Author: Denise Octavia Smith
The evolving role of Community Health Workers as trusted messengers
Denise Octavia Smith, survivor of a rare kidney disease and the founding Executive Director of the National Association of Community Health Workers, hosts the February Learning Network webinar “The Evolving Role of Community Health Workers as Trusted Messengers”.
She also spoke at the 2020 ABIM Foundation Forum about health equity and trust through the lens of a patient during the pandemic.
Previous Webinars:
- Managing Uncertainty: A Path to Better Patient Care
- What does it take to measure trust in health care?
- What to Watch in 2025: Navigating Sources of News and Information
- Trust Starts with Hello: Simplifying Health Conversations
- Health Misinformation – Mechanisms, Impacts, and Countermeasures
- Closing the Gaps: Trust, Equity, and Mentorship in Medicine
- Cultivating Trustworthiness in Health Care: Lessons from Dr. Richard Baron
- Untangling the Historical Threads of Medical Debt
- Rebuilding Trustworthiness in Health Care
- Building Trust Through Meaningful Community Engagement
- Navigating trust, safety, and excellence in patient care
- Eliminating medical debt to build trust