Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity

We all deserve access to high quality healthcare. The California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) operates a wide range of health workforce programs to assure Californians have access to high quality care. In the Spring of 2023, HCAI partnered with the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity to conduct an equity analysis of the award making and administrative processes for 29 HCAI programs with funding support from the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF). Over an 18-month period, we conducted a comprehensive review of HCAI programs and a national scan of best practices relevant to HCAI’s equity goals, and provided 19 recommendations that HCAI can implement to strengthen the impact of their health workforce development programs through their award making and administrative processes. These results are now available on HCAI’s Research Data Center page. See: “Elevating Equity Through California’s Workforce Funding Processes: Final Recommendations for California’s Department of Health Care Access and Information” https://lnkd.in/e-BQKvqQ 

📣 Open now: apply to our U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sponsored Health Equity Leadership Development Initiative Fellowship! 📝 Description: The Health Equity Leadership Development Initiative (HELDI) aims to develop and support future federal leaders in public health and health equity, with a focus on recruiting individuals from groups that have been underrepresented in federal government leadership positions. 👨🎓 Who is eligible? People who received a graduate degree in the last two years or are graduating this year with a public-health related graduate degree; identify as someone from a minoritized group; are a US citizen or national; exhibit commitment to advancing health equity and addressing social determinants of health through policies, programs, and practices. 📅 When and where is the fellowship? This is a one year in-residence fellowship in Washington, DC from July 2025 - June 2026. Fellows will receive a one-year stipend of $60,000. 📥 Where do I apply? Visit our website at https://lnkd.in/eKbwYSze to apply and learn more. Maria Portela MD,MPH, FAAFP Akshita Siddula, MSPH Simone Perez-Garcia Toyese Oyeyemi Candice Chen Social Mission Alliance #HealthEquity #Fellowship #SocialDeterminants #PublicHealth

In their new Forefront article, Finn Dobkin Finn Dobkin, Julia Strasser, Patricia Pittman, and Edward S. Salsberg of the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity discuss how the policies proposed by Project 2025, if implemented, could fundamentally reshape not only the landscape of reproductive health access, but also the broader health care workforce in problematic ways that extend far beyond what has been observed in individual states. "Among the ideas floated by the leaders of Project 2025 are significant changes to reproductive health and labor law, both of which could impact the ability of clinicians to practice within the full scope of their training, as well as their ability to shape workplace conditions to benefit patient health and safety. With advocates and practitioners alike already concerned about access, burnout, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health workforce, the policy platform presented by Project 2025 would likely have significant ramifications for the health workforce, as well as downstream public health impacts." Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/3YIJRUr

“Solutions to the problem of health worker despair and attrition must include addressing the drivers that cause burnout and moral injury, which are both relational and operational.” Janice Blanchard, Lauren Munoz, Margaret Ziemann, & Patricia Pittman wrote a response to a recent article about physician suicide rates, to emphasize the drivers that can lead to depression and suicide and call for relational and operational changes to tackle burnout and moral injury. https://lnkd.in/eRGcTbcg Learn more about healthcare burnout and moral injury, plus a library of resources, at www.wpchange.org #WorkplaceWellnessWednesday

🔦Staff Spotlight: Julia Mattingly Julia Mattingly is in her second year working with the Mullan Institute as a Research Assistant. She currently supports a 3-year program evaluation of the California Medicine Scholars Program, a pathway program that taps into the diversity of the California Community Colleges to support and increase the numbers of underrepresented minority physicians. She also assists in a program evaluation of the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine's Human Dimension curriculum. In addition to her work with the Mullan Institute, Julia is also a Public Policy PhD student with The George Washington University.

An article from the Workplace Change Collaborative was awarded Editor's Choice in the recent edition of the journal of the American Psychological Association. 👏 This article investigated facilitators and barriers to implementation of evidence-informed strategies to address burnout and improve mental health among the health workforce. "Findings suggest health and public safety organizations continued to struggle with staffing post-COVID, increasing the challenges of implementing their programs to improve burnout and well-being. However, just 18 months into their activities, grantees reported their efforts were leading to changes in organizations, culture, and the experiences of individuals." Read "Lessons Learned From the Health Resources and Services Administration Health Workforce Well-Being Grantees" at https://lnkd.in/eWrVyt-q Authors: Randl Dent, Ph.D., Julia Strasser, Lauren Muñoz, Margaret Ziemann, Alys Barton, Becka DeSmidt, Lauren Scanlon (Enright), Patricia Pittman, & Candice Chen The Workplace Change Collaborative is a unique partnership between the Mullan Institute, Moral Injury of Healthcare, IHI, and AFT Healthcare. Visit www.wpchange.org to learn more. #WorkplaceWellnessWednesday

There are a lot of questions you can answer using Medicaid contraceptive workforce tracker (https://lnkd.in/eTTAqJ_Z), here’s how you can use it: 📊 When looking at the “provider to population ratio,” learn about the number of Medicaid providers who are providing contraception care in proportion to the Medicaid population of females aged 15-44. This will help answer questions like “how many family medicine physicians who provide contraception are there in the state of Illinois compared to every 100,000 women of reproductive age in the state?”   📊 If you select “% Participating” under the menu option “measure” you’ll notice a new option show up in the menu called “denominator”. Depending on what you select for the denominator, this will show you: (A) Of all providers in the US, what percent of them provide contraception & bill Medicaid for it? (B) Of all providers in the US who accept Medicaid, what percent of them provide contraception & bill Medicaid for it? (C) Of all providers in the US who accept Medicaid AND provide care to reproductive age women, what percent of them provide contraception & bill Medicaid for it?   What questions do you have that you want to explore? Let us know in the comments below.

New Release: View the HWRCs' 2024 Annual Report to see the latest #research by the federally-funded health workforce research centers!#COVID-19 #burnout #telehealth #healthequity https://ow.ly/Hi8450TI3Lg Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSAgov), HHS UAlbany College of Integrated Health Sciences

🌟 Staff Spotlight 🌟 Sharon White is our Senior Financial Analyst. She joined the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity after working for various departments in the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine & Health Sciences, where she provided research and business operations support. In addition to her budget planning and analysis, her work for AFHE helps ensure our current and Senior Fellows are able to travel and participate fully in all of our convenings and programming! Sharon holds an MS in Project Management from George Washington University.

In 2020, while all states had at least one clinician providing IUDs to Medicaid beneficiaries, 43% of counties had no IUD providers.   See for yourself and answer your own research questions using the free interactive map at https://lnkd.in/eTTAqJ_Z