Health Workforce Programs

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: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, dental, and behavioral/mental health clinicians in eligible communities of need designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas.

Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, and behavioral/mental health clinicians with specific training and credentials to provide evidence-based substance use disorder treatment in rural Health Professional Shortage Areas.

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: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, and behavioral/mental health clinicians with specific training and credentials to provide evidence-based substance use disorder treatment and counseling in eligible Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).

Purpose: Assist in the recruitment and retention of professional registered nurses, including advanced practice registered nurses dedicated to working in health care facilities with a critical shortage of nurses or working as nurse faculty in eligible schools of nursing by decreasing the economic barriers associated with pursuing careers at such critical shortage facilities or in academic 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.

Purpose: Provide grant funding for states and territories to operate their own loan repayment programs. Through this program, each state and territory can design programs that address the most pressing health care needs of their residents.

Purpose: Recruit and retain medical, nursing, behavioral/mental health clinicians, and paraprofessionals who provide direct treatment or recovery support of patients with or in recovery from a substance use disorder.