Community Health Workers
Training, practical tools, supervision, career pathways, patient education, navigation, and referral support built around frontline work.
Public health / AI / Frontline workforce
Better tools for the people closest to the problem.
Field Station Health builds and tests new approaches to public health education, frontline workforce development, and healthcare access.
Appalachia → Everywhere
FIELD NOTES / 001 COMMUNITY → CAPACITY → ACCESS
00 / A field station for health
Get closer.
Closer to communities. Closer to frontline workers. Closer to the problems traditional systems struggle to solve.
Field Station Health works alongside communities to learn, build, test, and teach—developing practical tools that strengthen health systems where resources, workforce, and access are limited.
Our work begins in Appalachia. The problems we care about are global.
01 / Frontline workforce
Equip the people already there.
Community health workers, peer navigators, health educators, outreach workers, and other trusted community members connect people to care—and health systems to the communities they serve. We want to make them dramatically more capable.
Train the Trainer
Build local teaching capacity so knowledge can spread through organizations and communities without creating dependence on Field Station Health.
AI + Public Health
Adaptive learning, translation, simulation, knowledge support, and field guidance that help people learn faster and act with greater confidence.
02 / Train the trainer
Build capability that compounds.
Training one person helps one person. Training someone to teach others builds infrastructure.
A local organization trains its first cohort. That cohort trains the next. Curriculum adapts to local needs, language, culture, and health priorities.
Local ownershipPrograms designed to become more useful and more locally led over time.
Repeatable systemsTools, curriculum, and AI support that make high-quality training easier to reproduce.
The goal isn't dependence. It's stronger local capacity.
03 / AI + public health
A teacher, translator, and guide in your pocket.
Artificial intelligence creates an opportunity to rethink how public-health knowledge is taught and delivered. We are interested in AI that helps frontline workers learn faster, navigate complex systems, communicate more effectively, and know when to escalate care.
Not replacing health workers. Giving them better tools.
Imagine training that adapts to a learner's level, translates into a local language, simulates a patient encounter, answers questions about the curriculum, reinforces weak areas, and helps a trained worker apply what they learned in the field.
04 / The field lab
Learn → Build → Test → Teach → Scale
We don't want to study problems from a distance. The Field Lab brings together community organizations, public-health practitioners, clinicians, educators, technologists, researchers, students, and entrepreneurs to test practical solutions in real-world environments.
Learn→Build→Test→Teach→Scale
Some experiments will become programs. Some will become research. Some will become open tools. Some may become companies. All should leave communities more capable than we found them.
05 / What we're exploring
From Appalachia to the world.
Different places are not interchangeable. But rural and underserved communities can share familiar constraints: distance, workforce shortages, transportation, fragmented care, health literacy, limited specialist access, and infrastructure gaps. We believe useful ideas can move in both directions.
Community Health Worker Infrastructure
Training, tools, supervision, career pathways, and technology for frontline community health work.
AI-Powered Public Health Education
Adaptive learning, simulations, translation, knowledge tools, and continuing education.
Rural Health Access
Navigation, prevention, chronic disease support, remote care, and new access models.
Global Health Innovation
Practical technologies and delivery models designed around real-world constraints.
Training of Trainers
Systems that help organizations and communities build their own teaching capacity.
Low-Resource Technology
Mobile-first, multilingual, low-bandwidth tools that work beyond highly resourced systems.
06 / Build with us
Bring us a problem worth solving.
Community organizations • Universities • Public health departments • NGOs • Health systems • Researchers • Foundations • Technologists • Students • Entrepreneurs
The best ideas rarely come from working alone. We want to work close to the field, alongside people who understand the problems firsthand.
Closer to the problem. Closer to the people. Building what comes next.