Overview
UW received our first competitive grant to support research on the allied health workforce from 2014 to 2017, a second round from 2017 to 2022, and a third round from 2022 to 2025. The most recent round of funding is approximately $2.25 million.
What is Allied Health?
The term “allied health” was first popularized when the federal Allied Health Professions Personnel Training Act was passed in 1967. While it is generally accepted that allied health professions do not include physicians, dentists, or nurses, there is not general agreement on a single list of occupations covered under this broad term. An allied health professional is defined within the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) simply as “an individual who graduated with an allied health professions degree or certificate, and is employed as an allied health professional in a health care setting” and references the Public Health Service Act, which defines allied health as trained professionals, other than registered nurses or physician assistants, who share “in the responsibility for the delivery of healthcare services or related services, including services relating to the identification, evaluation, and prevention of disease and disorders, dietary and nutrition services, health promotion services, rehabilitation services, or health systems management services.”
Funding amount: $671,875
- Y9-1: Career Mobility of Allied Health Workers During the Pandemic
- Y9-2: Finding a Career Path into the Clinical Laboratory Workforce
- Y9-3: Employment and Economic Security Among Health Care Workers During the Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Y9-4: Envisioning New Career Pathways for Pharmacy Technicians
- Y9-5*: What is Driving the Enrollment Crisis at Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy
- Y9-6*: Staffing of Allied Health Professionals in Skilled Nursing Facilities
*denotes study with supplemental funding
Funding amount: $450,000
- Y8-1: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Community Pharmacist Patient Care and Future Workforce Needs
- Y8-2: COVID’s Effect on Leveraging Public Data to Track the Allied Health Workforce
- Y8-3: System Level Supports and Barriers Home Care Workers Face During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Y8-4: Examining Local Public Health Workforce Capacity and Challenges in Addressing Population Health Needs
Funding amount: $450,000
- Y7-1: Unintended Consequences of Academic Inflation
- Y7-2: Shifting Roles and Skills of the Allied Health Workforce in Primary Care Due to Increased Use of Telehealth During the COVID-19 Emergency
- Y7-3: How Financial Support During the COVID Crisis Affected the Federally Qualified Health Center Workforce
- Y7-4: Growth and Sustainability of the U.S. Community Paramedic Workforce to Address Unmet Healthcare Needs
*denotes study with supplemental funding
Funding amount: $619,908
- Y6-1: What are Career Pathways to Registered Nursing?
- Y6-2: Occupational Therapists as part of the Behavioral Health Workforce
- Y6-3: Are Allied Health Providers Sick? If So, Are There Wage Consequences Associated with Being Sick?
- Y6-4: The Emergency Medical Services and Community Paramedic Workforces Response to COVID-19
- Y6-5*: Where and From What Industries are Health Care Workers Entering Health Care Jobs and Where are We Losing Them During COVID-19?
- Y6-6*: How are Allied Health Workers Being Deployed During COVID-19?
- Y6-7*: What Health Care Jobs and Skills are in Demand During COVID-19?
*denotes study with supplemental funding
Funding amount: $601,188
- Y5-1: Role of Allied Health Professions in Treating Pain
- Y5-2: Apprenticeships as Pathways to Healthcare Careers: Experiences of Employers Using Medical Assistant Apprenticeships
- Y5-3: Leveraging Data Phase IV: Mapping Movement of Allied Health
- Y5-4: Supply of and Demand for Therapy Services in Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Y5-5*: Assessing the Size and Scope of the Pharmacist Workforce in the US
*denotes study with supplemental funding
Funding amount: $536,570
- Y4-1: Allied Health Professionals and the “Gig Economy”: Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements
- Y4-2: The Role of Apprenticeships in Meeting Employers’ Demand for Allied Health Occupations
- Y4-3: Leveraging Data to Monitor the Allied Health Workforce: Phase III
- Y4-4: State Incentive Programs that Encourage Allied Health Professionals to Provide Care for Underserved Populations
- Y4-5*: Trends in the Supply and Demographics of Oral Health Providers in Rural Communities, 2005-2015
*denotes study with supplemental funding
Funding amount: $495,165
- Y2-1: Career Paths of Allied Health Professionals
- Y2-2: Emerging Roles in Allied Health Occupations
- Y2-3: Immigrants in Allied Health Professions
- Y2-4: Data for Allied Health Workforce Research
- Y2-5*: Emerging Health IT Roles and Skillsets
*denotes study with supplemental funding
Funding amount: $518,489
- Y1-1: Characteristics of Physician Assistant Students Planning to Work in Primary Care
- Y1-2: Veterans’ Pathways to Allied Health
- Y1-3: Veterans in Allied Health
- Y1-4: Low Skilled, Low-wage Workers in Health Care
- Y1-5*: Behavioral/Mental Health Workforce for Integrated Primary Care
*denotes study with supplemental funding
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