What Works in Healthcare Career and Technical Education: Hospital-Education Partnerships

As part of a new Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative, the Project on Workforce is researching the impact of healthcare career and technical high schools on students' economic futures and hospital talent shortages in communities across the country.

Background

Bloomberg Philanthropies has launched a $250 million initiative to create new high schools that will graduate students directly into high-demand healthcare jobs with family-sustaining wages. This first-of-its-kind initiative pairs education and hospital systems in communities across the U.S. to develop career and technical education pathways in high-demand healthcare fields. Participating regions include Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Demopolis, Durham, Houston, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, Saint Louis, and Northeast TN.

Project Overview

The Project on Workforce is leading the multi-year research effort for the Bloomberg Philanthropies' CTE Healthcare Initiative to understand "what works" in improving students’ education and economic outcomes and addressing healthcare workforce shortages. We will be collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative student, school, and hospital data and documenting key learnings in annual research reports for high schools, colleges, hospitals, and policymakers across the United States.

Summer Fellowship

We are also hosting a summer research fellowship dedicated to this project. Learn more about our Healthcare CTE Fellowship, where fellows will research and analyze the early practices, challenges, perspectives, and structures at participating sites whose schools launched in 2024.

Project Team

• Primary Investigator: Joseph Fuller

• Directors: Kerry McKittrick and Nathalie Gazzaneo

• Lead Evaluator: Matt Snodgrass

• Project Manager: Ariel Higuchi