The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (NCHWA) is a national resource for health workforce research, information, and data. As a division within the Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), NCHWA supports policy makers with information and data to help inform decisions regarding health workforce education, training, and healthcare delivery.
As part of these efforts, NCHWA oversees HRSA’s Health Workforce Research Center (HWRC) cooperative agreement program, which provides funding to 9 centers in the US. Collectively, these Centers offer expertise in the following arenas:
• Allied health workforce (University of Washington)
• Behavioral health workforce (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Emerging health workforce topics (George Washington University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Health equity in health workforce education and training (University of Washington)
• Long-term care workforce (University of California, San Francisco)
• Oral health workforce (State University of New York, Albany)
• Public health (University of Minnesota)
• Technical assistance (State University of New York, Albany)