Chidinma Ibe on Community Health Workers' Chance to Advance Public Health Policy

<p>Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Chidinma Ibe on her recent paper that provides a closer understanding of the value of community health workers' (CHW) voices, social risk factors, and how structural racism shapes CHWs' approach to intervention delivery in structurally vulnerable communities.</p><p>Ibe and co-authors state their findings underscore the need to embed antiracist principles in the policies and practices that affect the public health workforce.</p><p><a href="https://www.pubservice.com/backissue/subbi.aspx?CO=PJ&amp;PC=HR&amp;BI=HRI&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=A+health+podyssey">Order the "Tackling Structural Racism in Health" issue of <em>Health Affairs</em></a>.</p><p><em>Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. </em><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/membership?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=a+health+podyssey&amp;utm_campaign=insider"><em>With your support</em></a><em>, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.</em></p>