Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP
Erin P. Fraher, PhD, MPP is a health services researcher and policy analyst whose career has focused on generating workforce data to inform policy makers’ efforts to redesign workforce education, financing, and regulation to better align with population health needs. Her research focuses on interprofessional teams in new models of care, developing new methodologies to project how many health workers will be needed under different possible “futures,” and using life course theory to better understand health professionals’ career trajectories. Dr. Fraher’s research has been used by state and federal policy makers in their efforts to address workforce shortages, particularly in rural and underserved communities. She is regularly called upon to brief Congressional and Senate staff and members, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, state governors, state legislatures, health systems and other public and private sector leaders on a wide range of emerging health workforce topics. Dr. Fraher has served as an expert advisor to the National Academy of Medicine in multiple roles, serving on the planning committee, as a workshop co-chair, as a speaker on various workforce topics and as a reviewer of a NAM report. Dr. Fraher is the immediate past Chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) which is charged with advising the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Congress on workforce trends, training issues and financing. Dr. Fraher was also recently appointed to the 2024 Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors. The CBO hosts an annual meeting to discuss important and emerging health care issues and also engages with advisors throughout the year, drawing on their advice in the preparation of CBO studies and cost estimates.
Positions Held
- Director of the Program on Health Workforce Research & Policy and Deputy Director for Policy at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine
- Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management UNC-Chapel Hill
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Health Policy and Management – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Master of Public Policy (MPP) – University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics and Spanish – Wellesley College
Latest Work
- Trends in North Carolina’s Oral Health Workforce, published in the North Carolina Medical Journal
- Varying Estimates of Social Workers in the United States: Which Data Source to Use?, published in Medical Care Research and Review
- Aligning Training, Regulation, and Payment Policy to Advance the Behavioral Health Workforce, published in Health Affairs Scholar
- Trends in Workplace Violence for Health Care Occupations and Facilities Over the Last 10 Years, published in Health Affairs Scholar
- A Report on the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Workforce in North Carolina
- Lessons Learned from State-Based Efforts to Leverage Medicaid Funds for Graduate Medical Education, published in Academic Medicine
- Forecasting the Future Supply of Pediatric Subspecialists in the United States supplement article in the American Academy of Pediatrics and interactive dashboard
- Toward a Stronger Post-Pandemic Nursing Workforce, published in the New England Journal of Medicine
Connect
Email: fraher@email.unc.edu
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