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Third Annual Report to the Secretary Department of Health and Human Services and to the Congress, Review and Recommendations > Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages, Title VII, Part D Public Health Service Act
 
Executive Summary

I. Introduction
II. Grant Program Characteristics
III. Review of Past History
IV. Recommendations for Statutory Change
V. Recommendations on Outcomes and Performance Measures
VI. Future Activities
VII. Committee Members and Staff
Appendix
 

VI. Future Activities

The Advisory Committee will continue to pursue recommendations that strengthen the capacity of interdisciplinary, community-based grant programs to meet health care workforce needs in America. In the next year's agenda, the Advisory Committee will consider more carefully those "Strategic Recommendations" made in this report and move toward making specific suggestions regarding future legislation and/or changes in administrative procedures. The topical areas to be explored include the following:

  • Strengthening and developing pipeline programs to encourage Kids into Health Careers
  • Devise interdisciplinary faculty development programs to prepare an interdisciplinary cadre of health professionals for an academic career in health fields experiencing a shortage of qualified faculty
  • Consideration of Chiropractic programs and Psychology programs and their expansion and inclusion within the realm of Title VII, Part D programs

The Advisory Committee recognizes the dire need to encourage workforce development in health care. It can do so in three main ways: pipeline programs, faculty development, and workforce expansion. These areas are the primary focus of the Committee for the upcoming year.

Also, the Advisory Committee will continue to examine the policy and procedural proposals provided by presenters at meetings during the previous year; many of these suggestions were offered by grantee constituency groups and address matters that could lead to significant improvement in their capacity to operate at the local level. These ideas, as well as a careful study of the matter of Federal reauthorization and appropriations for interdisciplinary, community-based programs will be a high priority in the next year.

Finally, the Advisory Committee will continue to examine issues of diversity and inequalities. In the past year, the Committee began identifying recommendations to address these issues; however, much work is still to be done. Inequalities pertaining to educational opportunities and advancement in the workplace will be areas of particular focus for the upcoming year.