Policy at Healthforce is a collective effort that prioritizes systems and policy changes to advance the diversity and skills of workers to produce better economic opportunity and, ultimately, better health for communities of color, statewide public health, and individual health equity.

Guided by the values of social justice and health equity, Healthforce Center at UCSF set out to advance California-focused health workforce research that prioritizes systems and policy changes to promote the diversity and skills of health workers. To achieve this aim, we envisioned a process enriched by the voices of community members that generates workforce knowledge, informs policymaking, and supports advocacy for systems change.

As part of our commitment to a process that is community informed, we are sharing this document, which contains details on our process to date and what we’ve learned with and from all of you. A huge thank you to the extensive community in California working to build a diverse and equitable health workforce. Your feedback and interest in this effort, your willingness to meet with us to shape the work, and the many invitations and resources shared with us, have been essential to the process and getting to where we are today.