Jennifer Headley, MSW is a Project Manager/Research Associate with the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy. In her role, Jennifer assists with study design and planning, manages project implementation, and facilitates research dissemination. Her work focuses on two projects: 1) a 5-year project evaluating the impact of the UNC System Office nursing program expansion… Read more »
Category: Workforce Staff
Catherine Moore, PhD, MSN, RN
Catherine Moore, PhD, MSN, RN joined the Program for Health Workforce Research and Policy in April. Dr. Moore joins the team as the Director of Sheps Health Workforce NC and the North Carolina Health Professions Data System (NC Health Workforce – North Carolina Health Professional Supply Data). She will lead state health workforce initiatives in… Read more »
Abhi Joshi, MCS

Abhi Joshi, MCS is a Data Analyst for the UNC Sheps Center Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy, providing data management and statistical analysis services. Abhi holds a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Statistics from UNC Charlotte and a concentration in Software, Systems & Networks. He also holds a Master of… Read more »
Brooke Lombardi, PhD
Brooke Lombardi, PhD, MSW, joined our team as a Research Associate/Project Manager on the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center and the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center. Dr. Lombardi holds both a PhD in Social Work and an MSW from UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Lombardi’s work focuses on the intersection of sexual victimization and the perinatal period… Read more »
Haley Simons
Haley Simons joined our team as a Program Coordinator. Haley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill. Haley will be supporting the research team with coordination and dissemination efforts across multiple platforms and audiences to increase the reach and accessibility of our work. … Read more »
Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW
Dr. Lombardi holds faculty appointments at UNC as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and as a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work. Dr. Lombardi received her master’s degree in Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD in Social Work from the University of North Carolina… Read more »
Evan Galloway, MPS
Evan Galloway, MPS is a Research Associate with the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. He develops web-based interactive visualizations for exploring health workforce data. He received his Master of Professional Science in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of North Carolina at… Read more »
Tom Bacon, DrPH
Tom Bacon, DrPH, is chair of the Board of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine. For the past seventeen years Dr. Bacon served as Executive Associate Dean and NC AHEC Program Director at the UNC School of Medicine, until his retirement in July of 2013. Previously he served as Executive Director of the Mountain AHEC… Read more »
Thomas C. Ricketts, PhD, MPH
Thomas Ricketts, III, PhD, MPH is a Professor of Health Policy and Management and Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC School of Medicine. In 2008 he was named Gillings Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Santé Publique in Paris and Rennes,… Read more »
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… Read more »
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