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Discover how WePair is transforming public health hiring with AI-powered matching, equitable access, and support for CHWs, doulas, and frontline workers.
In the world of public health, frontline professionals like Community Health Workers (CHWs), doulas, peer support specialists, and wellness coaches are essential. They serve as the bridge between healthcare systems and marginalized communities, delivering culturally competent, accessible care.
Yet, despite their value, many face major barriers in career development. These include low visibility, limited professional growth opportunities, and inefficient hiring systems that don’t recognize lived experience as expertise. That’s where WePair Health comes in—a groundbreaking, AI-powered career platform built specifically to uplift and empower these professionals.
Headquartered in Pasadena, California, WePair is a mission-first initiative powered by a diverse team of medical professionals, technologists, community leaders, and public health advocates. Backed by Microsoft for Startups, Kaiser Permanente, and more, WePair isn’t just a job board. It’s a movement toward health equity, workforce justice, and economic mobility.
Despite their crucial roles, frontline public health workers are often under-recognized and underpaid. Employers struggle to find the right candidates, and professionals frequently accept positions that don't align with their passion or lived experience.
The result? A fragmented job market, talent burnout, and inefficiencies across community health systems.
WePair Health was born to bridge these gaps. Its mission is to create equitable, accessible, and dignified career pathways for public health professionals. By focusing on those with lived experience—many from underrepresented or marginalized communities—WePair brings a culturally responsive, justice-driven lens to the hiring process.
WePair uses artificial intelligence and human-centered design to match professionals with mission-aligned organizations. It simplifies the hiring journey for both job seekers and employers while promoting values like equity, inclusion, and transparency.
Here’s a breakdown of WePair’s major offerings:
The heart of WePair’s technology is its AI-powered matching algorithm. Candidates build free profiles that highlight not only their qualifications and experience but also their personal values, goals, and community roots. Employers post jobs with detailed needs and culture descriptions.
The system automatically pairs both sides based on mission alignment, skill match, and relevance—eliminating much of the guesswork and bias in traditional recruitment.
Hiring on WePair is intuitive and end-to-end:
This workflow significantly reduces HR workload, speeds up hiring, and increases placement success rates.
Beyond employment, WePair offers a rich ecosystem for personal and professional growth:
This structure creates more than career matches—it builds community and confidence.
For healthcare nonprofits, community clinics, and public programs, hiring can be costly and time-consuming. WePair’s Hiring Panel simplifies the process:
Employers also receive access to consulting services, workforce development toolkits, and resources on equity-based hiring practices.
WePair’s impact is already visible across the public health workforce:
These are not just job placements—they’re life-changing transitions that ripple into communities, improving health outcomes and economic equity.
Whether you’re a health worker or a hiring organization, the process is intentionally simple:
WePair stands out because it doesn’t treat healthcare as a numbers game—it centers people, purpose, and lived experience.
Public health hiring often overlooks candidates with deep community knowledge and cultural fluency in favor of credentials that don’t tell the full story. WePair flips this model. It recognizes that those closest to the problem often hold the keys to the solution.
By investing in frontline workers—especially those from underserved populations—WePair helps build a more just, responsive, and effective public health system.
Core Values:
WePair is powered by a team that reflects the very communities it serves. From CHWs and doulas to technologists and medical professionals, every member of the WePair team brings firsthand experience with the challenges of public health work.
Their inclusion in Latimer House Cohort II, supported by Microsoft for Startups and Kaiser Permanente, highlights their innovation and impact on the healthcare ecosystem.
WePair welcomes participation from individuals and organizations alike:
Traditional hiring platforms often rely heavily on formal credentials, which can unintentionally marginalize workers who have built their expertise through lived experience and community-based practice. This is especially true in public health, where the most effective professionals often come from the communities they serve.
WePair intentionally centers lived experience as a valuable qualification. Instead of filtering candidates through rigid degree requirements, the platform invites them to tell their stories, showcase community ties, and highlight informal or alternative training pathways.
For instance, a peer recovery specialist with ten years of lived experience supporting others through addiction may not have a master’s degree—but they bring unmatched cultural insight and empathy. WePair’s platform ensures those experiences aren’t overlooked—they’re prioritized.
In many tech platforms, AI can feel cold and impersonal. Not at WePair. The platform has been developed with community-based co-design principles, meaning real CHWs, doulas, and health workers helped shape every feature.
Rather than automating away the human touch, WePair uses AI to enhance connection:
In short, WePair is tech with heart—built not just for efficiency, but for equity and dignity.
There are plenty of job boards and staffing platforms out there—but few offer what WePair does for public health professionals. Here's how WePair stands apart:
The platform wasn’t developed by tech outsiders—it was co-created with CHWs, doulas, and support specialists who know the challenges intimately. This ensures that features are relevant, practical, and responsive to real-world needs.
Most hiring platforms stop at the job offer. WePair continues to support talent through mentorship, wellness sessions, leadership training, and technical assistance. It’s a full-career companion, not just a recruiter.
From the language used in job postings to the onboarding resources available, everything in WePair is designed through the lens of equity, accessibility, and inclusion. The platform actively counters barriers related to race, income, gender, and education.
Many job platforms charge employers to post or candidates to apply. WePair keeps its services completely free for both parties. Why? Because financial barriers should never stand in the way of purpose-driven hiring.
WePair’s most powerful endorsement comes from the community it serves. Here are just a few examples of real impact:
Tamika, a CHW from Detroit, struggled for years to find a full-time role that valued her bilingualism and deep roots in her neighborhood. After joining WePair, she received three offers within a month—and accepted a leadership role in a community health center.
Luis, a Peer Support Specialist in Phoenix, used WePair to connect with a remote behavioral health startup focused on Latinx men’s wellness. “They didn’t just see me as a resume. They saw what I bring to the table culturally,” he says.
Rasha, a doula in Oakland, was connected to a maternal health nonprofit through WePair and has since helped shape the organization’s birth equity programs. “I feel seen. I feel like I’m building something bigger than myself,” she shared.
WePair is not just meeting a hiring need—it’s helping address structural problems in the public health labor ecosystem:
By matching professionals with mission-aligned roles and providing long-term support, WePair reduces burnout and improves retention. Workers are more likely to stay in roles that respect their contributions and support their well-being.
WePair helps pipeline underrepresented professionals into leadership roles. With tools for mentorship, skill-building, and career planning, the platform doesn’t just find jobs for candidates—it helps build their future.
Because WePair supports remote and hybrid roles, it expands access to talent in regions where recruitment has historically been difficult. It also connects rural professionals to urban opportunities and vice versa, enhancing system-wide capacity.
WePair is not operating in a vacuum. It’s part of a larger conversation around how to reimagine healthcare systems for the 21st century. As healthcare becomes more decentralized and community-based, platforms like WePair will play a critical role in staffing, innovation, and equity.
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed just how essential frontline health workers are. But recognition must be followed by action—and compensation. WePair is building the infrastructure that ensures those doing the work are:
The platform is also beginning to integrate credentialing tools, mobile apps, and advanced reporting dashboards, setting the stage for broader use in government contracting, nonprofit workforce planning, and academic research.
WePair is actively building partnerships with:
By integrating WePair into their workforce development efforts, these organizations can access a larger, more diverse, and more mission-aligned talent pool—and help shape a more inclusive public health future.
WePair is calling on changemakers—job seekers, employers, funders, and public health allies—to join the platform and reimagine hiring together.
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Reach out to the team at info@wepairhealth.com or (626) 609-7247 to explore custom partnerships, grants, or integrations.
WePair represents something far bigger than a digital hiring tool—it’s a blueprint for equity-centered innovation in healthcare. By prioritizing the voices of those closest to the work, it helps create a system where people aren’t just filling roles—they’re thriving in them.
As the public health field continues to evolve, WePair stands as a powerful model of how technology, mission, and community can work together. It's not just solving problems—it's building futures.
