“Centering the Voice and Impact of Community Health Workers”

 

We invite Community Health Workers (CHWs), Promotores de Salud, Community Health Representatives (CHRs), community-based organizations, public health professionals, researchers, and students to submit poster abstracts that center the voice and impact of CHWs. Poster presentations are a space to tell our stories, share practical tools, and show what is working in communities, systems, and policy.

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We especially welcome posters led by CHWs at all experience levels and strongly encourage meaningful CHW leadership or co-authorship in every poster. Practice-based, story-based, and community-led work are welcome and valued.

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Poster Tracks

Submissions should align with one or more of the following themes:

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1. CHWs’ Lived Experiences

Posters in this theme center the wisdom that comes from community roots and personal experience, not just theory. Share how your lived experience or the lived experience of your community shapes your work, builds trust, bridges culture and language, or challenges inequities in health and systems.

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2. CHWs Strengthening Communities

This theme highlights the ways CHWs help communities heal, organize, and thrive. Posters might showcase community-led programs, outreach strategies, mutual aid efforts, care coordination, bridging historic mistrust with providers, or any work where CHWs are improving health and wellbeing at the neighborhood, tribal, regional, or state level.

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3. CHWs Sustainability

Posters in this theme focus on what it takes to protect and sustain the CHW workforce. Topics might include funding and reimbursement models, fair pay and benefits, supervision and support, CHW-led organizations and networks, policy wins, training pathways, and strategies to preserve the integrity of the CHW model while partnering with large systems.

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Submission Guidelines

• Abstract Length: 150 – 250 words

• Language: English or Spanish submissions accepted

• Abstracts should be clear, focused, and written in plain language so CHWs from diverse backgrounds can easily understand your work

• Poster Size: 36” x 48” (Portrait Orientation)

• Format: PDF required upon acceptance
   

All accepted poster presenters must be registered ROOTS Conference 2026 attendees.

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Poster Session:  

Space will be reserved for the presentation. Authors will be responsible for mounting their posters, being available to discuss their display, and removing posters at the conclusion of the session.