Health Workforce Programs

Purpose: Improve access to culturally appropriate health care by increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who enter and graduate from health professions training programs.

Purpose: Educate and prepare the pediatric health workforce to serve children and innovate in the area of pediatrics to compensate for the disparity in the level of federal graduate medical education funding for freestanding children’s teaching hospitals versus other types of teaching hospitals.

Purpose: Increase the number of community health workers and health support workers and equip them with the skillsets needed to provide effective community outreach build trust with communities, support connections to and retention in care and support services, and implement other strategies to increase access to care and to assist individuals in prevention services and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies in underserved communities.

Purpose: Strengthen the primary care workforce by supporting the academic career development of dental faculty and primary care physicians though a collaborative project between multiple departments.

Purpose: Increase the number of dental and dental hygiene faculty in the workforce by assisting dental and dental hygiene training programs to attract and retain dental and dental hygiene faculty through the operation of a loan repayment program.

Purpose: Provide loan repayment assistance to faculty members from economically and environmentally disadvantaged backgrounds with eligible health professions degrees or certificates to serve at eligible academic institutions.

Purpose: Support the career development of junior faculty as academic geriatricians or academic geriatrics specialists.

Purpose: Develop a health care workforce that maximizes patient and family engagement to address gaps in health for older adults by integrating geriatrics and primary care and other appropriate specialties, including collaboration with community partners.

Purpose: Train doctoral health service psychology students, interns, and post-doctoral residents in integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health for placement into community-based primary care settings in high-need and high-demand areas.

Purpose: Help states develop and implement innovative programs to address the dental workforce needs of designated dental health professional shortage areas (Dental HPSAs) in a manner appropriate to each state’s individual needs.