Health Workforce

The Institute for Health & Aging (IHA) is advancing workforce development through innovative strategies that empower healthcare providers and strengthen health systems. Research focuses on labor market analyses and health workforce planning to support evidence-based policies, as well as optimizing service delivery models using behavioral science. This work ensures that frontline providers, such as pharmacists and community health workers, are equipped to deliver critical health services effectively, fostering sustainable and equitable healthcare solutions to address diverse global and local needs. 

Projects

Conceptual Framework for Anti-Racist, Equitable, Community-Driven Health Workforce Research and Policy Making

This project aims to develop a framework that will offer a way for researchers, community-based organizations, healthcare organizations, workforce development groups and advocates to conceptualize how to advance future health workforce policy/work that advances health equity and does not perpetuate structural racism, white supremacy culture and other systems of oppression/construct (and deconstruct) policies.

Principal Investigator: Rosalind De Lisser

Evaluation Plan for California's Behavioral Health Workforce Expansion Plan

This project in collaboration with California Department of Health Care Access and Information creates a high-level evaluation plan to support California's Behavioral Health Workforce expansion supported by Prop 63 and Prop 1.

Principal Investigator: Rosalind De Lisser

High Road Training Partnership (HRTP) 

HRTP evaluates training programs for California’s In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) caregivers, focusing on Alzheimer's and dementia care as well as emergency preparedness. 

Reducing the Social and Economic Impacts of Caregiving for Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) in the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) System through Training (IHSS+ ADRD Training Project) 

This project implements and evaluates a dementia training program for IHSS caregivers and clients in Alameda and Los Angeles counties to improve caregiving competencies. 

Supporting Young Women's Reproductive Health by Harnessing Prosociality Among Drug Shopkeepers 

This study tests strategies to motivate Tanzanian drug shopkeepers to sustain services for AGYW’s reproductive health needs, enhancing an existing loyalty program to promote sustainable, cost-effective scaling. 

Understanding the Preferences of Pharmacy Shopkeepers in Dispensing Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: A Discrete Choice Experiment 

This project uses a discrete choice experiment to understand Tanzanian pharmacy shopkeepers' preferences for dispensing PrEP, complemented by mystery client visits to evaluate biases in service provision.