Tish Singletary is the Branch Head for the Community and Clinical Connections for Prevention and Health Branch in the NC Division of Public Health. She has over 20 years of experience leading, managing, and coordinating health initiative projects and programs for the private and public sectors including the NC Academy of Family Physicians, Duke University, the NC Health and Wellness Trust Fund, the NC Department of Health and Human Services, and the NC Office of Rural Health. She led the first NC Community Health Worker Stakeholder initiative recommending a sustainable infrastructure for NC CHWs that address workforce development, professional identity, training, and certification. She is a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine and serves on the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Community Advisory Board -UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Tish received her BA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her MA from Liberty University School of Behavioral Sciences.