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Health Professions Partnership Initiative

September 9, 2009 | Program Result

The Health Professions Partnership Initiative was designed to enhance the academic preparation of minority students and nurture their interest in health careers.

The Health Professions Partnership Initiative and Working Toward Diversity in the Health Care Workforce

June 1, 2006 | Journal Article

This introduction, written as a forward to a supplement on improving diversity in the health professions, summarizes some of the history of the Health Professions Partnership Initiative (HPPI), and reiterates the pressing need to increase representa ...

Dental Health Aides for Alaska Natives Observed by Dental Leaders and Professionals

July 29, 2008 | Program Result

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium led two outreach trips of local and national dental leaders and professionals to educate them about the use of dental health aide therapists to provide dental care to rural Alaska residents.

Health Professions Partnership Initiative

National Program

Program, co-sponsored with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to address long-standing under-representation in the health professions of certain racial/ethnic groups, especially African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans.

Better Jobs, Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce

National Program

To create changes in policy and practice that will lead to recruitment and retention of high-quality direct care workers in nursing homes and in home- and community-based settings.

Former RWJF Grantee Kathryn Flores Profiled on NBC Nightly News

March 10, 2009

Flores recognized for helping middle school and high school students from disadvantaged and underrepresented communities pursue their dreams of entering a health profession.

Promoting Community Health Workers to Reduce Health Disparities in Minnesota

December 20, 2012 | Program Result

Staff at the College of Allied Health and Nursing of Minnesota State University at Mankato created a curriculum and certification process for community health workers and advanced their role in the state's health care system.

Evaluation of Better Jobs, Better Care

October 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll

Better Jobs Better Care sought to change public policy and management practice to improve recruitment and retention of high-quality paraprofessional direct care workers (DCW).

Identifying Effective Catalysts for Action Toward Community Health Improvement in Underserved Communities in Wisconsin

January 4, 2011 | Report

Knowledge Asset: The goal of this project is to promote broad-based community health improvement in underserved rural communities in Wisconsin through a low-cost health communication intervention.

Expanding the Ability of Practitioners and Scholars to Assess Law as a Tool to Improve Public Health

January 4, 2011 | Report

Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.

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