Action
The Mullan Institute is dedicated to building a community interested and involved in advancing health workforce issues. Increased collaboration within GW strengthens our research and its policy impact, and provides opportunities to increase policy coordination and consensus among public and private decision makers.
The Social Mission Alliance (SMA) is working to create a national network of health professionals and organizations dedicated to integrating social mission into professional health education. This takes us beyond centuries-old conventions in health professions education to train providers prepared to build a system that is not only better, but fairer.
SMA hosts a comprehensive conference for health professionals committed to a more equitable health care. The broad themes of social mission include social determinants of health, community engagement, disparity reduction, diversity promotion and value-based health care. Interprofessional education and practice are essential components of a transformed health system. The Social Mission Alliance conference is a unique opportunity to learn more about the movement and how to integrate social mission into your teaching, learning and practice.
The Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Technical Assistance Center, the Workplace Change Collaborative (WCC), is a HRSA-funded center focused on supporting the Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Training Program (HPSWRTP) and Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among the Health Professional Workforce (PRMHW) grantees in their on-the-ground efforts to promote wellness and reduce burnout among health and public safety workers and trainees and create better working and learning environments.
The Mullan Health Workforce Equity Summit is an annual event that convenes stakeholders, scholars, and the public on important and edgy topics relating to health disparities, equity, and the workforce.
Education
Reversing patterns of inequity and building social mission back into the health care and health policy professions is the leading health challenge of the 21st century and is a core mission of the Mullan Institute. That mission begins with opportunity, selection, education, and training at the beginning of the health professions life cycle.
Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity (AFHE) develops global leaders who understand the foundations of health inequity and have the knowledge, skills and courage to build more equitable organizations and communities. The fellowship does so by providing intensive learning and growth experiences and connecting fellows in a cohort network as they move forward in their careers. The fellowship includes both U.S. and global fellows and addresses the continuum of local and universal issues related to health equity.
The Center for Health Pathways fosters collaboration between pathway programs, K12, colleges and universities, employers, students, alumni, and health profession education associations. The Center convenes pathway programs to enable sharing promising practices, generate solutions to challenges, and share resources to work more efficiently.
The George Washington University (GW) Residency Fellowship in Health Policy (RFHP) is an intensive health policy elective. It aims to orient residents and fellows to the fast-changing world of health policy, increase their knowledge of key health policy issues facing their community and the nation, and prepare them to be effective physician-leaders in system-based practice. The elective has two components: 1) daily classroom-based learning modules and 2) in-person site visits to take place in various sites around Washington, DC. By the end of the fellowship, students will be able to confidently analyze and discuss key aspects of U.S. health policy through participation in intensive, interactive seminars.
The Office of Minority Health (OMH) Health Leadership Impact Fellowship (HLIF) at the Mullan Institute aims to develop and support future federal leaders in public health and health equity, with a focus on recruiting individuals from groups that have been underrepresented in federal government leadership positions. The program is sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services and led in partnership with the Office of Minority Health.