Recent research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia found a community health worker model currently implemented at the health system can be adapted ...

Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted frontline public health workers who often function as liaisons or intermediaries between health and social services and the community. Their activities can ...

In places like rural El Paso, Texas, community health workers (CHWs) help thousands of underserved individuals obtain the food, housing and medical services they need to survive. They speak the same ...

Public health after the COVID-19 pandemic must transform into a more effective force for improving health, especially in those marginalized communities that are at highest risk. Lessons from the ...

Jun. 26—MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he ...

Public health crises often converge, creating syndemics that exacerbate their collective impact. The intersecting challenges of HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and opioid overdoses illustrate this phenomenon, ...

Regina Gully knows what it’s like to need help and not know where to turn. Now, as a community health worker with Trinity Health, she spends her days making sure others don’t have to feel that way.