who we are

The Southeast Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies is part of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, an independent center within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Center conducts research and analysis with the goal of improving access to an appropriate and effective health workforce in the Southeast and North Carolina. The Center draws on the resources of the Chapel Hill Campus with its five health professions schools: medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, public health, and nursing, as well as the 16-campus University of North Carolina system to respond to the information and analysis needs of health workforce policy makers in the state, the region, and the nation. The Center also collects and maintains data describing the need for and supply of health professionals, and makes these data available for research and policy analysis purposes. The Center is supported by a cooperative aggreement with the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis in the Bureau of Health Professions, HRSA, and is one of six federally designated regional workforce analysis centers. The Center also works cooperatively with the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program (NC AHEC) and the nine statutory licensing boards for health professions in the State of North Carolina to maintain the North Carolina Health Professions Data System.

The Center includes a staff of professional analysts and programmers and supports the work of graduate students from the five health professionals schools at UNC Chapel Hill, as well as visiting scholars from other campuses and institutions. The Center sponsors a seminar series and supports a course in Health Workforce Policy Analysis. The Center is advised by an External Advisory Committee made up of leaders in the health workforce policy making at the national, state and regional levels.