Understanding Available Data Sources to Estimate the Size and Distribution of Community Health Workers in the United States

Product: Manuscript published in Medical Care Research and Review Authors: Brianna Lombardi, Brooke Lombardi, Evan Galloway, Lisa de Saxe Zerden Community Health Workers (CHWs) are an important workforce for health systems to achieve health equity and reduce health disparities in vulnerable communities. This study used the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) to understand… Read more »

Trends in North Carolina’s Oral Health Workforce

Product Type: Manuscript published in the North Carolina Medical Journal Authors: Brooke Lombardi, Catherine Moore, Haley Simons, Connor Sullivan, Evan Galloway, Erin Fraher Abstract: Work remains in North Carolina to effectively increase access to oral health care and address the maldistribution of the dental workforce. This study provides updated data on the oral health workforce… Read more »

Future Supply of Pediatric Surgeons

Product: publication in the Annals of Surgery  Authors: Thomas C. Ricketts; William T. Adamson; Erin P. Fraher; Andy Knapton ; James D. Geiger; Fizan Abdullah; Michael D. Klein Read the manuscript 

Shaping the Clinical Learning Environment to Meet the Evolving Needs of the Health Care System and Patients

Product type: presentation given at NexusSummit2019, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. August 19, 2018. Presenter: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Summary:  My frame I am a workforce researcher and policy wonk The context lots of uncertainty, lots of pressure and rapidly changing payment and care delivery models The health workforce is shifting to ambulatory… Read more »

A Copernican Revolution in Graduate Medical Education: Putting Patients’ Health Care Needs at the Center of GME Discussions

Product type: presentation at The Robert Graham Center Primary Care Forum: Senate Staffer Briefing. Washington DC. March 20, 2019. Presenters: Erin Fraher, PhD Overview:  Foment a Copernican Revolution: Reframe GME policy to put patients at center, not physicians Align GME Funding with Population Health Needs Address rural population’s “essential health care services” Promote generalist training… Read more »

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… Read more »

Health Workforce Trends and Challenges in North Carolina and the United States

December 7, 2017 Julie Spero, MSPH; Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Presentation to the North Carolina Statewide AHEC Conference Presentation Overview Current workforce trends in the US & NC Nurse Education Medical School and Residency Big picture health system change: What does it mean for the workforce? This work was supported by the NC AHEC Program.

Health Workforce Trends and Challenges in the Carolinas and the United States

November 9, 2017 Julie Spero, MSPH; Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Presentation to the Rural Hospital Conference of the Carolinas Conference Presentation Overview NC and SC health workforce data systems Current workforce trends in the US & Carolinas Nurse Education Obstetric care in rural NC Medical School and Residency Big picture health system change: What does… Read more »

NC’s Oral Health Workforce: Distribution, Diversity, and Access to Care

May 10, 2017 Julie Spero, MSPH; Jacqueline Burgette; Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP; Evan Galloway, MPS; Katie Gaul, MA; Thomas C. Ricketts, III, PhD, MPH Presentation to the NC Dental Public Health Educational Conference Presentation Overview Concerns about NC dentist supply Dentists are geographically maldistributed Progress to be made on race & gender diversity You can… Read more »