A CHW works within a community as a frontline agent of change, helping people navigate the healthcare system, incorporate health behavior change into their lives, and work toward overall health and ...

Bucking the norm, New York City-based Montefiore has opted to directly employ and embed community health workers within its clinical teams to connect patients with social services as part of broader ...

Community health workers are public health workers. Their goal is to connect communities with their health care systems and state health departments. Community health worker (CHW) is an umbrella term ...

The Biden administration is directing $226.5 million in American Rescue Plan funding toward a new multiyear training program for community health workers and health support workers, the U.S.

The Lupus Foundation of America’s (LFA) Community Health Worker (CHW) hub was created to increase awareness of lupus and knowledge of resources available. The CHW hub features on-demand learning ...

The UAB Department of Family and Community Medicine, in partnership with Live HealthSmart Alabama, has established a new elective course to improve community health curriculum for first- and second- ...

The Community Health and Human Services (CHHS) undergraduate program offers two concentrations that provide distinct pathways to professional training. Health Promotion and Education (HPE) is designed ...

Vinaya Gogineni Wendy B. Barr Robert L. Phillips, Jr. Stalled funding approval presents alarming consequences to our national health care system as programs are forced into gap years in producing ...

Local nonprofit ConnectionHealth was recently awarded a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to expand their ...

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, unveiled a legislative package Wednesday with billions in funding for community health centers and ...

The Wyoming Rural Health Institute has launched a Community Health Worker Training Program in the University of Wyoming College of Health Sciences. The initiative is designed to create new career ...

The Department of Public Health is announcing significant revisions to both the Community Health Education and Occupational Health & Safety concentrations within the major, which will be implemented ...