1 Ashley Wennerstrom is Chair of the Policy Committee of the American Public Health Association (APHA) Community Health Worker (CHW) Section and is assistant professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Louisiana Community Health Worker Institute, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans. Carl H. Rush is special advisor to the APHA CHW Section Council and is also a research affiliate at the Project on CHW Policy and Practice at the University of Texas-Houston.