What is a Community Health Worker (CHW)? A CHW works within a community as a frontline agent of change, helping people navigate the healthcare system, incorporate health behavior change into their ...

In the U.S., where many minority populations have deeply rooted distrust of the medical system due to historical and ongoing barriers to high-quality care, it can be helpful when trained members of ...

During my (Figaro) experience as a CHW, I saw first hand the lack of mental health supports for youth and families. I served the Hispanic/Latino community in Davis County, Utah, during the COVID-19 ...

At Cedars-Sinai Health System, community health workers are addressing patients' social drivers of health and impacting key metrics such as readmissions. Cedars-Sinai Health System is generating ...

New Orleans-based DePaul Community Health Centers has been awarded a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to expand a community health worker program. DCHC’s ...

Kettering College landed a $1.8 federal grant to help it start a program that will grow the public health workforce in the region. The grant was awarded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services ...

In 2006, Tina Brown sat next to a Black colleague at a work meeting who shared she had just been diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. Triple-negative is a highly aggressive form of breast ...