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Health Workforce Programs

Our workforce programs help strengthen the health workforce and connect skilled health care providers to communities in need, improving the health of people who need it most.

We offer scholarship, loan, and loan repayment programs to individuals and award grants to organizations (For example, schools, hospitals, health departments).

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Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Nursing
Purpose: Increase the number of qualified nursing faculty nationwide by providing low-interest loans for individuals studying to be nurse faculty and loan cancelation for those who then go on to work as faculty.

Nursing Student Loans (NSL)

Program Type: School Loan Program
Topic: Nursing
Purpose: Assist accredited public schools and educational intuitions in offering low-interest loans to degree-seeking students in the health care field.

Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Nursing
Purpose: Increase nursing education opportunities for individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds. This includes underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities among registered nurses.

Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program

Program Type: Loan Repayment
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health; Medicine; Nursing
Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, and behavioral/mental health clinicians with specific training and credentials providing pediatric medical subspecialty, pediatric surgical specialty, or child and adolescent mental and behavioral health care in Health Professional Shortage Areas.