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Health Workforce Equity Trackers

To improve health workforce equity, the GW Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity (GWMI) tracks who is providing services, what services, where, and for whom. This allows us to approximate the adequacy of the health workforce supply for specific populations, using alternative measures of population needs. Researchers, policymakers, and advocates can use these interactive trackers to select variables depending on their own priorities. NOTE: Trackers are developed under the auspices of specific externally funded projects and, therefore, vary in their focus and the breadth of data included.    
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• ​Behavioral Health Workforce Tracker:​ The Behavioral Health Workforce Tracker is a customizable interactive map that allows you to visualize the geographic distribution of the behavioral health workforce by provider type and by Medicaid acceptance status. You can use the tool to view provider location and build additional layers of patient need, demographic, and health policy data.
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• Health Workforce Diversity Tracker: The Health Workforce Diversity Tracker provides a unique view into how the racial/ethnic diversity of the workforce in 10 key health professions varies across states. Despite recent focus on this issue, little information is available on how representation in the health professions differs across the country. This tool is intended to help people working in health education and policy understand which professions have the greatest gaps in their region.
  
  
• U.S. Prescription Contraception Workforce Tracker: The U.S. Prescription Contraception Workforce Tracker monitors the location, provider type, and distribution/provider density, and Medicaid acceptance status of the prescription contraception workforce in 2019 and 2020, with the goal of providing evidence-based support for policies and programs that can address gaps in contraceptive equity. This tracker allows researchers and others to compare states and counties across multiple aspects of the contraception workforce. Our national database of contraception providers may be used to further study how patient, provider, community, and policy characteristics align to affect access, service, quality of care, and health outcomes.​
  
  
• ​U.S. Medicaid Primary Care Workforce Tracker:  For all healthcare services, the provider workforce represents a critical piece of the puzzle in determining equitable access to essential health services. The U.S. Medicaid Primary Care Workforce Tracker focuses on the primary care workforce providing service to Medicaid populations in the United States.​

We welcome comments and questions at [email protected].

ARCHIVED TRACKERS

• COVID-19 County Workforce Estimator: A tool identifying counties likely to experience workforce strain due to high rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU occupancy. Using county-level COVID-19 hospitalization and ICU projections provided by Premier Inc. and county-level data on the number of intensivists available provided by IQVIA, the tracker calculates whether counties will have to implement crisis or contingency workforce staffing scenarios to accommodate COVID-19 surges. County executives can use this information to implement new emergency social distancing guidelines that may prevent future cases from developing as projected and mitigate expected hospital workforce strain. ​[Archived 6/29/22]
• ​Contact Tracing Workforce Estimator: A tool for state and local leaders for COVID-19 contact tracing in order to safely reopen and protect the health of communities. ​The CT Estimator uses a baseline of 15 CTs per 100,000 population and increases the number of CTs, as needed, to contact trace the 14-day number of new COVID-19 cases for each county over the course of a week (JHU CSSE). Preset case contacts and CT work capacity (e.g. the number of case interviews, contact notifications, and contact follow-ups a CT can conduct daily) were set according to available data and expert opinion. The preset parameters assume number of case contacts with social distancing and work capacity to include some social needs evaluation and case management. [Archived 6/29/22]
• ​​Emergency Vaccinator Policies for COVID-19: An interactive map showing states with temporary, emergency policies authorizing specific professions to administer COVID-19 vaccines. This new interactive tool geographically displays state policies that expand on the types of personnel authorized to administer COVID-19 vaccines beyond physicians, advanced practice nurses, and other clinicians whose scopes of practice traditionally includes vaccinations. Tracking workforce flexibility at the state level will allow researchers and policy-makers to view the geographic distribution of these policies and compare them across states. [Archived 6/29/22]