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Healthforce Center Welcomes Five Summer Interns to UCSF!

07-25-22
Healthforce Center at UCSF is pleased to welcome five interns this summer! Working with interns is just one way in which Healthforce Center advances health equity by building pipelines of diverse health clinicians, researchers, and leaders. Internships such as these provides an opportunity for...

Confronting Implicit Bias to Adapt Depression Screening and Treatment

07-19-22
Vaishnavi Vaidya, MPH, Program Manager, Healthforce Center at UCSF
Over the past 20 years, Tennessee has seen immense growth in the Latinx population due to a steady influx of migrant agriculture workers. To meet the health care needs of families in this community, Cherokee Health Systems (CHS), an integrated Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) opened a...

Celebrating our Achievements: CIN Advanced Racial Health Equity and More

06-15-22
The California Improvement Network (CIN), a project of the California Health Care Foundation that is managed by Healthforce Center at UCSF, is a community of health care professionals that has been striving since 2005 to identify and spread ideas to improve health care delivery in California. CIN’s...

Meet the Fifth Cohort of the Cedars-Sinai Managing to Leading Program

06-06-22
Thirty-two mid-level clinicians and administrative staff who work in community health centers and other safety-net organizations in Los Angeles have been selected to participate in the fifth cohort of the Cedars-Sinai’s Community Clinic Initiative: Managing to Leading (M2L) program.

Workshop – Confronting Racism Denial: Tools for Naming Racism and Moving to Action

05-31-22
Racism is a major driver of health inequities in the United States. For most of our 30 years, Healthforce Center at UCSF has been working to advance health equity by building pipelines of diverse health leaders, strengthening the cultural competency of clinicians, and centering equity in quality...

Webinar: Enabling Dental Therapy Practice to Improve Access to Oral Health Services

04-27-22
For two decades, the US Surgeon General has highlighted large gaps in access to oral care and the “silent epidemic” of dental disease. More than 30% of the US population has difficulty accessing care. This has resulted in a call to action to increase workforce diversity, capacity, and flexibility...

Supporting Access and Equity in Primary Care Through New Payment Models

03-22-22
This panel discusses how Californians can work together to realize a future vision for primary care that addresses the issues of unequal access and disparities in health outcomes. The recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report on “Implementing High-Quality...

What's on Tap in 2022: Next Steps for Transforming Health Care

02-17-22
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center
In my last post, I promised to share what Healthforce Center is excited to focus on in 2022 as we celebrate our 30th anniversary. For three decades, we have been committed to advancing health equity, developing health leaders, and examining the health care workforce in support of effective policy...

Apply Now for Leadership Program for Los Angeles Clinics

02-15-22
Community health centers and clinics are critical providers of health care access for uninsured and underserved populations and are central to advancing health equity. To improve care delivery, health centers require skillful, confident, and resilient leaders who are equipped to achieve systems...

COVID-19 Is Reshaping California’s Health Workforce

02-01-22
Avram Goldstein interview with Joanne Spetz
Evidence is mounting that American health care workers are quitting in large numbers. The health care sector has lost nearly half a million workers (PDF) since February 2020, and new data suggest that during the pandemic 18% of health care workers have quit and 12% have been laid off.

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