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There are many words that have been used to describe Fitz -author, activist, mentor, educator, and survivor. To us, he was all those things. He was an inspiration to all those he encountered and he will be greatly missed as a friend and esteemed colleague.
Fitz had a long and distinguished career fighting to make health equity a central focus of medicine and health professions more broadly. The Mullan Institute, named in his honor, will continue to further research and education in health workforce equity with core programs such as the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, Residency Fellowship in Health Policy, and Beyond Flexner Alliance. Each of these demonstrates Fitz’s role as an inspiring mentor, teacher, and leader to scores of physicians and public health professionals (view the press release).
Fitz had a long and distinguished career fighting to make health equity a central focus of medicine and health professions more broadly. The Mullan Institute, named in his honor, will continue to further research and education in health workforce equity with core programs such as the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, Residency Fellowship in Health Policy, and Beyond Flexner Alliance. Each of these demonstrates Fitz’s role as an inspiring mentor, teacher, and leader to scores of physicians and public health professionals (view the press release).
Daniel Chen, MPH
DrPH Student, Milken Institute School of Public Health
Daniel Chen is a DrPH student in the Health Policy and Management department at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Prior to attending GW, he worked as a community organizer and community health worker in Philadelphia. Daniel's health workforce interests include: the team-based primary care design; multidisciplinary collaboration and the flexible use of workers; physical, mental, and social services integration; health workforce enhancement as an approach to address health disparities; and the role technology plays to facilitate collaboration and integration.
DrPH Student, Milken Institute School of Public Health
Daniel Chen is a DrPH student in the Health Policy and Management department at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Prior to attending GW, he worked as a community organizer and community health worker in Philadelphia. Daniel's health workforce interests include: the team-based primary care design; multidisciplinary collaboration and the flexible use of workers; physical, mental, and social services integration; health workforce enhancement as an approach to address health disparities; and the role technology plays to facilitate collaboration and integration.
NEPHROLOGY WORKFORCE STUDIES
Using a variety of data sources, including some original data collection, this project is assessing trends and factors influencing supply, demand, need, distribution and use of nephrologists. Among the factors being studied are the changing delivery and financing systems and population health needs. The goal of the project is to provide the specialty with information to promote a supply and distribution of nephrologists to assure access to high quality kidney care.
Funder: The American Society of Nephrology
Institute Member: Edward Salsberg
Using a variety of data sources, including some original data collection, this project is assessing trends and factors influencing supply, demand, need, distribution and use of nephrologists. Among the factors being studied are the changing delivery and financing systems and population health needs. The goal of the project is to provide the specialty with information to promote a supply and distribution of nephrologists to assure access to high quality kidney care.
Funder: The American Society of Nephrology
Institute Member: Edward Salsberg
The Social Mission Faculty Fellowship is a new and unique opportunity offered through the Health Policy & Social Mission Collaboration between Kaiser Permanente and the George Washington University. It aims to provide emerging physician-leaders with skills and mentorship to produce an action research project, as well as to provide opportunities to develop leadership skills and to engage in a network of learning.
The Residency Elective in Health Policy (REHP) is a unique opportunity offered through Kaiser Permanente. The goals of the REHP are to orient residents and fellows to the fast changing world of health policy, increase their knowledge of key health policy issues facing their community and the nation, and prepare them to be effective physician-leaders in systems-based practice.
XinXin Han, MS
Senior Research Associate, Milken Institute School of Public Health
PhD Candidate, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Administration
Xinxin Han joined the GW Health Workforce Research Center as a graduate research assistant in September 2015. She is also a current PhD candidate in Public Policy and Administration (Health Policy) at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy. Her current work focus is on examining workforce transformation in patient-centered medical homes, the roles and responsibilities of community health workers in federal qualified health centers, physicians willingness to accept Medicaid patients by percentage of revenue comes from Medicaid, the use of unlicensed assistive personnel in hospital settings, and the use of telehealth in National Health Services Corps grantee sites. Prior to joining the center, she worked as a research intern in the State Health Access Data Assistance Center, as a research assistant in UMN Rural Health Research Center, and as a policy research intern in TakeAction Minnesota. Xinxin Han holds a MS in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and a BA in English from Guangxi Medical University, China.
Senior Research Associate, Milken Institute School of Public Health
PhD Candidate, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Administration
Xinxin Han joined the GW Health Workforce Research Center as a graduate research assistant in September 2015. She is also a current PhD candidate in Public Policy and Administration (Health Policy) at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy. Her current work focus is on examining workforce transformation in patient-centered medical homes, the roles and responsibilities of community health workers in federal qualified health centers, physicians willingness to accept Medicaid patients by percentage of revenue comes from Medicaid, the use of unlicensed assistive personnel in hospital settings, and the use of telehealth in National Health Services Corps grantee sites. Prior to joining the center, she worked as a research intern in the State Health Access Data Assistance Center, as a research assistant in UMN Rural Health Research Center, and as a policy research intern in TakeAction Minnesota. Xinxin Han holds a MS in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and a BA in English from Guangxi Medical University, China.
EVALUATION AND INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE HRSA TEACHING HEALTH CENTERS GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
This project's goal is to better understand the model of community-based residency training and the costs of GME training in teaching health centers, and to initiate a longitudinal evaluation of teaching health centers’ contributions to the primary care workforce, particularly in underserved communities. GW will:
Funder: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Institute Member: Fitzhugh Mullan
- Build a landscape of teaching health centers’ characteristics, costs associated with training, and curricula through site visits and a systematic review of materials.
- Develop an estimate of costs of GME training in teaching health centers, including direct and indirect costs.
- Survey residents and establish a longitudinal evaluation of the teaching health centers’ production of primary care workforce including practice settings, communities served, geographic distribution of graduates, and the unique contributions of the teaching health center training experience.
Funder: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Institute Member: Fitzhugh Mullan