Achieving Health Equity via Community Health Worker Sustainability: A Rocky Path to a Crucial Goal

🌐Achieving Health Equity via Community Health Worker Sustainability: A Rocky Path to a Crucial Goal

This editorial serves as an introductory framework for the evaluation of the CDC’s nationwide Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR) initiative. It synthesizes findings across the special issue’s five thematic areas, detailing how integrating trusted community members into public health efforts improves disaster response, promotes health equity, and builds long-term community resilience.