Product type: keynote presentation delivered at the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers on June 11th, 2020. Authors: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, with the with the Nursing Workforce Team. Summary: •I believe in power of data to shape policy •We are in uncharted waters •Data and evidence must be our north star ―Pre Pandemic… Read more »
Will Community Health Centers Survive COVID‐19?
Product type: Commentary published in the Journal of Rural Health May, 2020. Authors: Brad Wright, PhD, Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, Marni Gwyther Holder, MSN, Jill Akiyama, MSPH, Brian Toomey, MSW Summary: Federally qualified community health centers (CHCs) are the nation’s primary care safety net, serving a patient population of whom 68% have incomes below the… Read more »
Office Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT)—the Workforce Treating Opioid Use Disorder
Product type: publication in Health, Interprofessional Practice & Education Authors: Lisa de Saxe Zerden, PhD, Brianna Lombardi, MSW, Erica Richman, PhD, Anjalee Sharma, MSW. Background: The current opioid crisis in the United States is a recognized national health emergency. The number of opioid-related deaths has more than quadrupled since 1999. Over 42,000 individuals died from opioid use… Read more »
Ensuring and Sustaining a Pandemic Workforce
Product type: article published in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on April 8th, 2020 Authors: Erin P. Fraher, Ph.D., M.P.P., Patricia Pittman, Ph.D., Bianca K. Frogner, Ph.D., Joanne Spetz, Ph.D., Jean Moore, Dr.P.H., Angela J. Beck, Ph.D., M.P.H., David Armstrong, Ph.D., and Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N. Overview: Directors of publicly and privately funded workforce researcher centers, Bianca Frogner, PhD,… Read more »
Modernizing Scope-of-Practice Regulations — Time to Prioritize Patients
Product type: article published in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on February 13th, 2020. Authors: Bianca K. Frogner, Ph.D., Erin P. Fraher, Ph.D., M.P.P., Joanne Spetz, Ph.D., Patricia Pittman, Ph.D., Jean Moore, Dr.P.H., Angela J. Beck, Ph.D., M.P.H., David Armstrong, Ph.D., and Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N. Overview: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, Bianca Frogner PhD and the directors of… Read more »
Developing Workforce Models and Data Visualizations that Engage, Educate and Provoke Policy Makers
Product type: Presentation at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Policy Lab Morning Speaker Series, January 23, 2020. Authors: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Overview: My frame: objective, “data agitating” workforce researcher and policy wonk A brief history of workforce projections—it hasn’t gone so well The science of projecting the “right” number of health professionals is still… Read more »
Social Work and Electronic Health Records: A New Frontier for Health Workforce Research
Product type: publication in Family, Systems & Health Authors: Lisa de Saxe Zerden, MSW, PhD, Erica L. Richman, MSW, PhD, Brianna M. Lombardi, MSW, PhD, Kim Shoenbill, MD, PhD, Erin Fraher, MPP, PhD. Introduction: As one of the largest groups of clinically trained mental health providers in the United States, social workers are increasingly deployed on integrated health… Read more »
How Data and Evidence Can (and Should!) Inform Scope of Practice
Product type: presentation to the North Carolina Institute of Medicine Health Policy Fellows on December 9th, 2019 Author: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, Julie Spero, MSPH, Shikira THomas, MSPH, Evan Galloway, MPS, Heather Wilson, BA Summary: Scope of practice (SOP) battles are emerging with increased frequency Health professional regulation is state function result is significant variation… Read more »
A Transformed Health Care System Requires a Transformed Workforce
Product type: presentation to National Academy of Medicine Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Symposium, November 21st, 2019 Author: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Summary: New care models are not showing expected outcomes – potentially because we’re designing the workforce around health professions, not patients Care is shifting from acute to outpatients, community and home… Read more »
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 »
Developing Data Visualizations that Educate, Engage and Provoke
Product type: presentation at the International Health Workforce Collaborative’s (IHWC) 2019 Data Olympics event in Ottawa, Canada. October, 2019. Authors: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP; Evan Galloway, MS; Julie Spero, MSPH; Shikira Thomas, MSPH; Heather Wilson. Overview: Short presentation on DocFlows and NC Health Workforce Began developing data visualizations in 2015 to increase access, interest and… Read more »
Developing the Patient-Centered Workforce Needed for our Rapidly Changing Healthcare System
Product type: presentation at Duke Grand Rounds to the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Presenter: Erin Fraher, PhD 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, NC (generally) doesn’t face shortages. It’s a maldistribution issue—by geography, specialty,… Read more »
The role of social work in the opioid epidemic: Office-Based Opioid Treatment Programs
Product type: manuscript in Health & Social Work, September 2019. Authors: Brianna M. Lombardi, Lisa de Saxe Zerden, Ting Guan & Amy Prentice Abstract: The opioid epidemic is a national emergency in the United States. To meet the needs of individuals diagnosed with Opioid Use. Disorder (OUD) office-based opioid treatment programs (OBOT) are quickly expanding…. Read more »
Health Workforce Research and Collaborations Underway at the Sheps Center to Address Population Health Needs in North Carolina
Product type: presentation for the North Carolina DHHS, April 18, 2019. Presenters: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, Julie Spero, MSPH and Evan Galloway, MPS Overview: Who we are and what we do Routine Analyses of State Health Workforce Work with State Agencies Current Projects State of Health Workforce in NC If it seems to easily fit—how… Read more »
Special Needs in Rural America and Implications for Workforce Education and Training
Product type: presentation at the Council on Graduate Medical Education in Washington, DC. June 5, 2019. Presenter: Erin Fraher, PhD Overview: Rural populations less healthy on almost every measure Need to foment a “Copernican Revolution” to reframe GME policyto put patients at center of discussions Need to align training and financing to address rural population’s“essential… Read more »