Policy at Healthforce values a community-driven and collaborative approach to transforming the health workforce.
Our current policy priority areas are emergent from interactive design workshops with leaders and organizations representing diverse health workforce policy needs and interests along with close collaboration and guidance from our Pathfinder Council.
A key driver of Policy at Healthforce is to elevate and accelerate the dissemination of Healthforce Center workforce research and evidence into the hands of community advocates and policymakers to advance policy.
Our resources and priority areas will evolve in response to emerging needs in our dynamic policy landscape.
Laying the Foundation: Community-Informed Health Workforce Policy
- Policy at Healthforce: How Community Feedback Shaped Our Research Agenda for 2025 (February 2025)
- Shaping the Research Priorities for Health Workforce Policy: An Update and Invitation (June 2024)
- Policy at Healthforce: Learnings and Progress from Year One (June 2024)
- Design Workshop Pre-work (June 2024)
- Announcing Our New Initiative to Strengthen California’s Health Workforce (October 2023)
Actionable Health Workforce Data
- Health Workforce Data Webinar for Regional Collaboratives (December 2024)
Equitable AI Integration
- AI and the Health Care Workforce (June 2025). This annotated bibliography aims to highlight seminal articles, reports, editorials, and other key pieces of literature that explore AI’s impact on the health workforce in a rapidly evolving landscape. It will be updated over time to reflect new developments.
Workforce Retention
- Accelerated Health Professions Education Programs in California (June 2025). This Issue Brief provides policy-makers and educational leaders with consolidated information on how accelerated health programs in California increase supply, equity, diversity, access to education and impact cost, time to entry, access to care in low-income and rural areas, and ultimately health outcomes.
- Strengthening Personal Care Aide Workforce: Advancing Consistency, Training, and Equity (June 2025). This Fact Sheet, developed in partnership with Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP), highlights the state of PCA training nationwide, showcases innovative state models, and presents policy solutions to strengthen and equitize the direct care workforce.
Emerging Policy Areas
- Policies and Initiatives Impacting Medi-Cal Dental Care: 2014 – 2023 (January 2025). This Issue Brief is a reference for advocates and researchers examining access to dental care and serves as a supplement to subsequent research reports.