{"id":5909,"date":"2020-05-12T23:38:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/?p=5909"},"modified":"2020-08-21T07:58:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:58:25","slug":"to-strengthen-the-public-health-response-to-covid-19-we-need-community-health-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/2020\/05\/12\/to-strengthen-the-public-health-response-to-covid-19-we-need-community-health-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"To Strengthen The Public Health Response To COVID-19, We Need Community Health Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEPHTC is proud that our upcoming Speaker Denise Octavia Smith recent article published on the importance of Community Health Workers in our COVID-19 response. Denise is hosting part three of our\u00a0COVID-19 Peer Learning and Support for Community Health Workers Webinar Series just published in the Health Affairs Blog about how we need to incorporate CHWs in our public health emergency response.\u00a0 She points out that CHWs have now been designated \u201cessential critical infrastructure workers during the COVID-19 pandemic\u201d by the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.\u00a0 Congratulations at being recognized, CHWs!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/05\/HHS-Highlight-thumbnail-636x454.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"454\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/05\/HHS-Highlight-thumbnail-636x454.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/05\/HHS-Highlight-thumbnail-768x548.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/05\/HHS-Highlight-thumbnail-1024x731.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2020\/05\/HHS-Highlight-thumbnail.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/do\/10.1377\/hblog20200504.336184\/full\/?mc_cid=448701a804&amp;mc_eid=b58b095f38&amp;\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEPHTC is proud that our upcoming Speaker Denise Octavia Smith recent article published on the importance of Community Health Workers in our COVID-19 response. Denise is hosting part three of our\u00a0COVID-19 Peer Learning and Support for Community Health Workers Webinar Series just published in the Health Affairs Blog about how we need to incorporate CHWs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,368,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5911,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}