Aggarwal went through a community health worker program, which recruits UNLV and CSN students to serve as a link between communities and the health-care sector.

The University of Wyoming’s Community Health Worker Training Program is an online, asynchronous training program that will give you the skills you need to become a fully-trained Community Health ...

UB researchers have received a grant from the Community Pharmacy Foundation to help add community health workers to pharmacies to better connect patients to critical services and lower health care ...

At its heart is the advocacy position. Those who enroll in the program are matched with a community health worker -- usually someone born and raised in the community.

How to Leverage Community Health Workers Workers embedded in local communities can be key to turning around neighborhood health.

Community health workers have long helped underserved and immigrant communities manage chronic conditions. But sustained funding is needed.

The Jakara Movement’s community health worker program is led by Punjabi Sikh residents but assists people of other faiths and ethnicities too.

Leveraging their shared life experience and local roots, community health workers aim to move the needle on long-standing health disparities.