Policy at Healthforce relies on 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.
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
- COMING SOON
Workforce Retention
- COMING SOON
Emerging Policy Areas
- Policies and Initiatives Impacting Medi-Cal Dental Care: 2014 – 2023 (January 2025). This policy explainer details each of the policies impacting the Medi-Cal Dental program from 2014 through mid-2023. This document serves as a reference for advocates and researchers examining access to dental care and as a supplement to subsequent research reports.