbeing is a public health imperative that certainly needs prioritization. TRC allows an excellent platform to gather the feeble voices of health workers and hopefully amplify them enough for the fraternity to respond meaningfully. Personally, TRC to me means an exciting way to engage with this community to coproduce knowledge and develop meaningful solutions to improve health workers’ resilience and more importantly foster a sense of ownership among the health workers, who I believe are the principal owners of the knowledge being produced.”
The TRC team
A Community of Professionals dedicated to Healthcare Worker Wellbeing…
As hosts of the TRC, the George Institute team is a small commune of passionate, compassionate Healthcare professionals devoted to seeing healthcare workers and the systems they support thriving. Coming alongside us to make this vision reality are global social enterprises, committed to harnessing technology to ensure wellbeing, Reach and Dimagi.
Along with HCWs, members of the CoP and implementation partners, we aim to improve the resilience and wellbeing of healthcare workers through building their resilience and leadership skills by optimizing interventions for scale.
The impact that TRC aims to make is to improve the wellbeing of healthcare workers. The strategic additions we are adopting include connecting with HCW communities to improve their resilience through provision of evidence-based tools and enhancing leadership skills and agency to lead. This pathway we believe will contribute to quality care, and positively impact the health system.
The George Institute for Global Health is honoured to serve as the host organization for the TRC global community of practice, with initial funding from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation.
TRC’s role is instrumental to sustain an enabling environment for implementing evidence-based resilience-building programs and initiatives.
We are focused on addressing community health issues with evidence-based and impact-driven programs, with expertise in the areas of well-being and resilience, notably engagement with HCWs and allied stakeholder in the areas of digital health and innovations.
Dimagi is a global social enterprise that powers impactful frontline work through scalable digital solutions and services.
Since 2020, Dimagi has partnered with the Johnson & Johnson Foundation to advance digital resilience-building initiatives for frontline health workers (FLWs) globally. Through collaborations in India, Nigeria, Mexico, and Brazil, Dimagi tested the Resilience Message Program (RMP) published by The Resilience Collaborative and piloted the Companion Application, yielding promising insights into FLW well-being.
Building on feedback from these pilots, Dimagi launched WellMe—an application built on CommCare to support FLWs in building resilience building skills. It’s now supporting 1,000+ FLWs across six countries. WellMe integrates resilience-building messages with expert-designed content, fostering holistic health worker support.
With a vision to build a world where personal, uninterrupted healthcare is available to everyone, not only a select few, Reach Digital Health harnesses existing technology to educate and empower healthcare workers and the people they serve throughout their health journeys.
The WHO HealthAlert is a service that provides general health information to citizens and health workers alike, as well as free self-help interventions – with introductory interventions focusing on topics ranging from smoking cessation to nutrition and stress management.
The key focuses of the tool is to increase knowledge, to improve decision-making ability and to provide regular and reliable updates and alerts so that HCWs can provide better care to their patients and improve health outcomes in their communities.
