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Grants that address the issue of diversity in the health professions are commonly given to organizations that provide pipeline programs, scholarships, outreach and retention programs, internships and fellowships and loan repayment programs for ethnic minorities that are underrepresented in the health professions. Careers in medicine, nursing, public health and other allied health professions are included. Organizations that support leadership development for people of color in the health professions are also eligible for funding. In addition, the Foundation funds organizations that provide information about the California healthcare workforce to policymakers and opinion leaders.

Beginning June 1, 2008 through September 30, 2008, no letters of interest addressing this issue will be accepted.

For more information on this funding priority, please visit the Contact Us page.

Program Director

Saba Brelvi

Public Education Campaign: Increasing Diversity in the Health Professions

Make It In Scrubs (the official website of TCWF’s public education campaign to increase diversity in the health professions)
Interview with Gary. L. Yates in Philanthropy News Digest
Message from Gary L. Yates, TCWF President and CEO
News Release

Portfolio Newsletter Articles

College Access Key To Ensuring California’s Health Workforce of Tomorrow (Summer 2007)
Fellowship Program Trains Next Generation of Health Advocates (Spring 2006)
Advocacy Group Connects Working Poor to Careers in the Health Professions (Winter 2004-2005)
Health Consortium Recruits Native American Health Professionals (Summer 2003)
Medical Student Association Contributes to Reduction of Health Disparities (Summer 2002)
High School Science Program Fosters Future Medical Professionals (Summer 2001)
Grantees Address Racial and Geographic Health Disparities (Summer 2001)

Leadership Recognition Program

TCWF Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award

Resources

The Center for the Health Professions, UCSF
Center for California Health Workforce Studies, UCSF
California Department of Health Services Office of Multicultural Health

More Resources

Reports

A Survey of California Voters About Diversity in the Health Professions (PDF)
Best Practices at California Nursing Schools (PDF)
Tracking the Supply of Health Professions Education Programs in California (PDF)
Promising Practices, Promoting Diversity in California Community College Health Occupation Programs (PDF)
Increasing Latino Participation in the Nursing Profession (PDF)
Developing the California Health Care Workforce of Tomorrow (PDF)
Missing Person: Minorities in the Health Professions
Diverse Partners, Common Goal: Working Together to Improve the Health of Communities (PDF)
Health For All: Californian’s Strategic Approach to Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities (PDF)