Maia Ingram is Co-Director of the Arizona Prevention Research Center and member of the Department of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona College of Public Health. Ms. Ingram has expertise in community based participatory research, participatory evaluation and qualitative research methods which she has applied in partnership with community health centers, local health departments and grassroots agencies in rural, urban and US-Mexico border communities. Research efforts have focused on evaluation of community health worker interventions with Mexican-origin populations to address health promotion, chronic disease management, mental health, hearing loss, and environmental health, as well as environment and policy change. Ms. Ingram is interested in efforts to promote the sustainability and compensation of the CHW workforce and collaborated closely with the Arizona CHW Association and CHW stakeholders to pass CHW Voluntary Certification in 2018 and achieve Arizona AHCCCS/Medicaid CHW reimbursement in 2022.