The health industry is composed mostly of people more privileged than the patients served. We wait for people to get sick and then treat late-stage illness with expensive hospitalizations and specialized clinicians. As a result, our system is in the terminal stages of a predictable failure. This is the time to transfer power to community health workers: a boots-on-the-ground workforce with lived expertise of inequity who can address the upstream causes of poor health before they turn into full-blown health crises. For this transformation to achieve its intended effect, the health industry will need to get it right. Join to hear results from a decade of work building systems to recruit, hire, train and support community health workers at enterprise scale.
