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 ...

Trust, especially when it comes to health, is an act of deep vulnerability. Particularly when you don’t feel like anyone else truly understands what you’re going through, where you’ve been or the hard ...

Ohio University is offering a Community Health Worker Training Program at its Lancaster campus, starting Jan. 12 and running through May 2. The program, hosted by the Alliance for Population Health, ...

Community Health Workers are emerging as vital connectors between healthcare systems and Ohio’s diverse communities, addressing barriers like transportation, language access and trust that shape ...

The saying “not all heroes wear capes” is certainly true with community health workers. A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker with lived experience and local knowledge, ...

Ohio University’s CHW program has trained more than 500 participants since 2015, growing a community health workforce across ...

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 ...