Program on Health Professions and Primary Care
Program Director:
Donald E. Pathman, M.D. M.P.H.
Primary care should be the foundation of any health care system. Historically, and still true today, much of the Sheps Center's research in primary care has addressed access, training, personnel, organization, quality, and cost issues in delivering primary care services in rural and other underserved areas.
Faculty of The Program on Health Professions and Primary Care are also actively involved in studies and interventions related to the work, training and distributions of non-primary care physicians and other health care workers.
Projects in The Program on Health Professions and Primary Care receive funding from federal agencies (Health Resources and Services Administration, Agency for Health Care Quality and Research, CDC), NC and other state agencies, and national and local foundations.
New Editorship
Donald Pathman was recently named Co-Editor of Education for Health, the journal of the World Health Organization-affiliated group, The Network: Towards Unity for Health. The membership of Network: TUfH includes 300 medical schools around the world interested in linking resources, people and programs between schools in developing and developed countries and fostering community connections and responsibility among medical schools.
Links: Education for Health --- http://www.educationforhealth.net/home/defaultnew.asp
The Network: TUfH ---
http://www.the-networktufh.org/home/index.asp
