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Health Workforce Programs

Our workforce programs help strengthen the health workforce and connect skilled health care providers to communities in need, improving the health of people who need it most.

We offer scholarship, loan, and loan repayment programs to individuals and award grants to organizations (For example, schools, hospitals, health departments).

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Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP)

Program Type: Scholarship
Topic: Medicine; Nursing; Oral Health; Public Health
Purpose: Provide federal financial support for Native Hawaiians who are students at health professions schools, in return for a commitment to provide primary health services to the Native Hawaiian population in the State of Hawaii.

Predoctoral Pediatric Training in General Dentistry and Dental Hygiene

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Oral Health
Purpose: Enhance dental workforce education and training to prepare predoctoral dental students, dental hygiene students, and dental hygienists to practice in new and emerging models of care that are designed to meet the needs of vulnerable, underserved, or rural communities.

Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Program

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Oral Health
Purpose: Establish a training center for the career development of junior primary care dental faculty, doctors of dental surgery, doctors of dental medicine, and dental hygienists.

The National HCOP Academies

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Behavioral or Mental Health; Medicine; Oral Health; Public Health
Purpose: Assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter and successfully complete health profession schools. The program prepares students to meet the admissions requirements for the next level of their education and receive a health professions degree or certificate.