Diversity in the Health Workforce

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Greenlining’s current efforts in this area include:

The Bay Area Coalition to Increase Diversity in the Health Workforce is a forum to share ideas, provide mutual support on issues, work together on projects to increase health workforce diversity in the Bay Area.
A three part study examining diversity levels within career staff, faculty and students at the University of California medical schools. Click here for the career staff diversity report and click here for the faculty diversity report.
Advocacy supporting legislation that creates incentives for people of color to enter the health workforce and serve disadvantaged communities.
The Greenlining Academy program partners with organizations such as UCB School of Public Health, Center for Public Health Practice and Health Career Connection.

Health Pipeline Programs

Health pipeline programs are those that provide an individual with resources that may enable them to pursue health related careers.  These resources may be in the form of mentoring, tutoring, scholarships, exposure to various fields or training foreign trained health professionals to enter California’s health workforce.  If you would like more details on the current pipeline programs click here to download a list of Pipeline Programs in California.  If you currently work with or know of any program that helps people looking to pursue health careers or re-enter the health field please download the Pipeline Project Information Request and fax it to us at (510) 926-4010.

Bay Area Coalition to Increase Diversity in the Health Workforce

BACIDHW serves as a network of advocates working together to address the issue of lack of diversity among California’s health workforce The coalition currently meets on a quarterly basis to discuss ways to increase diversity in the health workforce.

BACIDHW has three sub-committees: Research, Policy and Advocacy, and Pipeline.  Each sub-committee informs the coalition of any updates in their particular area.  In the coalition’s effort to support people entering or re-entering the health workforce a list of pipeline programs is being created to assist them in their pursuit.  For more information regarding this program, please click here.

The coalition has three sub-committees: Research, Policy and Pipeline.  Each sub-committee informs the coalition of any updates in their particular area.  Currently the Pipeline sub-committee is working on compiling a list of pipeline programs in California that help people who are interested in health, whether it is for students looking for guidance or adults looking at entering or re-entering the field.  

Checking the Pulse Conference

The purpose of the initiative is to bring together leaders from education, advocacy, policy, and private sectors to raise awareness of the importance of diversity in the health workforce.  The initiative aims to develop strategies for reaping the benefits of California’s rich diversity by creating new industry-community partnerships, raising awareness of policy issues and strategies, as well as strategizing ways to build sustainable and successful health career pipeline programs.

Conference Highlights

Friday, April 20, 2007 8:30am-3:30pm

On Friday April 20th, 2007 The Greenlining Institute, Bay Area Coalition to Increase Diversity in the Health Workforce, University of California Office of the President California Program on Access to Care, Pacific Public Health Training Center and UC Berkeley Center for Public Health Practice co-sponsored Checking the Pulse:  An Initiative to Increase Diversity in California’s Health Workforce at The California Endowment in Los Angeles.  Initiative speakers included Dr. Kevin Barnett, Public Health Institute; Dr. Katherine Flores, UCSF-Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research; Assemblyman Mike Eng; and former Senator Deborah Ortiz. 

For a complete agenda of the initiative please click here.

Presentations from the event:

Dr. Katherine Flores - Model Pipeline Programs

Dr. Katherine Flores - Keynote - Health Workforce Diversity for the “New California” – Who will take the Challenge

Jeff Oxendine - Health Career Connection

Panelists Information:

Panel 1: Developing successful & sustainable pipeline programs & partnerships	Allen Millar, COPE Health Solutions René Macias, FACES for the Future Dr. Katherine Flores, UCSF-Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research Dr. Esiquio Casillas, White Memorial Medical Center; Care Level Management Jeff Oxendine, UC Berkeley School of Public Health Center for Public Health Practice
Panel 2: Social & private investments: The private sector’s role in increasing diversity in the health workforce	Ken Baker, Blues Shield of California Carol Lee, California Medical Association Foundation Lisa Tealer, Genentech Dr. Toni M. Hoover, Pfizer Global Research and Development
Panel 3: Framing policy in a post-Prop 209 era	Edgar Quiroz, Kaiser Permanente Assemblymember Mike Eng, California State Assembly 49th District Senator Deborah Ortiz, Caifornia State Senator (Retired) Keith Kamisugi, Equal Justice Society Lupe Alonzo-Díaz, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California

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