Transforming Research into Action
Healthforce Center at UCSF improves health and access to quality care by advancing workforce policy, education, and practice.
We serve as a trusted research partner to foundations, government agencies, health care organizations, and educational institutions to accelerate large-scale health workforce workforce policy and programming initiatives.
Healthforce Center's provides a unique breadth and depth of knowledge, methodology, and advisory expertise across the full spectrum of the health care workforce.
Methodology Expertise:
- Exploratory analyses
- Large-scale complex evaluation design and implementation
- State and national workforce data set analytics
- Quantitative and Qualitative methodologies
Research Advisory Expertise:
- State workforce initiative development
- National, state and regional workforce planning
- Health professions training, accreditation, and programming
Health Workforce Topics:
Health Workforce Professions:
- Advanced Practice Clinicians
- Behavioral Health Providers
- Case Managers, Patient Navigators, Patient Advocates
- Community Health Workers and Promotors
- Emergency Medical Services
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides
- Medical Assistants
- Nurse Practitioners
- Oral Health Providers
- Pharmacists
- Physicians
- Public Health Providers
- Technicians and Therapists
Learn more about our faculty and staff leading our high-impact research, evaluation, and implementation of new care models, health workforce training, and workforce policy that expands access to high-quality care for all.
The evidence is clear: California needs a diverse health care workforce to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population. This issue brief explores what we know about the diversity of California’s licensed health care workforce, what works to increase the diversity of health care workers, and provides examples of how to implement these strategies.
Improving access to midwifery care has been identified as a strategy to address shortages of reproductive health clinicians and ensure person-centered, equitable care. The data offer new insights into LMs’ demographics, training, client population, and practice experiences.
This study used data from a representative survey of California-licensed NPs fielded in late 2022 to examine NPs' current practice and intentions following implementation of the new regulations.