Dr. Garth Graham, MD, MPH
Lisa Renee Holderby, LSWA
Dr. John Ruffin, PhD
Dr. Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH |
 Lisa Renee Holderby, LSWA
Director of Health Equity
Community Catalyst
Lisa Renee Holderby is a community health worker with almost 20 years experience working to improve health in Massachusetts. She recently joined Community Catalyst, a national health care advocacy organization based in Boston, as the Director of Health Equity. Previously she was the Executive Director of the Massachusetts
Association of Community Health Workers (MACHW) and the first community health worker in the nation to manage a statewide CHW
association full time. Lisa Renee is passionate about promoting the integration of community health workers to improve access to healthcare and reduce health disparities.
Ms Holderby is actively involved in the community health worker movement on local, state and national levels. She is a founding leader of the Massachusetts Association of Community Health Workers and has contributed greatly to the organization’s growth. Additional involvement in Massachusetts includes organizing CHWs, developing and conducting workshops for CHWs and CHW supervisors and educating all on the important role CHWs have to improve health in Massachusetts. Lisa Renee advocates for policy change to advance the field including drafting CHW legislation, incorporated as Section 110 of Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006 (Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law).
Nationally, Lisa Renee is actively engaged in the development of the American Association of Community Health Workers. She is also active in the American Public Health Association (APHA) Community Health Worker (CHW) Special Primary Interest Group (SPIG). She is the CHW SPIG current chair and a three-term representative to the Governing Council. Ms. Holderby has served on several national advisory boards including the Center for Sustainable Health Outreach and Pfizer Health Solutions’ Amigos En Salud. Lisa Renee also served as the cochair
for the National CHW Workforce Study and has been an invited keynote speaker and presenter for several state and national conferences.
Ms. Holderby was honored as the recipient of the American Public Health Association’s 2008 Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award for her work to increase access to care and services though promotion of the CHW workforce. |
