Breadcrumb
  1. Home
  2. Health Workforce Programs

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).

Search BHW Programs

31-40 of 76 BHW Program Pages

Loans for Disadvantaged Students (LDS)

Program Type: School Loan Program
Topic: Medicine; Oral Health
Purpose: Assist accredited public schools and educational intuitions in offering low-interest loans to degree-seeking students in the health care field.

Medical Student Education (MSE) Program

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Medicine
Purpose: Support community-based primary care residency programs to train primary care physician and dental residents in underserved and rural settings.

National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program

Program Type: Scholarship
Topic: Medicine; Nursing
Purpose: Provide scholarships to students pursuing primary care health professions training in return for a commitment to provide primary health services in a Health Professional Shortage Area.

National Health Service Corps Students to Service Loan Repayment Program (NHSC S2S LRP)

Program Type: Loan Repayment
Topic: Medicine; Nursing; Oral Health
Purpose: Provide loan repayment to students in their last year of school pursuing a degree in allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, physician assistant studies, nursing, or dentistry. In exchange for loan repayment, individuals agree to provide primary health services in Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) of greatest need.

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.

Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship (NAT)

Program Type: Grant
Topic: Nursing
Purpose: Increase the supply and distribution of certified registered nurse anesthetists who are prepared and well positioned to practice independently and collaboratively within interprofessional teams and to deliver evidence-based, high-quality, and safe anesthesia and pain management services. The program aims to expand access to anesthesia services, especially to rural, urban, and tribal underserved communities nationwide.