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Sheps Health Workforce NC is working with the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (NC AHEC) and many health workforce groups and associations to launch a statewide initiative to gather health workforce concerns about recruitment, retention, and workforce skill needs. This effort – the NC Sentinel Network – is a tool to understand health employers’… Read more »

  Emily McCartha, PhD is joining the Sheps Center health workforce team as a Research Project Manager after spending five years in a non-partisan research office in the North Carolina General Assembly and a brief period in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. She also serves as an adjunct instructor in the UNC… Read more »

Four new projects have been funded for 2021-2022, Year 9 of the HRSA-funded Carolina Health Workforce Center. Projects include geospatial analyses of whether behavioral health providers are co-located with buprenorphine prescribers and whether pharmacist are co-located with primary care providers, as well as a deep dive on the factors contributing to physician burnout which builds… Read more »

  Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW is joining the health workforce team as the Deputy Director for the HRSA-funded Carolina Health Workforce Research Center. 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… Read more »

Hilary Campbell, PharmD, JD joined the Program for Health Workforce Research & Policy on March 15th, 2021. Dr. Campbell is joining the team as the Director of Sheps Health Workforce NC and the North Carolina Health Professions Data System; she will state health workforce initiatives within the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy. Prior… Read more »

A recent Sheps Health Workforce NC brief written by Esita Patel, PhD found that National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) estimates of nurses across hospital settings similar to North Carolina (NC) licensure data estimates. She analyzed the number of hospital nurses working in three settings (emergency department, inpatient, outpatient) using data from the 2018… Read more »

Researchers Identify Strategies to Ensure, Sustain Health Workforce During Pandemic Health Workforce Research Center Directors, including Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP in the UNC Department of Family Medicine, highlight strategies to sustain the healthcare workforce to meet the needs of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tony Kane, MS joined the UNC workforce team on March 1st as a Research Associate and Data Analyst. Tony has been working in data modeling, administration and analysis for over three decades. Half of his career was spent at the NC Area Health Education Center, where he frequently drew on data from the North Carolina… Read more »

Around the country, the collective voice of eight directors of health workforce research centers, including Dr. Erin Fraher of the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center, came together to call for a reforming of laws and regulations that limit the practice of health professionals.

A group of UNC Family Medicine researchers, led by associate professor Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, has been awarded a $255,000 grant from The Duke Endowment to study UNC Family Medicine’s shift to a value-based healthcare model. The project, “Producing the Evidence Needed for Hospitals to Successfully Navigate the Shift to Value,” will begin January 1, 2020… Read more »

Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP just won the Data Visualization challenge at the International Health Workforce Collaborative’s (IHWC) Data Olympics for 2019. In this challenge, IHWC asked participating countries to showcase a creative and innovative project that demonstrates effective use of data visualization for knowledge translation. Fraher presented on two interactive data visualization tools, DocFlows and… Read more »

This past week, Erin Fraher, PhD presented at Duke Grand rounds on healthcare transformation, the role of MAs in primary care practices and “the State of the State.” Here’s an overview: The health care system is undergoing rapid change. Workforce will need to transform The State of the State-despite what you see in the press,… Read more »

Meet the two newest members of our staff, Shikira Thomas, MSPH and Heather Wilson. Shikira Thomas, MSPH | Research Associate-Project Manager Shikira Thomas is a Research Associate-Project Manager for the Health Workforce Research Center. She provides support in coordination, planning and implementation of the center’s projects. She is a recent MSPH graduate from the Department… Read more »