Producing a workforce of sufficient size and skills is essential to meeting the nation’s health care needs. The nation spends billions of dollars each year on the education and training of the health care workforce, yet basic, comprehensive data on workforce supply and demand do not exist. Effective decision making at the federal, state, and local level requires improved data and information on the current health workforce and a greater understanding of how changes in population will affect future demand for health professionals.

The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis works to:

• improve data collection efforts at the national and state level
• develop better tools and methods for projecting supply, demand, and potential shortages of health care professionals
• evaluate workforce policies and programs for effectiveness and efficiency

More about the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis

For additional information about the National Center, please contact LaCrystal McNair at 301-443-3578 or healthworkforcecenter@hrsa.gov