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Rural Seniors Reap Health Benefits from What UCSF First-Gen Nursing Program Sows

  By Andrew Schwartz with photography by Elisabeth Fall. Reprinted with permission from the UCSF School of Nursing. The UCSF School of Nursing is partnering with Hartnell College to prepare first-...
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How to Increase Diversity in the Health Care Workforce Now

By Nabiha Siddiqui based on work by Sunita Mutha, Janet Coffman, Susan Chapman, and Rebecca Hargreaves, Healthforce Center at UCSF Photo: From the left: Maryam Alehashem, postdoctoral scholar,...

32 Clinicians Selected for Next Round of CHCF Leadership Program

By Dr. Michelle Schneidermann, director of CHCF’s People-Centered Care Team Thirty-two fellows have been selected for the next round of the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program, which helps clinicians...
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Unanswered Cries: Why California Faces a Shortage of Mental Health Workers

Published by CalMatters 9/08/2022 as part of their series on mental health care. Reprinted with permission. Illustration by Chanelle Nibbelink for CalMatters. The need for therapists, social workers...
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Healthforce Center Welcomes Five Summer Interns to UCSF!

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...

Confronting Implicit Bias to Adapt Depression Screening and Treatment

By 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...
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Celebrating our Achievements: CIN Advanced Racial Health Equity and More

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

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

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

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...