Community Health Workers (also known as Promotores de Salud, Community Health Representatives, Community Health Advisors) are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community served.

The idea for the Community Health Worker Resource Hub grew from a desire to compile and share the vast body of work developed for CHW interventions and initiatives across NYU Langone, often in close collaboration with community partners. We hope the wealth of knowledge and expertise that guided the creation of these resources will be of benefit to researchers, community members, and CHWs who are looking to develop, enhance, or evaluate a CHW project. The Hub’s search categories and filters are intended to capture what site users may find most interesting and helpful. If you have any suggestions for improvement, or if you find a document that is not correctly tagged, please let us know.

The CHW Resource Hub is an initiative of the NYU Community Health Worker Research & Resource Center (CHW-RRC).

The Community Health Worker Research & Resource Center (CHW-RRC) is housed in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and supported by NYU Langone's Community Service Plan. The CHW-RRC is led by a CHW Committee made up of a rotating group of 4-6 CHWs and patient navigators across NYU Langone (Brooklyn and Manhattan). We also convene a stakeholder group that helps guide CHW-RRC activities which includes faculty, CHW supervisors, program staff, as well as representatives from the CHW Committee.

The CHW-RRC aims to serve as a hub for NYU Langone’s extensive CHW-related knowledge and expertise in order to strengthen and support emerging and existing programs, both within and beyond NYU Langone, to improve health, reduce health inequities, and recognize and help build community capacity and leadership. Our Team does this by cultivating a culturally competent CHW workforce, providing training, support, and professional development opportunities to this workforce, supporting community–clinical linkage models, and stimulating cross-project learning of best practices in community and patient engagement.