HWRCs’ Annual Report, 2023

The 2023 HWRCs’ Annual Report captures all of the HRSA-sponsored work conducted by the HWRCs throughout the past year. Topics include COVID-19, burnout, telehealth, health equity, health professions education, and more! This year’s report also introduces 2 new HWRCs: the UNC Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center and the Consortium for Workforce Research in Public Health.

Demystifying Infographics: How to Visualize Your Research

In this second video in our HWTAC Dissemination Video Series, learn why infographics are an important communication tool to help your research reach a broader audience. We’ll also take you step by step through the process of selecting content, creating data visualizations, and organizing your layout. This is follow-up to Video 1: “How to Condense…

Characteristics of Public Health Registered Nurses and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: Lessons Learned From the 2018 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses

Little research has compared the demographic and practice characteristics of registered nurses (RNs) who work in public health (PH RNs) with other RNs and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who work in public health (PH APRNs) with other APRNs. This article examines differences in characteristics between PH RNs and other RNs and between PH APRNs…

Advancing Behavioral Health Workforce Research and Policy

In this webinar, experts from the UNC Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center will provide an overview of research efforts designed to inform policies which support the behavioral health workforce and increase access to quality behavioral health services.

Physicians As Shock Absorbers: The Structural Sources of Discontent in Medicine

Despite repeated calls for systemic solutions to physician stress, few studies have actually examined how “the system works”—ie, how structural factors intersect in real-time to create unhealthy work environments. This webinar explored how organizational-, professional-, and societal-level factors intersect to shape wellbeing and job satisfaction, based on an 8-month ethnography at an urban pediatrics clinic….

Virtual Meeting Q&A: Growing, Sustaining, and Supporting the Birth Doula Workforce

There has been growing interest in recent years about doula care and its role in addressing racial disparities in maternal health. Over half of the states in the US are currently exploring or in the process of implementing Medicaid coverage for doula care. During this virtual meeting our panel of experts answered audience questions about…

How to Condense Research Findings

This is the first video in our HWTAC Dissemination Video Series, developed to assist researchers in sharing their study findings with the widest audience. In this video you will learn how to: • Select research findings that will be the most impactful • Communicate those key findings with concise, easy-to-understand language

AHRQ’s Physician and Physician Practice Research Database (3P-RD) Webinar

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Physician and Physician Practice Research Database (3P-RD) which captures census data of physicians and physician practices in 13 states, including characteristics that may be useful for analytic purposes. This webinar describes how these databases were built and how to gain access to them for your…

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