Who are Promotoras/Community Health Workers?

Promotoras/community health workers (P/CHWs) are an innovative workforce and trusted messengers with demonstrated capacity to reach local communities to address various needs including: food insecurity, housing insecurity, access to medical care, chronic disease management, etc. Moreover, P/CHWs are trusted community partners with historical precedence of successful partnership outcomes.

Engaging P/CHWs as community partners and research advisors is crucial to creating a systematic body of work aiming to advance the health and wellbeing of communities and a promising workforce.

Capacity Development

Through academic-community partnerships we have co-developed workshops to offer support and collective learning to P/CHWs. Workshop topics include basic needs resource navigation and mental health.

 

Educational Materials

Materials are co-designed with community partners to disseminate culturally and linguistically relevant health information on specific health conditions, for example the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., masking, testing, vaccines, etc.), and mental health resources.

Research

Publications disseminate findings from community-academic collaborations on studies and initiatives designed to continue contributing to the science of community engaged research.

 

Community of Practice

The P/CHW consulting group leverages the experience of promotoras/community health workers from the Bay Area to offer feedback and advise on research directly impacting underserved communities (e.g., Latinx, immigrant, impoverished, etc.).

Program Leadership

Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa, PhD, MPH

Associate Director of Research
Email: prespinosa@stanford.edu

Yessica Martinez Mulet, MS

Program Coordinator
Email: yessicam@stanford.edu