Our Mission

The UW CHWS elevates the importance of the workers who comprise the health workforce in policy discussions and decisions. To accomplish its mission, the UW CHWS:

  • conducts research to inform health workforce planning and policy;
  • provides consultation to local, state, regional and national policy makers on health workforce issues;
  • and develops and refines analytical methods to support health workforce planning.
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News

 

UW CHWS Director Interviewed by KOMO News on Gender-Based Wage Gaps Among Health Care Workers

Bianca Frogner, UW CHWS Director, was recently interviewed by KOMO News on gender-based wage gaps [...]

CHWS Research on the Doula Workforce Is Among the 10 Most Cited Articles in Health Equity in 2023

There is continued interest in better understanding, supporting, and growing the doula workforce. This is [...]

The March 2024 CHWS Newsletter is available now!

Health workforce needs and challenges are critical and persistent topics of discussions by policymakers, educators, [...]

UW CHWS Director Received the 2023 UW Medicine Award for Excellence in Mentoring Women Faculty

Bianca Frogner, UW CHWS Director, received the 2023 UW Medicine Award for Excellence in Mentoring [...]

UW CHWS Deputy Director of Health Equity Appointed to Advisory Board of the National Center for Rural Health Professions

Davis Patterson, Deputy Director of the CHWS HWRC on Health Equity and Director of the [...]

UW CHWS Director Joins Editorial Advisory Board of The Milbank Quarterly

UW CHWS Director Bianca Frogner was invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of The [...]

Gender Pay Gap Study is Selected as “Editor’s Choice”

Women gained representation and wages among health care jobs with higher educational requirements yet gender [...]

CHWS Study 3rd Most Downloaded Paper of 2023 in the American Journal of Public Health

The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) identified a CHWS study was as the third [...]

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