Policy Resources

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Healthforce Center's Policy Advisory values a community-driven and collaborative approach to transforming the health workforce.

Our policy priority areas are emergent and responsive to the evolving needs of our healthcare policy landscape. Current priority areas have been shaped by 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 focus of our policy advisory is to accelerate the dissemination of Healthforce Center's policy workforce research and evidence into the hands of community advocates and policymakers to advance solutions to meet California's most pressing policy needs.

Our resources and priority areas will continue to evolve in response to the emerging needs in our dynamic policy landscape.

Health Workforce Development and Retention
"From the Valley, for the Valley." Insights on Health Care Workforce Development in the San Joaquin Valley
August 2025
Diversity Matters: Strategies to Diversify California’s Health Care Workforce
July 2025
Diversity Matters: Evidence to Diversify California’s Health Care Workforce
July 2025
Using Public Data for Regional Health Workforce Planning: A Toolkit
July 2025
The Role of Nurse Practitioner Diversity in Expanding Care Access in California
July 2025
Accelerated Health Professions Education Programs in California
June 2025
Strengthening Personal Care Aide Workforce: Advancing Consistency, Training, and Equity
June 2025
Equitable Data and Technology Integration
AI and the Health Care Workforce
June 2025
Leveraging Health Workforce Data For Regional Workforce Planning
December 2024
Emerging Policy Areas
Policies and Initiatives Impacting Medi-Cal Dental Care: 2014 - 2023
January 2025
Community-Informed Health Workforce Policy
Policy at Healthforce: How Community Feedback Shaped Our Research Agenda for 2025
February 2025
Policy at Healthforce: Learnings and Progress from Year One
June 2024
Shaping the Research Priorities for Health Workforce Policy: An Update and Invitation
June 2024
Announcing Our New Initiative to Strengthen California’s Health Workforce
October 2023