Challenges and Opportunities Facing the North Carolina Health Workforce
March 2, 2018
Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP; Julie Spero, MSPH; Tom Ricketts PhD, MPH; Evan Galloway, MPS; Katie Gaul, MA
Presentation to the North Carolina Health Deans
Presentation Overview
- Sheps Center houses health workforce data and expertise that are invaluable to UNC System and state policy makers
- Allied health workforce studies were funded in past by the Duke Endowment and Council for Allied Health
- State is facing significant health workforce challenges that UNC System’s health programs are well positioned to address
- Efforts to address workforce challenges are congruent with UNC System goals to increase access, affordability, student success and economic impact
- Health care jobs generally will continue to grow rapidly
- Supply has increased but workforce remains persistently maldistributed
- Racial/ethnic diversity of workforce does not match population
- Changing care delivery and payment models are:
- shifting care and workforce from inpatient to community settings
- generating new professions and roles
- Career ladders are needed