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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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Dental Clinician Educator Career Development Program

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Oral Health
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.

Dental Faculty Loan Repayment Program (DFLRP)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Oral Health
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.

Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Geriatrics
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.

Graduate Psychology Education (GPE) Program

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health
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.

Grants to States to Support Oral Health Workforce Activities

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Oral Health
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.

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.

Health Workforce Resiliency Training

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health
Purpose: Provide evidence-based planning, development, and training in health profession activities in order to reduce burnout and promote resiliency among the workforce.