{"id":6748,"date":"2022-08-23T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=6748"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:55:48","slug":"health-resources-and-services-administration-awards-4-5-million-to-uw-chws-to-continue-health-workforce-research-center-programs-in-allied-health-and-health-equity-in-the-health-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2022\/08\/23\/health-resources-and-services-administration-awards-4-5-million-to-uw-chws-to-continue-health-workforce-research-center-programs-in-allied-health-and-health-equity-in-the-health-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Resources and Services Administration awards $4.5 million to UW CHWS to continue Health Workforce Research Center Programs in Allied Health and Health Equity in the Health Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"The Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS), housed in the Department of Family Medicine<\/a> in the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine<\/a>, received two grant awards in 2022 totaling $4.5 million from the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis<\/a> within the Bureau of Health Workforce<\/a> of the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services. These five-year awards renew funding for UW CHWS\u2019 Health Workforce Research Center (HWRC) Cooperative Agreement Programs in Allied Health<\/a> and Health Equity in the Health Workforce<\/a>. Under each program, UW CHWS will conduct four to five studies each year that aim to strengthen the knowledge base on the health workforce, addressing policy-relevant topics such as the barriers to and facilitators of retaining a diverse workforce as well as health care workers\u2019 career pathways, work experiences, scope of practice, employer demand, and burnout.<\/p>\n

Bianca K. Frogner<\/a>, PhD, Director of CHWS and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine (DFM) is the Principal Investigator of both grants. Susan M. Skillman<\/a>, MS, Senior Deputy Director of UW CHWS will be the Deputy Director of the Allied Health program and Davis Patterson<\/a>, PhD, Research Associate Professor in DFM will be the Deputy Director of the program on Health Equity in the Health Workforce. Key personnel of the grants include Tracy Mroz<\/a>, PhD, OTR\/L, Associate Professor and Danbi Lee<\/a>, PhD, OTD, OTR\/L, Assistant Professor, both in the UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and LaTonya Trotter<\/a>, PhD, MA, MPH, Associate Professor in the UW Department of Bioethics and Humanities. UW CHWS staff and affiliate faculty<\/a> represent a broad range of disciplines including nursing, pharmacy, public health, rural health, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health economics, anthropology, and epidemiology.<\/p>\n

UW CHWS is part of a network of HWRC programs around the country<\/a>, each focusing on different yet overlapping topic areas of behavioral health, long-term care, oral health, public health, and emerging role, and including a health workforce technical assistance center<\/a>. For more information about UW CHWS, visit our website<\/a> or follow us on Twitter<\/a> or Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9230,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions\/9230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}