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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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Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP)

Program Type: Loan Repayment
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health; Medicine; Nursing; Oral Health
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.
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Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP)

Program Type: Scholarship
Topic: Medicine; Nursing; Oral Health; Public Health
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.
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Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health; Medicine
Purpose: Expand the number of fellows at accredited addiction medicine fellowship (AMF) and addiction psychiatry fellowship (APF) programs trained as addiction medicine specialists who work in underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care with mental health disorder and substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment services. The program encompasses both psychiatry and an addiction subspecialty for primary care doctors.

Area Health Education Centers (AHEC)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Medicine; Nursing
Explore HRSA's Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program, improving healthcare access by training and supporting health professionals in underserved areas.

Centers of Excellence Program (COE)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health; Medicine; Oral Health
Explore HRSA's Centers of Excellence (COE) Program, advancing diversity in health professions education and improving care for underserved populations.

Health Professions Student Loans (HPSL)

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

Loans for Disadvantaged Students (LDS)

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