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HRSA’s Reorganization
Diane Rodill, Ph.D.
Senior Public Health Advisor
National Allied, Geriatrics & Rural Health Programs
Division of State, Community & Public Health/BHPr
Health Resources and Services Administration
Bureau of Health Professions
Mission and Functions
Mission: To increase health care access by assuring a health
professions workforce that meets the needs of the public.
Functions:
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Develop the health professions workforce through research, analysis,
and planning
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Improve distribution and diversity of health professionals to
rural/urban underserved areas
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Improve the quality of health professions practice and education
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Focus on key 21st century health professions issues (geriatrics,
genetics, diversity/distribution)
Department of Health and Human Services
Bureau of Health Professions
Bureau of Health Professions
Associate Administrator
Sam Shekar, M.D., M.P.H
Deputy Associate Administrator
Neil Sampson, M.P.H., M.G.A.
Ricky Ray Staff
Principal Advisor to the Associate Administrator
Caroline Lewis
Director
Paul Clark
Office of Peer Review
Office of Program Support
Office of Policy and Planning
National Center for Health
Workforce Analysis
Director
* Theresa Derville
Director
Jone Williams
* Director
Marcia Davenport, M.D., M.P.H.
* Director
Marilyn Biviano Ph.D
Division of Medicine
and Dentistry
Division of Nursing
Director
Carol Bazell, M.D.
Director
Denise Geolot, Ph.D
Division of Health
Careers Diversity &
Development
Division of Practitioner
Data Banks
Division of State,
Community and
Public Health
* Director
Henry Lopez
Director
John Heyob
* Director
Jeffrey Dunlap
Division of National
Health Service Corps
* Director
Donald Weaver, M.D
National Health Service Corps
• One-stop shopping for health care
professionals
• Allows BHPr to concentrate on President’s
NHSC Initiative
• Places workforce program in THE workforce
Bureau
NHSC-Service Challenge
Need: Over 23,000 Clinicians are Needed
to Provide an Adequate Level of
Access to Health Care
Clinicians
Requested
NHSC
Serving
Demand: Almost 3,000 Requests for
Recruitment Assistance
have been Received from
Underserved Communities
Clinicians
Needed
Response: About 2,400 NHSC Clinicians
are Serving Nationwide
Five Regional Centers for Health
Workforce Studies
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University of California/ San Francisco
(UCSF)
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State University of NY/Albany
(SUNY/Albany)
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University of Illinois/Chicago (UIC)
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University of Texas Health Sciences
Center, San Antonio
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University of Washington/Seattle (UW)
(The WWAMI Center)
National Center for Health Workforce Information
and Analysis (National Center)
Mission and Strategic Plan Highlights
Mission:
Collect, analyze, and disseminate health workforce information
and facilitate national, state, and local workforce planning efforts.
Strategic Plan Functions:
• Function 1: Collect health professions related data.
• Function 2: Assist State and local workforce planning efforts.
• Function 3: Conduct issues related analyses.
• Function 4: Conduct evaluations of health professions training
programs.
• Function 5: Develop tools and conduct research on health
workforce.
Division of State, Community
and Public Health
• “Glue” Division
• Over 300 grants
• Programs include: Primary Care Offices, State Loan
Repayment, and Secretary’s Award for Health
Promotion and Disease Prevention.
DSCPH Leadership
• Jeff Dunlap, M.S.P.H., Division Director
– Phone: 301-443-1648 Email: [email protected]
• Andy Jordan, M.S.P.H., Deputy Division Director
– Phone: 301-443-1648 Email: [email protected]
• Lou Coccodrilli, M.P.H., Director, National AHEC Program
– Phone: 301-443-6950 Email: [email protected]
• Joan Weiss, Ph.D., R.N., C.R.N.P., Director, National Allied,
Geriatric and Rural Health Programs
– Phone: 301-443-6887 Email: [email protected]
• Doug Lloyd, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Public Health
– Phone: 301-443-6853 Email: [email protected]
Area Health Education Center
• Model State-Supported Area Health Education
Centers
• Basic/Core Area Health Education Centers
• Health Education Training Centers
Allied, Geriatric and Rural Health
• Quentin N. Burdick Rural Interdisciplinary
Training Program
• Geriatric Education Centers Program
• Allied Health Special Projects
• Chiropractic Program
• Graduate Psychology Education Program
Center for Public Health
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Public Health Training Centers
Public Health Traineeships
Preventive Medicine Residency Program
Health Administration Traineeships
Emerging Challenges
• Medical Technology
• Radiology Technology
• Cytotechnologists
If you want a year of prosperity, grow
grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity,
grow trees. If you want 100 years of
prosperity, grow people.