Community Health
Community Health Worker Institute
The Community Health Worker Institute (CHWI) strives to improve health by optimizing community health worker integration within clinical care teams. Community health workers are a bridge between social and clinical care and serve as an invaluable workforce for health systems. Using embedded implementation science, the CHWI employs community health workers as an innovative workforce solution to address adverse social determinants of health, improve access to healthcare, and provide Bronx-based households with sustainable employment opportunities.
Kevin Fiori, MD, MPH, MSc, FAAP
Director, Community Health Worker Institute, Montefiore Medical Center
Renee Whiskey-Lalanne, MPH, MCHES, AE-C
Associate Director, Community Health Worker Institute, Montefiore Medical Center
Promoting Community Engagement & Collaboration Across the Research Spectrum
The Community & Collaboration Core, in alliance with the ICTR's Health Research Implementation Core, enhances community engagement with research that impacts health care. Key partners in this work include The Bronx Health Link and the Bronx Community Research Review Board. Spanish translation services are available through the C & C Core.
ICTR | Bronx Community Research Review Board | Bronx Health Link
A. H. Strelnick, M.D.
Associate Dean for Community Engagement, Emeritus
Chief, Division of Community Health
Project Co-Director, Bronx Healthy Start Partnership
Developing Future Physicians and Health Care Provider
Associate Dean for Community Engagement Emeritus
The Bronx Community Health Leaders aim to create a peer support group for college and post-college students that facilitates networking, provides guidance and mentoring, engages in community service, and helps develop the leadership skills essential to becoming a health care provider.
Juan Robles, M.D.
Director, Montefiore Medical Group
Director, Bronx Community Health Leaders
Co-Director, Bronx HOPE
Bronx HOPE
Bronx Health Opportunities Partnership-Einstein (Bronx HOPE) supports economically and educationally disadvantaged students in middle school to post-college in pursuing and succeeding in rigorous academic programs in the health professions. Each year, Bronx HOPE supports over 330 students' progress to higher academic levels.
Cara Stephenson-Hunter, Ph.D.
Director,
Bronx Community Health Leaders
Co-Director, Bronx HOPE
Einstein Community Health Outreach (ECHO) Clinic
(Student-run Clinic)
The Einstein Community Health Outreach (ECHO) Clinic is a collaboration between Einstein and the Institute for Family Health. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2024, the ECHO clinic provides free, high-quality, comprehensive health care to the uninsured population of the Bronx and New York City at the Walton Family Health Center in the South Bronx. The ECHO Free Clinic embraces the spirit of volunteerism and service embodied in our health care professionals and student volunteers. Drs. Amarilys Cortijo and Sarah Nosal are the Clinical Directors and Co-Director, respectively, and Dr. Hall Strelnick is its Einstein Faculty advisor. Student leadership changes annually.
Preventing Infant & Maternal Mortality & Morbidity
The Bronx Healthy Start program works to ensure that expecting and postpartum moms and babies up to the age of two are healthy, safe, and thriving. A federally funded program, Healthy Start uses case management as the core service connecting mothers and their families to free and confidential screening and referral to medical services, educational and infant care resources, and voluntary home visitation.
Alma Idehen, MSEd
Project Co-Director & Program Manager
Bronx Healthy Start Partnership