A groundbreaking initiative led by the Intermountain Health Community Health Team and Cheryl Swapp, a dedicated community health worker with the Sanpete County Sheriff’s Department, has significantly ...

Community health workers don’t provide clinical care, but serve as liaisons between the health system and their communities. Community health workers are sometimes called the “boots on the ground” of ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to learn more about the Master of Public Health program during a webinar Thursday, March 14, from noon to 1 p.m. The Master of ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 17, 2019, a community health worker prepares to vaccinate children against measles outside of Kuajok, South Sudan. As South Sudan emerges from a five-year civil ...

Trinity Health Of New England said Monday the state’s Congressional delegation has secured $1.27 million to help expand its community health worker program. The program provides social care services ...

Ten years ago, I (Sheringham) was going door-to-door, providing routine health checks, administering vaccinations, and managing cases of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and other debilitating diseases for ...

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. Kendra Lindsey smiles in a botanical garden in Baltimore, flanked by family members. They hold each other ...

Mozambique more than doubled its workforce of trained and active community health workers – from 3,380 in 2018 to 8,300 in 2022 The number of technical health staff assigned to primary care services ...

Sokoto House, a Wilmington program, graduated 20 community health workers/violence-prevention professionals. The program, led by Abdul Hafeedh bin Abdullah, trains individuals in conflict ...

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.