To choose between a community health vs. public health career path, think about your goals and skills. Community health professionals tend to get more face time with the people they serve, whereas ...

Twelve-year old Anna has asthma. She lives in a low-income neighborhood and gets her care at a clinic affiliated with a major teaching hospital. Despite high-quality medical care, Anna’s asthma is not ...

Public health is an exciting field with a variety of career opportunities focused on preventing disease and promoting health and well-being. Public health professionals can be found in local and state ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — A nurse supervisor at Montefiore Comprehensive Health Care Center in the Bronx was delivering her start-of-shift updates and mantras — “Covid is not finished with us … clean, clean, clean!” ...

In southern Oregon, a Coordinated Care Organization (CCO) AllCare Health looks beyond the medical setting to address the foundation of individual and overall health: community wellbeing. With ...

Memo from Ellen-Marie Whelan looks at community health centers and their potential to deliver jobs and economic growth. Community health centers across our country have a 45-year history of providing ...

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community they ...