Research & Evaluation Services

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.

Health Workforce Issues 

  • Care Delivery Models

  • Care Teams

  • Education and Training

  • Law, Policy, Regulation

  • Leadership 

  • Quality of Care

  • Supply, Demand, Distribution

  • Wellbeing and Burnout

  • Workforce Diversity and Equity

Health Workforce Roles

  • 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

  • RNs

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

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.  

 

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