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: 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: 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.

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

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

Purpose: Provide loan repayment to students in their last year of school pursuing a degree in allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, physician assistant studies, nursing, or dentistry. In exchange for loan repayment, individuals agree to provide primary health services in Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) of greatest need.

Purpose: Provide federal financial support for Native Hawaiians who are students at health professions schools, in return for a commitment to provide primary health services to the Native Hawaiian population in the State of Hawaii.