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UW CHWS Director Bianca Frogner discusses scope of practice changes in response to COVID-19

Dr. Frogner joins Dr. Joanne Spetz, Associate Director of Research at Healthforce Center at UCSF, [...]

How many health care workers are at risk of being sacrificed to COVID-19 in the US?

[box title=””]Bianca K. Frogner, PhD Director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies Associate Professor, [...]

UW CHWS Spring 2020 Newsletter

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is highlighting stress points in the U.S. health system. [...]

UWFM Professor joins Directors around the Country Calling for Modernizing Scope of Practice Regulations

Bianca K. Frogner, PhD, Director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies and Associate Professor [...]

Wrapping up the Year with CHWS Newsletter Cheer!

The CHWS team has had a very eventful year, with new hires and new collaborators [...]

Senior Deputy Director Sue Skillman & WA Workforce Board members engage State House Health & Wellness Committee

Sue Skillman and the Workforce board team consisting of Nova Gattman, Liz Coleman & Julia [...]

NPR Patti Neighmond interviews Director Bianca Frogner about her study showing that seeing a physical therapist can curb opioid use.

The study “Physical Therapy as the First Point of Care to Treat Low Back Pain: [...]

CHWS and RHRC attend the NW Rural Health Conference

Our UW CHWS and WWAMI RHRC team recently attended the 2018 NW Rural Health Conference [...]

UW CHWS Director Bianca Frogner and Joanne Spetz of UCSF discuss health policy in Health Affairs Journal

Drs. Frogner and Spetz discuss the potential impact that proposed policy changes might have on [...]

UW CHWS cited extensively by Politico on role of immigrants in health workforce

One of the biggest future crises in U.S. health care is about to collide with [...]